Post by gsmithb on Jun 13, 2014 4:36:55 GMT
The Christadelphian Expositor states," this may well have been a local custom, as there is no other reference in scripture to the custom, and it is likely that it's observance did not long continue. The Targum of Jonathan a translation by Jonathan Ben Uzziel, a student of the Great Jewish teacher Hillel, states:'and it was made a statute in Israel that no man should offer his son or daughter for a burnt offering as did Jephthah..."