It happened at the end of two months, that she returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she was a virgin. It was a custom in Israel,
The submission of Jephthah’s daughter was as commendable as it was tragic. She did not know Leviticus 27 either, but she submitted as an obedient child (cf. Genesis 22). She too believed that the Lord had given her father the victory over the Ammonites (Judges 11:36). Here is another woman in Judges who provides a good example (cf. Achsah, Deborah, Jael). Yet she ended up weeping because of the folly of her idolatrous, self-assertive father. Note the references to weeping at the beginning (Judges 2:4), middle (Judges 11:38), and end (Judges 20:23; Judges 20:26; Judges 21:2) of this book. Of all the characters in Judges, this daughter was more like Jesus than any other in that she embodies God’s experiences. [Note: McCann, p. 88.] Notice also the parallel between the death of Jephthah’s daughter and the death of six million Jews during World War II. Both were holocausts perpetrated in the name of God that the Jews determined never to forget. [Note: Ibid., p. 89.] 