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Now afterAbimelech died, Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, arose to saveIsrael; and he lived in Shamir in the hillcountry of Ephraim.
6
Then the sons of Israelagaindidevil in the sight of the LORD, served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, the gods of Aram, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the sons of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines; thus they forsook the LORD and did not serve Him.
8
They afflicted and crushed the sons of Israel that year; for eighteen*years they afflicted all the sons of Israelwho were beyond the Jordan in Gilead in the land of the Amorites.
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The people, the leaders of Gilead, said to oneanother, "Who is the manwho will begin to fight against the sons of Ammon? He shall becomehead over all the inhabitants of Gilead."