Judges 11 recorded a troubling passage of the Old Testament. It examines the vow made by one of Israel judges, Jephthah. Jephthah vowed to God that if the Lord would grant him victory over the evil Ammonites, the first that came out to greet him upon his return would be offered as a burnt sacrifice to Jehovah. When Jephthah arrived home, he was greeted by his daughter. He was devastated. Jephthah eventually fulfilled his vow to God. In comparing the story in Genesis 22, Abraham sacrifice Isaac to God but was stopped. However, with the vow that Jephthah gave to God to sacrifice the first person he sees, God does not stop him from sacrificing his daughter. My interpretation of this is that even though it was Jephthah’s only child, he gave
