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
So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and leader over them; and Jephthah spoke all his words before the LORD at Mizpah.
Judges 10:17
Then the Ammonites were called to arms, and they encamped in Gilead; and the people of Israel came together, and they encamped at Mizpah.

His daughter

Exodus 15:20
And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took the tambour in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambours and with dances.
1 Samuel 18:6
And it came to pass as they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tambours, with joy, and with triangles.
Psalm 68:25
The singers went before, the players on stringed instruments after, in the midst of maidens playing on tabrets.
Psalm 148:11
Kings of the earth and all peoples, princes and all judges of the earth;
Psalm 150:4
Praise him with the tambour and dance; praise him with stringed instruments and the pipe;
Jeremiah 31:4
I will build thee again, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel! Thou shalt again be adorned with thy tambours, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.

Neither

Zechariah 12:10
And I will pour upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of supplications; and they shall look on me whom they pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for an only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
Luke 7:12
And as he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, a dead man was carried out, the only son of his mother, and she a widow, and a very considerable crowd of the city was with her.
Luke 8:42
because he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was dying. And as he went the crowds thronged him.
Luke 9:38
And lo, a man from the crowd cried out saying, Teacher, I beseech thee look upon my son, for he is mine only child: