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Bribing God

In Atonement, Christianity, Jesus, redemption, Reformed, Responsive Reid-ing...blogging Christian style, Salvation, soteriology, Walking in Wisdom - Gleanings from the Scriptures on May 2, 2007 at 1:52 pm

Walk in Wisdom – Gleanings from the Scripture

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Judges 11.30 – “30 And Jephthah made a vow to the LORD and said, “If you will give the Ammonites into my hand, 31 then whatever comes out from the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the Ammonites shall be the LORD’s, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering…34 Then Jephthah came to his home at Mizpah. And behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances. She was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter. 35 And as soon as he saw her, he tore his clothes and said, “Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you have become the cause of great trouble to me. For I have opened my mouth to the LORD, and I cannot take back my vow.”

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