. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. Ammonites, became entitled tothe territory which the conquered peopleoccupied. 2. That the title of the Israeliteswas confirmed by a prescription of above300 years, during which none of Ammonor of Moab had ever reclaimed these lands;and,—3, as an argumentum ad hominem,he alleged that the God of Israel was as wellentitled to grant his people the lands whichthey held as was their own god Chemosh,according to their opinion, to grant to theAmmonites the lands which they now occu-pied. This admirable an
. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. Ammonites, became entitled tothe territory which the conquered peopleoccupied. 2. That the title of the Israeliteswas confirmed by a prescription of above300 years, during which none of Ammonor of Moab had ever reclaimed these lands;and,—3, as an argumentum ad hominem,he alleged that the God of Israel was as wellentitled to grant his people the lands whichthey held as was their own god Chemosh,according to their opinion, to grant to theAmmonites the lands which they now occu-pied. This admirable and well-reasonedstatement concluded with an appeal to hea-ven to decide the justice of the cause bythe event of the battle which was now in-evitable. The result was such as might be ex-pected. Jephthah defeated the Ammoniteswith great slaughter, and reduced the na-tion to subjection. But not joy to exalt and gladden hisheait, but a bitter grief to rend it deeply,awaited the victor on his return to , perhaps, that he had not, like for-mer deliverers, been expressly and publicly. ( HAi. Ill ] FROM GIDEON TO SAMSON. 397 called and appointed by God to the work he had undertaken, he had sought to propitiateheaven by a vow, that if allowed to return to his home in peace, whatsoever first came forth tomeet him should be offered as a burnt-offering to Jehovah. Jephthah had no child, save one daughter, a virgin, beautiful and young. And she, whenthe news came of his great victory, and of his return in triumph and peace, went forth at thehead of her fair companions to meet her glorious father, dancing joyously to their timbrels ashe drew nigh. Here, then, was the object of his vow—his cherished daughter—the only objectin the world which could call forth those kindly sympathies and tendernesses which lurk deepwithin even those natures which have been the most scarred and roughened in the storms oflife. The desolated father rent his clothes, crying, Alas! my daughter, th
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