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Judg 10:1

& Now 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.

Judg 10:2

& He judged Israel twenty-three years. Then he died and was buried in Shamir.

Judg 10:3

& After him, Jair the Gileadite arose and judged Israel twenty-two years.

Judg 10:4

& He 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.

Judg 10:5

& And Jair died and was buried in Kamon.

Judg 10:6

& Then 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.

Judg 10:7

& The 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.

Judg 10:8

& They 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.

Judg 10:9

& The sons of Ammon crossed the Jordan to fight also against Judah, Benjamin, and the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was greatly distressed.

Judg 10:10

& Then 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."

Judg 10:11

& The LORD said to the sons of Israel, "{Did I} not {deliver you} from the Egyptians, the Amorites, the sons of Ammon, and the Philistines?

Judg 10:12

& ~"Also when the Sidonians, the Amalekites and the Maonites oppressed you, you cried out to Me, and I delivered you from their hands.

Judg 10:13

& ~"Yet you have forsaken Me and served other gods; therefore I will no longer deliver you.

Judg 10:14

& ~"Go and cry out to the gods which you have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your distress."

Judg 10:15

& The sons of Israel said to the LORD, "We have sinned, do to us whatever seems good to You; only please deliver us this day."

Judg 10:16

& So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD; and He could bear the misery of Israel no longer.

Judg 10:17

& Then the sons of Ammon were summoned and they camped in Gilead. And the sons of Israel gathered together and camped in Mizpah.

Judg 10:18

& The 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."

Judges 10

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