After the time of Abimelech , a man of Issachar , Tola son of Puah , the son of Dodo , rose up to save - Israel . He lived in Shamir , in the hill country of Ephraim.
Tola judged - Israel twenty-three ... years , and when he died , he was buried in Shamir.
(Tola) was followed by Jair the Gileadite , who judged - Israel twenty-two ... years.
He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys. thirty towns - in the land of Gilead , which to this day are called vvv Havvoth-jair.
When Jair died , he was buried in Kamon.
And again the Israelites ... did evil in the sight of the LORD. They served - the Baals , - the Ashtoreths , - the gods of Aram , Sidon , and ... Moab , and the gods of the Ammonites ... - - and Philistines. Thus they forsook - the LORD and did not serve Him.
So the anger of the LORD burned against Israel , and He sold them into the hands of the Philistines ... and Ammonites ... ,
who that very year harassed and oppressed - the Israelites , ... and did so for eighteen ... years - to all the Israelites ... - on the other side of the Jordan - in Gilead , the land of the Amorites.
The Ammonites ... - also crossed the Jordan to fight against Judah , Benjamin , and the house of Ephraim , and Israel was in deep distress.
Then the Israelites ... cried out to the LORD , saying , “ We have sinned for we have indeed forsaken - our God and served - the Baals. ”
The LORD replied , - “ When the Egyptians , ... Amorites , ... Ammonites ... , ... Philistines ,
Sidonians , Amalekites , and Maonites oppressed you - and you cried out to Me , did I not save you from their hands ?
But you have forsaken Me and served other gods , so I will no longer save you.
Go and cry out to the gods - you have chosen Let them save in your time of trouble. ”
“ We have sinned , ” the Israelites ... said to the LORD. “ Deal ... ... as You see fit ; but please deliver us today ... ... ! ”
So they put away - the foreign gods from among them and served - the LORD , and He could no longer bear the misery of Israel.
Then the Ammonites ... were called to arms and camped in Gilead , and the Israelites ... assembled and camped at Mizpah.
And the rulers of Gilead said ... to one another , “ Whoever ... - will launch the attack against the Ammonites ... will be the head of all who live in Gilead. ”