Judges 10 — BBE
10Verse 1Now after Abimelech, Tola, the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, became the saviour of Israel; he was living in Shamir in the hill-country of Ephraim.Verse 2He was judge over Israel for twenty-three years; and at his death his body was put to rest in the earth in Shamir.Verse 3And after him came Jair the Gileadite, who was judge over Israel for twenty-two years.Verse 4And he had thirty sons, who went on thirty young asses; and they had thirty towns in the land of Gilead, which are named Havvoth-Jair to this day.Verse 5And at the death of Jair his body was put to rest in the earth in Kamon.Verse 6And again the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord, worshipping the Baals and Astartes, and the gods of Aram and the gods of Zidon and the gods of Moab and the gods of the children of Ammon and the gods of the Philistines; they gave up the Lord and were servants to him no longer.Verse 7And the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he gave them up into the hands of the Philistines and into the hands of the children of Ammon.Verse 8And that year the children of Israel were crushed under their yoke; for eighteen years all the children of Israel on the other side of Jordan, in the land of the Amorites which is in Gilead, were cruelly crushed down.Verse 9And the children of Ammon went over Jordan, to make war against Judah and Benjamin and the house of Ephraim; and Israel was in great trouble.Verse 10Then the children of Israel, crying out to the Lord, said, Great is our sin against you, for we have given up our God and have been servants to the Baals.Verse 11And the Lord said to the children of Israel, Were not the Egyptians and the Amorites and the children of Ammon and the PhilistinesVerse 12And the Zidonians and Amalek and Midian crushing you down, and in answer to your cry did I not give you salvation from their hands?Verse 13But, for all this, you have given me up and have been servants to other gods: so I will be your saviour no longer.Verse 14Go, send up your cry for help to the gods of your selection; let them be your saviours in the time of your trouble.Verse 15And the children of Israel said to the Lord, We are sinners; do to us whatever seems good to you: only give us salvation this day.Verse 16So they put away the strange gods from among them, and became the Lord's servants; and his soul was angry because of the sorrows of Israel.Verse 17Then the children of Ammon came together and put their army in position in Gilead. And the children of Israel came together and put their army in position in Mizpah.Verse 18And the people of Israel said to one another, Who will be the first to make an attack on the children of Ammon? We will make him head over all Gilead.