Jephthah made this vow to the Lord: “If You will hand over the Ammonites to me,

At the end of two months, she returned to her father, and he kept the vow he had made about her. And she had never been intimate with a man. Now it became a custom in Israel

They said to him, “We’ve come to arrest you and hand you over to the Philistines.”

Then Samson told them, “Swear to me that you yourselves won’t kill me.”

What should we do about wives for the survivors? We’ve sworn to the Lord not to give them any of our daughters as wives.”