Matthew Poole and continuators on Judges 11:37

37 And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains , and bewail my virginity , I, and my fellows.

Which she chose as a solitary place, and therefore fittest both for Lamentations, and for her Preparation for her approaching Calamity.

That I shall Die Childless, which was esteemed both a Curse and a Disgrace for the Israelites, Gen. 30. 23. 1 Sam. 1. 6, 7. Isa. 4. 1. Because such were excluded from that great Priviledg of increasing the Holy Seed, and contributing to the Birth of the Messiah, who was to be Born of an Israelitish Woman.

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