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. The people put him over themselves as leader and commander, and Jephthah repeated all his terms in the presence of the Lord at Mizpah.
Judges 10:17
The Ammonites were called together, and they camped in Gilead. So the Israelites assembled and camped at Mizpah.

His daughter

Exodus 15:20
Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with their tambourines and danced.
1 Samuel 18:6
As the troops were coming back, when David was returning from killing the Philistine, the women came out from all the cities of Israel to meet King Saul, singing and dancing with tambourines, with shouts of joy, and with three-stringed instruments.
Psalm 68:25
Singers lead the way,
with musicians following;
among them are young women
playing tambourines.
Psalm 148:11
kings of the earth and all peoples,
princes and all judges of the earth,
Psalm 150:4
Praise Him with tambourine and dance;
praise Him with flute and strings.
Jeremiah 31:4
Again I will build you so that you will be rebuilt,
Virgin Israel.
You will take up your tambourines again
and go out in joyful dancing.

Neither

Zechariah 12:10
“Then I will pour out a spirit of grace and prayer on the house of David and the residents of Jerusalem, and they will look at Me whom they pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child and weep bitterly for Him as one weeps for a firstborn.
Luke 7:12
Just as He neared the gate of the town, a dead man was being carried out. He was his mother’s only son, and she was a widow. A large crowd from the city was also with her.
Luke 8:42
because he had an only daughter about 12 years old, and she was at death’s door.

While He was going, the crowds were nearly crushing Him.
Luke 9:38
Just then a man from the crowd cried out, “Teacher, I beg You to look at my son, because he’s my only child.

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