Jepthah's Daughter

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The judges were judges because they alone trusted God in Israel and put Israel to shame by that trust. As such they foreshadow Christ whose life puts us to shame by living a perfect life, trusting the Father, in the face of the same temptations we face.

The life of Christ was the light... and the light is the condemnation John 1-3

God used the strange circumstances in the narratives in judges to paint pictures of Christ hidden in the language of sensus plenior.

The story of Jepthah tells the story of Christ even ending with a reference to three days in the grave, and taking the Communion in remembrance of him. You can see hints of those without unpacking it word for word, but the picture becomes clear when the effort is put to it to unpack it.