Judges 11:39

11:39 After two months she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed. She died a virgin. ¹  Her tragic death gave rise to a custom in Israel. ² 

Judges 19:24

19:24 Here are my virgin daughter and my guest’s ³  concubine. I will send them out and you can abuse them and do to them whatever you like. ⁴  But don’t do such a disgraceful thing to this man!”

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¹ tn Heb “She had never known a man.” Some understand this to mean that her father committed her to a life of celibacy, but the disjunctive clause (note the vav + subject + verb pattern) more likely describes her condition at the time the vow was fulfilled. (See G. F. Moore, Judges [ICC], 302-3; C. F. Burney, Judges, 324.) She died a virgin and never experienced the joys of marriage and motherhood.

² tn Heb “There was a custom in Israel.”

³ tn Heb “his”; the referent (the visiting Levite) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn Heb “what is good in your eyes.”