Judges 10
1
And there riseth after Abimelech, to save Israel, Tola son of Puah, son of Dodo, a
man of Issachar, and he is dwelling in Shamir, in the hill-country of Ephraim,
2 and he judgeth Israel twenty and three years, and
he dieth, and is buried in Shamir. 3 And there riseth after him Jair the Gileadite,
and he judgeth Israel twenty and two years, 4 and he
hath thirty sons riding on thirty ass-colts, and they have thirty cities, (they
call them Havoth-Jair unto this day), which [are] in
the land of Gilead; 5 and Jair dieth, and is buried
in Kamon. 6 And the sons of Israel add to do the evil
thing in the eyes of Jehovah, and serve the Baalim,
and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Aram, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the
Bene-Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsake Jehovah, and have not
served Him; 7 and the anger of Jehovah burneth
against Israel, and He selleth them into the hand of
the Philistines, and into the hand of the Bene-Ammon, 8 and they crush and
oppress the sons of Israel in that year--eighteen years all the sons of Israel
[who] are beyond the Jordan, in the land of the Amorite, which [is] in Gilead.
9 And the Bene-Ammon pass over the Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against
Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim, and Israel hath great distress. 10
And the sons of Israel cry unto Jehovah, saying, `We have sinned against Thee,
even because we have forsaken our God, and serve the Baalim.'
11 And Jehovah saith unto the sons of Israel, `[Have
I] not [saved you] from the Egyptians, and from the Amorite, from the
Bene-Ammon, and from the Philistines? 12 And the Zidonians,
and Amalek, and Maon have oppressed you, and ye cry
unto Me, and I save you out of their hand; 13 and ye--ye
have forsaken Me, and serve other gods, therefore I add not to save you. 14 Go
and cry unto the gods on which ye have fixed; they--they
save you in the time of your adversity.' 15 And the sons of Israel say unto
Jehovah, `We have sinned, do Thou to us according to all that is good in Thine
eyes; only deliver us, we pray Thee, this day.' 16 And they turn aside the gods
of the stranger out of their midst, and serve Jehovah, and His soul is grieved
with the misery of Israel. 17 And the Bene-Ammon are called together, and
encamp in Gilead, and the sons of Israel are gathered together, and encamp in Mizpah. 18 And the people--heads of Gilead--say one unto
another, `Who [is] the man that doth begin to fight against the Bene-Ammon? he
is for head to all inhabitants of Gilead.'