And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows .
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Gill's Exposition
And it came to pass at the end of two months she returned to her father,.... For the request she made was not a pretence to make her escape out of his hands; but having done what she proposed to do,…
Barnes' Notes
Bewail my virginity - To become a wife and a mother was the end of existence to an Israelite maiden. The premature death of Jephthah’s daughter was about to frustrate this end.
We have here Jephthah triumphing in a glorious victory, but, as an alloy to his joy, troubled and distressed by an unadvised vow.
I. Jephthah's victory was clear, and shines very brightly, both to his…
Cambridge Bible
and go down upon the mountains A slight emendation (weradhtifor weyaradhti) improves the sense: and roamor wander restlessly; cf. Jer 2:31 (-we roam at large").
bewail my virginity To be neither wife…