2
And he judged Israel twenty-three years. Then he died and was buried at Shamir.
3
After him arose Jair the Gileadite, who judged Israel twenty-two years.
4
And he had thirty sons who
1rode on thirty donkeys, and they had thirty cities, called Havvoth-jair to this day,
2which are in the land of Gilead.
5
And Jair died and was buried in Kamon.
Further Disobedience and Oppression
6 3The people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD
4and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria,
5the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines. And they
6forsook the LORD and did not serve him.
7
So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and
7he sold them into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the Ammonites,
8
and they crushed and oppressed the people of Israel that year. For eighteen years they oppressed all the people of Israel who were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.
9
And the Ammonites crossed the Jordan to fight also against Judah and against Benjamin and against the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was severely distressed.
10
And the people of Israel
8cried out to the LORD, saying, "We have sinned against you, because
9we have forsaken our God and have served the Baals."
11
And the LORD said to the people of Israel, "Did I not save you
10from the Egyptians and
11from the Amorites,
12from the Ammonites and
13from the Philistines?
12
The Sidonians also, and
14the Amalekites and the Maonites oppressed you, and you cried out to me, and I
15saved you out of their hand.