Choosing Your Heroes – Jephthah

This lesson continues Mike’s series on Bible characters from Hebrews 11.

Jephthah’s vow to God seems hasty and ill-conceived, especially when it appears to cost his daughter her life. Or did it? In this lesson, Mike makes sense of Jephthah’s vow and the outcome, and illustrates why God sees Jephthah as one of the Old Testament heroes (Hebrews 11:32).

“Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty warrior. His father was Gilead; his mother was a prostitute. Gilead’s wife also bore him sons, and when they were grown up, they drove Jephthah away. ‘You are not going to get any inheritance in our family,’ they said, ‘because you are the son of another woman.’ So Jephthah fled from his brothers and settled in the land of Tob, where a gang of scoundrelsgathered around him and followed him.”

Judges 11:1-3 (NIV)