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This is a fallacy. You can't prove a prohibition from silence.

Some NT mentions of instruments.

(1 Cor 13:1 KJV) Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

(1 Cor 14:7 KJV) And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped? 8 For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?

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Moriah Ruth

(1 Cor 12:26 KJV) And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.

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Jimmie

Quite the contrary: why would anything this blatantly obvious need dwelling on.

Lets review Jephthah’s story and compare/contrast it with Abraham’s which are the mirror opposites of each other.

1. Abraham comes from a respectable family while Jephthah is illegitimate.
2. Abraham’s child is named Isaac, Jephthah’s daughter is unnamed; perhaps related to her father’s illegitimate status.
3. God is testing Abraham’s faith, Jephthah’s vow can be seen as originating from his lack of faith, thus he is testing God.
4. Abraham prepares for war as soon as he hears about Lot being taken captive- Jephthah has to be goaded by the elders to take up arms to defend his kin.
5. Abraham refuses the spoils of war- Jephthah’s desires to be set up as ruler as reward for his victory.
6. Abraham’s victory brings peace- Jephthah’s victory brings civil war.
7. Those delivered by Abraham are later destroyed by God- those delivered by Jephthah are later destroyed by Jephthah.
8. Abraham consoles his son ‘God will provide the sheep for the burnt offering’ (Gen. 22:8); Jephthah does not console his daughter but blames her and bemoans his own fate.
9. An Angel appears to save Isaac, girls appear to lament Jephthah’s daughter.
10. Abraham description has all the requisite facts to understand the story and its implications; Jephthah’s story is full of ambiguities.
11. Jephthah daughter was his only child; his vow results in the end of his family line. In the case of Abraham the result is the opposite; his agreement to sacrifice his son Isaac results in countless progeny.
12. Abraham’s child is male- Jephthah’s child is female.
13. Abraham’s child lives- Jepthah’s child dies.
14. Abraham live about 60 years after offering Isaac- Jephthah lives six years after sacrificing his daughter.
15. Abraham is buried in the cave of Machpelah- Jephthah was buried in (one of) the city’s of Gilead indicating his burial site was unknown, or as Jewish tradition would have it, his body was divided and buried in multiple cities.

In my studies I have found that both Jewish and Christian commentaries support the literal story that Jephthah killed his daughter until the rise of monasticism in the catholic church of the 1100's. Then the catholics used the story to support the monastic practice of perpetual virginity and the Jews wanted to distance themselves from the old Christian habit of using Jephthah’s daughter as a foreshadow of Christ’s death.

A few times when shaving is required. If at times you are required to shave does it follow that you should have something to shave?

(Lev 14:9 KJV) But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his , even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.

(Num 6:9 KJV) And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it.

(Num 6:18 KJV) And the Nazarite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it in the fire which is under the sacrifice of the peace offerings.

(Deu 21:12 KJV) Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;


Read more: theloveofgod.proboards.com/thread/3431/jephthah#ixzz387jnaiA0

(Jer 3:4 KJV) Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?


(Jer 3:19 KJV) But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.

alon,

In order not to derail the thread on beards could you relocate the relevent post about Jephthah to here.

For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
For he that said, Do not sacrifice your children, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no child sacrifice, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.

My point is both Jephthah and David transgressed the law. Even if your hypothesis is correct, Jephthah transgressed God’s command to be fruitful and multiply by forcing his daughter to become a perpetual virgin. The catholics use the hypothesis that Jephthah’s daughter was a perpetual virgin to support their system of convents for women. Of course they also use the “Acts of Peter and Thechla.” To force a woman to be a perpetual virgin is worse than killing her. Witness Rachael’s words.

Gen 30:1 ...; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.

Jephthah killed 42,000 fleeing Ephraimites for opposing him. Would you be the priest to stand up to him? I like to think I would be able to. But no priest was “needed” for the sacrifice of his daughter. He could have taken matters into his own hands Like Saul did. Scripture said he did it not a priest.

Jug. 11:39 And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel,

Another counter point to her being a perpetual virgin is the fact that others dedicated to service in the tabernacle were not constrained to be so. Witness Samuel who had two sons.

I am not trying to give Jephthah the short shaft. I am trying to see him for what he was. He gathered vain men unto himself. Birds of the feather tend to flock together. Did he perform mighty deeds? Yes in deed! Did he exhibit great knowledge of Scripture? For sure! Did he have failings in regard to the treatment of his daughter? Yep! I don’t try to hide his failings. Nor the fact that David killed someone to hid his sin with the man’s wife. Nor the fact that Samson consorted with hamlets. I acknowledge their sins as well as my own and try to walk closer to God.

Ex 34:6 And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.

Did Jephthah receive forgiveness for his iniquity, transgression and sin? That is what God does not only for him but us as well. Will God refuse to clear Jephthah’s guilt? God also does that for him as well as us. There we have the two groups. The saved and unsaved.

P.S.

Record of other human sacrifices by Hebrews:

(2 Ki 16:3 KJV) But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.

(2 Ki 23:10 KJV) And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.

(2 Chr 28:3 KJV) Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.


(2 Chr 33:6 KJV) And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

(Jer 32:35 KJV) And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.