her, since she should die upon occasion of her father's victory,
and the liberty of her fellow citizens: she only desired her
father to give her leave, for two months, to bewail her youth
with her fellow citizens; and then she agreed, that at the
forementioned thee he might do with her according to his vow.
Accordingly, when that time was over, he sacrificed his daughter
as a burnt-offering, offering such an oblation as was neither
conformable to the law nor acceptable to God, not weighing with
himself what opinion the hearers would have of such a practice.

11. Now the tribe of Ephraim fought against him, because he did
not take them along with him in his expedition against the
Ammonites, but because he alone had the prey, and the glory of
what was done to himself. As to which he said, first, that they
were not ignorant how his kindred had fought against him, and
that when they were invited, they did not come to his assistance,
whereas they ought to have come quickly, even before they were
invited. And in the next place, that they were going to act
unjustly; for while they had not courage enough to fight their
enemies, they came hastily against their own kindred: and he
threatened them that, with God's assistance, he would inflict a
punishment upon them, unless they would grow wiser. But when he
could not persuade them, he fought with them with those forces
which he sent for out of Gilead, and he made a great slaughter
among them; and when they were beaten, he pursued them, and
seized on the passages of Jordan by a part of his army which he
had sent before, and slew about forty-two thousand of them.

12. So when Jephtha had ruled six years, he died, and was buried
in his own country, Sebee, which is a place in the land of