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Caleb said, "He that will smite Kiryath-sepher, and capture it, to him
will I give Achsah, my daughter, for wife."
Would he have given his daughter to a slave or a heathen?
But God prospered him, and "Othniel, the son of Keuaz, Caleb's younger
brother, conquered it, and he gave him Achsah, his daughter, for wife."
Saul said, "And it shall be that the man who killeth him (Goliath) will
the king enrich with great riches, and his daughter will he give him."
He ran the same risk as Caleb, and God was good to him also; and David,
the son of Jesse, accomplished that for which he had prayed.
Jephtah expressed himself thus: "If thou wilt indeed deliver the
children of Amon into my hand, then shall it be that whatsoever cometh
forth out of the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace
from the children of Amon, shall belong to the Lord, and I will offer it
up for a burnt-offering."
Supposing an ass, or a dog, or a cat, had first met him upon his return,
would he have sacrificed it for a burnt-offering? God did not prosper
this risk, and the Bible says, "And Jephtah came to Mizpah unto his
house, and behold his daughter came out to meet him."
Said Rabbi Simon ben Jochai, "The requests of three persons were granted
before they had finished their prayers--Eleazer, Moses, and Solomon.
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