| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Now after Abimelech died, Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, arose to save Israel; and he lived in Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2He judged Israel twenty-three years. Then he died and was buried in Shamir. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3After him, Jair the Gileadite arose and judged Israel twenty-two years. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys, and they had thirty cities in the land of Gilead that are called Havvoth-jair to this day. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5And Jair died and was buried in Kamon. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Then the sons of Israel again did evil in the sight of the LORD, served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, the gods of Aram, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the sons of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines; thus they forsook the LORD and did not serve Him. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7The anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He sold them into the hands of the Philistines and into the hands of the sons of Ammon. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8They afflicted and crushed the sons of Israel that year; for eighteen years they afflicted all the sons of Israel who were beyond the Jordan in Gilead in the land of the Amorites. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9The sons of Ammon crossed the Jordan to fight also against Judah, Benjamin, and the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was greatly distressed. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Then the sons of Israel cried out to the LORD, saying, "We have sinned against You, for indeed, we have forsaken our God and served the Baals." |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11The LORD said to the sons of Israel, "Did I not deliver you from the Egyptians, the Amorites, the sons of Ammon, and the Philistines? |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12"Also when the Sidonians, the Amalekites and the Maonites oppressed you, you cried out to Me, and I delivered you from their hands. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"Yet you have forsaken Me and served other gods; therefore I will no longer deliver you. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14"Go and cry out to the gods which you have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your distress." |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15The sons of Israel said to the LORD, "We have sinned, do to us whatever seems good to You; only please deliver us this day." |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD; and He could bear the misery of Israel no longer. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Then the sons of Ammon were summoned and they camped in Gilead. And the sons of Israel gathered together and camped in Mizpah. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18The people, the leaders of Gilead, said to one another, "Who is the man who will begin to fight against the sons of Ammon? He shall become head over all the inhabitants of Gilead." |
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