Making A Vow To The LORD Our God Is This Important
A vow made to The LORD God Almighty is this important:
me: king who said h e would sacrififce the first thing that he saw and he saw his daughter and said, paraphrasing, "I MUST SACRIFICE THAT WHICH I LOVE TO FULFILL MY VOW TO THE LORD." Find me the verses in the 1995 nasb bible that are related to this.
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The king you're referring to is Jephthah, and the story of his vow and the sacrifice of his daughter is found in Judges chapter 11.
Here are the relevant verses in the NASB 1995, paraphrasing the part you mentioned:
Judges 11:30-31:
Jephthah made a vow to the LORD and said, “If You will indeed give the sons of Ammon into my hand, then it shall be that whatever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me when I return safely from the sons of Ammon, it shall be the LORD’S, and I will offer it up as a burnt offering.”
Judges 11:34-35:
When Jephthah came to his house at Mizpah, behold, his daughter was coming out to meet him with tambourines and with dancing. Now she was his one and only child; besides her he had no son or daughter. When he saw her, he tore his clothes and said, “Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, for I have made a vow to the LORD, and I cannot take it back.”
While Jephthah doesn't explicitly say, "I MUST SACRIFICE THAT WHICH I LOVE TO FULFILL MY VOW TO THE LORD," his words and actions in verse 35 clearly convey this sentiment. He recognizes his daughter as the first to meet him and understands the tragic consequence of his vow. The text implies the immense love he had for his only child and the agonizing conflict he faced in fulfilling his promise to the Lord.
The subsequent verses detail the daughter's acceptance of her fate and the fulfillment of Jephthah's vow, though the exact nature of the "burnt offering" is a subject of some debate among biblical scholars.
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