Judges 11:40 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴⁰ for four days every year the daughters of Israel would go out to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴⁰ that the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴⁰ That the daughters of Israel went yearly to mourn the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴⁰ that the daughters of Israel went yearly to celebrate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.

Common English Bible

⁴⁰ for four days every year Israelite daughters would go away to recount the story of the Gileadite Jephthah’s daughter.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁰ such that, after each year passes, the daughters of Israel convene as one, and they lament the daughter of Jephthah, the Gileadite, for four days.

Judges 11:40 Cross References

1 Kings 9:25

Three times a year Solomon used to offer up burnt offerings and sacrifices of well-being on the altar that he built for the Lord, offering incense before the Lord. So he completed the house.

Judges 5:11

To the sound of musicians at the watering places, there they repeat the triumphs of the Lord, the triumphs of his peasantry in Israel. Then down to the gates marched the people of the Lord.

Judges 11:39

At the end of two months, she returned to her father, who did with her according to the vow he had made. She had never slept with a man. So there arose an Israelite custom that

Judges 12:1

The men of Ephraim were called to arms, and they crossed to Zaphon and said to Jephthah, “Why did you cross over to fight against the Ammonites and did not call us to go with you? We will burn your house down over you!”

2 Chronicles 35:25

Jeremiah also uttered a lament for Josiah, and all the singing men and singing women have spoken of Josiah in their laments to this day. They made these a custom in Israel; they are recorded in the Laments.

Esther 9:27

the Jews established and accepted as a custom for themselves and their descendants and all who joined them that without fail they would continue to observe these two days every year, as it was written and at the time appointed.