Judges 10

¹After Abimelech there arose to save Israel Tola the son of Puah , son of Dodo , a man of Issachar , and he lived at Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim .

²And he judged Israel twenty-three years . Then he died and was buried at Shamir .

³After him arose Jair the Gileadite , who judged Israel twenty-two years .

⁴And he had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys , and they had thirty cities , called Havvoth-jair to this day , which are in the land of Gilead .

⁵And Jair died and was buried in Kamon .

⁶The people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth , the gods of Syria , the gods of Sidon , the gods of Moab , the gods of the Ammonites , and the gods of the Philistines . And they forsook the Lord and did not serve him.

⁷So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel , and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the Ammonites ,

⁸and they crushed and oppressed the people of Israel that year . For eighteen years they oppressed all the people of Israel who were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites , which is in Gilead .

⁹And the Ammonites crossed the Jordan to fight also against Judah and against Benjamin and against the house of Ephraim , so that Israel was severely distressed .

¹⁰And the people of Israel cried out to the Lord, saying , We have sinned against you, because we have forsaken our God and have served the Baals .

¹¹And the Lord said to the people of Israel , Did I not save you from the Egyptians and from the Amorites , from the Ammonites and from the Philistines ?

¹²The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites and the Maonites oppressed you, and you cried out to me, and I saved you out of their hand .

¹³Yet you have forsaken me and served other gods ; therefore I will save you no more .

¹⁴Go and cry out to the gods whom you have chosen ; let them save you in the time of your distress .

¹⁵And the people of Israel said to the Lord, We have sinned ; do to us whatever seems good to you. Only please deliver us this day .

¹⁶So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the Lord, and he became impatient over the misery of Israel .

¹⁷Then the Ammonites were called to arms , and they encamped in Gilead . And the people of Israel came together , and they encamped at Mizpah .

¹⁸And the people , the leaders of Gilead , said one to another , Who is the man who will begin to fight against the Ammonites ? He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead .