Jephthah came to Mizpah to his house; and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances: and she was his only child; besides her he had neither son nor daughter.
(9) Let it be supposed, for a moment, that Jephthah would have attempted to offer his daughter as a burnt-offering.  No priest would have allowed it; the people of Israel would simply not have tolerated it.