传道书中说不能轻易许诺。 否则后果不堪设想
Ecclesiastes 5: 1-5
1. Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Go near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.
2 Do not be quick with your mouth, do not be hasty in your heart to utter anything before God. God is in heavenand you are on earth, so let your words be few.
3 A dream comes when there are many cares, and many words mark the speech of a fool.
4 When you make a vow to God, do not delay to fulfill it. He has no pleasure in fools; fulfill your vow.
5 It is better not to make a vow than to make one and not fulfill it.
这个故事并不是传说。 士师记 11:40 calls it a yearly four-day holiday。
Judges 11:40
that each year the young women of Israel go out for four days to commemorate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite.
现在犹太人的 Tanat L’ Vat Yiftach 就是纪念耶弗他的女儿的。