Judges 10 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Oppression of Philistines and Ammonites

Jdg 10:1After Abim'elech there arose to deliver Israel Tola the son of Pu'ah, son of Dodo, a man of Is'sachar; and he lived at Shamir in the hill country of E'phraim.

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Jdg 10:2And he judged Israel twenty-three years. Then he died, and was buried at Shamir.

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Jdg 10:3After him arose Ja'ir the Gileadite, who judged Israel twenty-two years.

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Jdg 10:4And he had thirty sons who rode on thirty asses; and they had thirty cities, called Hav'voth-ja'ir to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.

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Jdg 10:5And Ja'ir died, and was buried in Kamon.

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Jdg 10:6And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and served the Ba'als and the Ash'taroth, 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.

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Jdg 10:7And 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,

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Jdg 10:8and they crushed and oppressed the children of Israel that year. For eighteen years they oppressed all the people of Israel that were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.

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Jdg 10:9And the Ammonites crossed the Jordan to fight also against Judah and against Benjamin and against the house of E'phraim; so that Israel was sorely distressed.

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Jdg 10:10And the people of Israel cried to the LORD, saying, "We have sinned against thee, because we have forsaken our God and have served the Ba'als."

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Jdg 10:11And the LORD said to the people of Israel, "Did I not deliver you from the Egyptians and from the Amorites, from the Ammonites and from the Philistines?

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Jdg 10:12The Sido'nians also, and the Amal'ekites, and the Ma'onites, oppressed you; and you cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand.

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Jdg 10:13Yet you have forsaken me and served other gods; therefore I will deliver you no more.

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Jdg 10:14Go and cry to the gods whom you have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your distress."

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Jdg 10:15And the people of Israel said to the LORD, "We have sinned; do to us whatever seems good to thee; only deliver us, we pray thee, this day."

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Jdg 10:16So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD; and he became indignant over the misery of Israel.

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Jdg 10:17Then the Ammonites were called to arms, and they encamped in Gilead; and the people of Israel came together, and they encamped at Mizpah.

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Jdg 10:18And the people, the leaders of Gilead, said one to another, "Who is the man that will begin to fight against the Ammonites? He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead."

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Judges 10 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Oppression of Philistines and Ammonites

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