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| | Jdg 10:1 | After Abimelech's death, Tola, the son of Puah and descendant of Dodo, came to rescue Israel. He was from the tribe of Issachar but lived in the town of Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim.
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| | Jdg 10:2 | He was Israel's judge for twenty-three years. When he died, he was buried in Shamir.
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| | Jdg 10:3 | After Tola died, a man from Gilead named Jair judged Israel for twenty-two years.
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| | Jdg 10:4 | His thirty sons rode around on thirty donkeys, and they owned thirty towns in the land of Gilead, which are still called the Towns of Jair.
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| | Jdg 10:5 | When Jair died, he was buried in Kamon.
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| | Jdg 10:6 | Again the Israelites did evil in the LORD's sight. They worshiped images of Baal and Ashtoreth, and the gods of Aram, Sidon, Moab, Ammon, and Philistia. Not only this, but they abandoned the LORD and no longer served him at all.
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| | Jdg 10:7 | So the LORD burned with anger against Israel, and he handed them over to the Philistines and the Ammonites,
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| | Jdg 10:8 | who began to oppress them that year. For eighteen years they oppressed all the Israelites east of the Jordan River in the land of the Amorites (that is, in Gilead).
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| | Jdg 10:9 | The Ammonites also crossed to the west side of the Jordan and attacked Judah, Benjamin, and Ephraim. The Israelites were in great distress.
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| | Jdg 10:10 | Finally, they cried out to the LORD, saying, "We have sinned against you because we have abandoned you as our God and have served the images of Baal."
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| | Jdg 10:11 | The LORD replied, "Did I not rescue you from the Egyptians, the Amorites, the Ammonites, the Philistines,
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| | Jdg 10:12 | the Sidonians, the Amalekites, and the Maonites? When they oppressed you, you cried out to me, and I rescued you.
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| | Jdg 10:13 | Yet you have abandoned me and served other gods. So I will not rescue you anymore.
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| | Jdg 10:14 | Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen! Let them rescue you in your hour of distress!"
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| | Jdg 10:15 | But the Israelites pleaded with the LORD and said, "We have sinned. Punish us as you see fit, only rescue us today from our enemies."
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| | Jdg 10:16 | Then the Israelites put aside their foreign gods and served the LORD. And he was grieved by their misery.
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| | Jdg 10:17 | At that time the armies of Ammon had gathered for war and were camped in Gilead, preparing to attack Israel's army at Mizpah.
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| | Jdg 10:18 | The leaders of Gilead said to each other, "Whoever attacks the Ammonites first will become ruler over all the people of Gilead."
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