Psalm 137:9

[chi pan]

I don't think you know what "context" means.

If you did, you would not try to shoehorn the beliefs of ignorant iron-age goat herders into modern life.

Wake up. The coffee is brewing.

It's not shoe horning. It's reading carefully. First, he announced it to the town so it's obvious she knew. So in your story she's suicidal. Second, she said she wanted to go to the mountains to bewail her virginity. Why is that significant if she's dying? And third, it did not say and she was dead it said "and she knew no man." with this evidence it's clear she did not die. She was not going to be sacrificed, the story is about a girl who took control of her own destany. She did not want to be a housewife so she made it so she was a servant to the lord. If you paid attention to these details and knew about the laws of Levidicus, you would know this. The problem is you take a story out of culture and out of its original language and get mad when someone points out the true meaning of these Hebrew words and message of the story. Also a few other things, Jephthah very well knew the Torah. He knew human sacrifice was forbidden, sacrifice was for cleansing sin not for celebration, and that you can't sacrifice female (animals). It must be male. So your story does not make sense. What if a fly was the first to come out? He would heve to sacrifice that? No. It is refering to sacrifice as is listed in Leviticus 27. It's not a streach, but an alternate definition that IS LISTED ALREADY in the bible. And it makes more sense.