This means that we should interpret offering her up as a burnt offering symbolically to refer to

like devoting her to the service of the temple or something like that.

So I'm inclined to think that the fact that in verse 40, the daughters of Israel went year by year

to lament the daughter of Jephtha the Gileadat four days in the year.

This is a sorrow that fits

a young virgin girl's death more than a sorrow that fits a young virgin girl's devotion to the Lord.

All right. Welcome to episode 77 of Bible Talk a podcast brought to you by Nine Marks.

Nine Marks exists to help pastors build healthy churches for more.

You can visit Nine Marks.org.

My name is Alex Duke and with me are my two friends.

Sam Amati.

Jim Hamilton.

All right.

So, guys, last week we chatted about Israel's anti-King Abimelech.

All right.

That was Judges 9 and 10. This week, for the second time, after we have already recorded this episode once, and something weird happened.

It's going to be better this time. Yes, it'll be better this time. The Lord protected us from our

error, I assume. This week we're going to do Judges 11 and 12. So Sam, remind us, where did we leave Israel at the

end of Judges 10? And kind of where are we at in this pattern that we have begun every

episode in this book with? Sure. Let's remember the cycle of the judges that we learn in 216 to the

end of the chapter. The people rebel. Yahweh hands them over to their enemies. They cry out for

mercy. Yahweh raises up a judge and delivers them, gives Israel rest. Then the judge dies. The people rebel. Yahweh hands them over to their enemies. They cry out for mercy. Yahweh raises up a judge and delivers them, gives Israel rest.

...