Judges 10

Now after Abimelech, Tola, the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, arose to save Israel. And he {was} dwelling in Shamir, in the hill country of Ephraim.

And he judged Israel 23 years. Then he died and was buried in Shamir. \*

And after him Jair the Gileadite arose. And he judged Israel 22 years.

And it was to him 30 sons, riding on 30 donkeys. And 30 cities {were} to them, they call them Havvoth Jair to this day, which {are} in the land of Gilead.

Then Jair died, and he was buried in Kamon. \*

Then the sons of Israel resumed to do evil in the eyes of God. And they served the Baals and the Ashtoreths and the gods of Aram and the gods of Sidon and the gods of Moab and the gods of the sons of Ammon and the gods of the Philistines. And they forsook God and did not serve him.

Then the nose of God burned against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the sons of Ammon. \*

And they shattered and crushed the sons of Israel in that year. {For} 18 years, all the sons of Israel who {were} on the other side of the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which {is} in Gilead.

Then the sons of Ammon crossed the Jordan to fight also with Judah and with Benjamin and with the house of Ephraim, and it narrowed to Israel greatly. \*

Then the sons of Israel cried out to God, saying, “We have sinned against you, for we have forsaken our God and served the Baals.”

Then God said to the sons of Israel, “{Was it} not from the Egyptians and from the Amorite and from the sons of Ammon and from the Philistines

and the Sidonians and Amalek and Maon, {when} they oppressed you, that you cried out to me and I saved you from their hand? \*

Yet you have forsaken me and served other gods. Therefore I will not continue to save you.

Go and cry out to the gods upon whom you have chosen. Let them save you in the time of your distress.” \*

But the sons of Israel said to God, “We have sinned. You do to us according to all of the good in your eyes. Only please deliver us this day.”

And they removed the foreign gods from the midst of them, and they served God. And his soul wore out with the trouble of Israel. \*

Now the sons of Ammon were summoned, and they encamped in Gilead. So the sons of Israel gathered themselves, and they encamped at Mizpah.

Then the people, the leaders of Gilead, said, a man to his fellow, “Who {is} the man who will begin to fight with the sons of Ammon? He will be the head for all of the dwellers of Gilead.” \*