* did with.
   That Jephthah did not sacrifice his daughter, but consecrated
   her to the service of God in the tabernacle, in a state of
   celibacy, will we imagine be evident from the following
   consideration:--1.  Human sacrifices were ever an abomination
   to Jehovah, of which Jephthah could not be ignorant; and
   consequently he would neither have made such a vow, nor
   carried it into execution.  2.  We are expressly told (ver.
   29) that Jephthah was under the influence of the Spirit of
   God, which would effectually prevent him from embruing his
   hands in the blood of his own child.  3.  He had it in his
   power to redeem his daughter, (Le 27:4;) and surely his only
   child must have been of more value than thirty shekles.  4.
   Besides, who was to perform the horrid rite?  Not Jephthah
   himself, who was no priest, and in whom it would have been
   most unnatural and inhuman; and the priests would certainly
   have dissuaded him from it.  5.  The sacred historian informs
   us, that she bewailed her virginity, that she knew no man, and
   that the Israelitish women went yearly to comfort or lament
   with her.

  31  Le 27:28,29  De 12:31  Isa 66:3 
 * to his vow.
  1Sa 1:11,22,24,28  2:18 
 * custom.  or, ordinance.