Judges 11:34

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Then Jephthah came to his home at Mizpah, and there was his daughter coming out to meet him with timbrels and with dancing. She was his only child; he had no son or daughter except her.

Cross References

2 Samuel 6:14

David danced before the Lord with all his might; David was girded with a linen ephod.

Psalm 150:4

Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe!

Psalm 68:25

the singers in front, the musicians last, between them young women playing tambourines:

Exodus 15:20

Then the prophet Miriam, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dancing.

Jeremiah 31:13

Then shall the young women rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old shall be merry. I will turn their mourning into joy; I will comfort them and give them gladness for sorrow.

Jeremiah 31:4

Again I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin Israel! Again you shall adorn yourself with your tambourines and go forth in the dance of the merrymakers.

Zechariah 12:10

And I will pour out a spirit of compassion and supplication on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem so that, when they look on the one whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him as one mourns for an only child and weep bitterly over him as one weeps over a firstborn.

Luke 7:12

As he approached the gate of the town, a man who had died was being carried out. He was his mother’s only son, and she was a widow, and with her was a large crowd from the town.

Luke 8:42

for he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was dying. As he went, the crowds pressed in on him.

Luke 9:38

Just then a man from the crowd shouted, “Teacher, I beg you to look at my son; he is my only child.

Joshua 18:26

Mizpeh, Chephirah, Mozah,

Judges 10:17

Then the Ammonites were called to arms, and they encamped in Gilead, and the Israelites came together, and they encamped at Mizpah.

Judges 11:11

So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and commander over them, and Jephthah spoke all his words before the Lord at Mizpah.

Judges 20:1

Then all the Israelites came out, from Dan to Beer-sheba, including the land of Gilead, and the congregation assembled in one body before the Lord at Mizpah.

Judges 21:21

and watch; when the young women of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come out of the vineyards and each of you carry off a wife for himself from the young women of Shiloh and go to the land of Benjamin.