Judges 10:1-11
Judges 10:1-11 TPT
After Abimelech died, YAHWEH raised up a man of Issachar’s tribe to deliver Israel. His name was Tola son of Puah and grandson of Dodo. He lived in the village of Shamir in the highlands of Ephraim. He was Israel’s champion-deliverer for twenty-three years; then he died and was buried at Shamir. After Tola, YAHWEH raised up a man from Gilead whose name was Jair. He was Israel’s champion-deliverer for twenty-two years. He had thirty sons, who rode on thirty donkeys, and thirty villages belonged to them. These villages are in the region of Gilead and are called Jair’s Villages to this day. Jair died and was buried at Kamon. The Israelites again did evil in the sight of YAHWEH, worshiping the Baals and the Ashtaroths, the gods of Aram, Sidon, Moab, and Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines. Because Israel entirely abandoned the worship of YAHWEH, YAHWEH became furious with Israel, and he handed them over to the oppression of the Philistines and the Ammonites. They crushed and oppressed all the Israelites for eighteen years. They ruled over all the Israelites living east of the Jordan in Gilead, in the land of the Amorites. The Ammonites also crossed the Jordan and fought against the tribes of Judah, Benjamin, and Ephraim, leaving Israel distressed. Then the Israelites desperately cried out to YAHWEH, “We have sinned against you because we have abandoned our God and have worshiped the Baals.” YAHWEH answered them, “Did I not rescue you in the past from the power of the Egyptians, the Amorites, the Ammonites, the Philistines
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