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>The lesson of Jephthah was the makings of rash vows
Yes, but his daughter didn't have anything to do with that, so why should she be punished?
>age of darkness where "everyone did what was right in their eyes"
As far as I can tell that phrase appears several chapters later, and it isn't saying they were all immoral. It's just saying they didn't have a king, so it was a bit of an anararchy. From Judges 17, "In those days there was no king in Israel; all the people did what was right in their own eyes."
>There's deliberate silence from God when Jephthah fulfilled his vow in the death of his daughter, he didn't go "well done" or "I accept"
It says the spirit of the Lord was on Jephthah when he made his vow, so God was surely present to him (more present than usual, however that works for an omnipresent being). And Jephthah and his daughter both thought they were doing what was right by the Lord in killing her. It seems very strange given all that that God would just remain silent if he were opposed it.

Interestingly, as far as I can tell God never really explicitly condemns child sacrifice (to Moloch yes, but to himself?). He did command Abraham to sacrifice his child but then gave him a lamb to sacrifice instead, and that would've been a great opportunity for God to say "Hey, by the way, this is universally a bad thing, and I never want anyone to do it." but he didn't.

In fact, he may have actually required child sacrifice himself at one point: https://www.thetorah.com/article/giving-your-firstborn-son-to-god
>the simplest interpretation of Exodus 22:28 is that it requires the slaughter of all firstborn sons. This is the view taken by many modern biblical scholars
>There are also several narrative texts that seem to portray child sacrifice as a legitimate practice, or at least do not explicitly condemn it
>Ezekiel 20:25-26 appears to understand the law as mandating the ritual slaughter of firstborn sons.

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