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So the Israelites cried to the Lord, saying, "We have sinned against you, because we have abandoned our God and have worshiped the Baals."
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And the Lord said to the Israelites, "Did I not deliver you from the Egyptians and from the Amorites, from the Ammonites and from the Philistines?
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The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, oppressed you; and you cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand.
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Yet you have abandoned me and worshiped other gods; therefore I will deliver you no more.
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Go and cry to the gods whom you have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your distress."
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And the Israelites said to the Lord, "We have sinned; do to us whatever seems good to you; but deliver us this day!"
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So they put away the foreign gods from among them and worshiped the Lord; and he could no longer bear to see Israel suffer.
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Then the Ammonites were called to arms, and they encamped in Gilead; and the Israelites came together, and they encamped at Mizpah.
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The commanders of the people of Gilead said to one another, "Who will begin the fight against the Ammonites? He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead."