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Tola

After the time of Abimelek, a man of Issachar named Tola son of Puah, the son of Dodo, rose to save Israel. He lived in Shamir, in the hill country of Ephraim.

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Tola Leads Israel

And after Abimelech, there rose up to save Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir on mount Ephraim.

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He leda Israel twenty-three years; then he died, and was buried in Shamir.

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And he judged Israel twenty-three years; and he died, and was buried in Shamir.

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Jair

He was followed by Jair of Gilead, who led Israel twenty-two years.

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Jair Leads Israel

And after him rose up Jair, a Gileadite; and he judged Israel twenty-two years.

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He had thirty sons, who rode thirty donkeys. They controlled thirty towns in Gilead, which to this day are called Havvoth Jair.b

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And he had thirty sons who rode on thirty ass colts; and they had thirty cities, which are called the villages of Jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.

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When Jair died, he was buried in Kamon.

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And Jair died, and was buried in Kamon.

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Jephthah

Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord. They served the Baals and the Ashtoreths, and the gods of Aram, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites and the gods of the Philistines. And because the Israelites forsook the Lord and no longer served him,

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Philistine and Ammonite Oppression

And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of Jehovah, and served the Baals, and the Ashtoreths, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines; and they forsook Jehovah, and served him not.

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he became angry with them. He sold them into the hands of the Philistines and the Ammonites,

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And the anger of Jehovah was hot against Israel, and he sold him into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the children of Ammon.

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who that year shattered and crushed them. For eighteen years they oppressed all the Israelites on the east side of the Jordan in Gilead, the land of the Amorites.

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And they oppressed and crushed the children of Israel in that year; eighteen years [they oppressed] all the children of Israel that were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.

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The Ammonites also crossed the Jordan to fight against Judah, Benjamin and Ephraim; Israel was in great distress.

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And the children of Ammon passed over the Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; and Israel was greatly distressed.

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Then the Israelites cried out to the Lord, “We have sinned against you, forsaking our God and serving the Baals.”

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And the children of Israel cried to Jehovah, saying, We have sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our God, and also served the Baals.

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The Lord replied, “When the Egyptians, the Amorites, the Ammonites, the Philistines,

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And Jehovah said to the children of Israel, Did I not [save you] from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?

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the Sidonians, the Amalekites and the Maonitesc oppressed you and you cried to me for help, did I not save you from their hands?

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The Zidonians also, and Amalek and Maon oppressed you, and ye cried to me, and I saved you out of their hand.

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But you have forsaken me and served other gods, so I will no longer save you.

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But ye have forsaken me, and served other gods; therefore I will save you no more.

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Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them save you when you are in trouble!”

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Go and cry to the gods that ye have chosen: let them save you in the time of your trouble.

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But the Israelites said to the Lord, “We have sinned. Do with us whatever you think best, but please rescue us now.”

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And the children of Israel said to Jehovah, We have sinned. Do thou unto us according to all that is good in thy sight; only deliver us, we pray thee, this day.

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Then they got rid of the foreign gods among them and served the Lord. And he could bear Israel’s misery no longer.

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And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served Jehovah; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

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When the Ammonites were called to arms and camped in Gilead, the Israelites assembled and camped at Mizpah.

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And the children of Ammon were called together and encamped in Gilead; and the children of Israel gathered together and encamped in Mizpeh.

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The leaders of the people of Gilead said to each other, “Whoever will take the lead in attacking the Ammonites will be head over all who live in Gilead.”

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And the people, the chief men of Gilead, said one to another, Who is the man that will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? he shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.

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Judges 10

Judges 10