Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.

Bible References

Mizpeh

Judges 11:11
Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them; and Jephthah spoke all his words before the Lord at Mizpah.
Judges 10:17
Then the sons of Ammon were summoned and they camped in Gilead. And the sons of Israel gathered together and camped in Mizpah.

His daughter

Exodus 15:20
Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took the timbrel in her hand, and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dancing.
1 Samuel 18:6
It happened as they were coming, when David returned from killing the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul, with tambourines, with joy and with musical instruments.
Psalm 68:25
The singers went on, the musicians after them,
In the midst of the maidens beating tambourines.
Psalm 148:11
Kings of the earth and all peoples;
Princes and all judges of the earth;
Psalm 150:4
Praise Him with timbrel and dancing;
Praise Him with stringed instruments and pipe.
Jeremiah 31:4
Again I will build you and you will be rebuilt,
O virgin of Israel!
Again you will take up your tambourines,
And go forth to the dances of the merrymakers.

Neither

Zechariah 12:10
“I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn.
Luke 7:12
Now as He approached the gate of the city, a dead man was being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow; and a sizeable crowd from the city was with her.
Luke 8:42
for he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was dying. But as He went, the crowds were pressing against Him.
Luke 9:38
And a man from the crowd shouted, saying, “Teacher, I beg You to look at my son, for he is my only boy,