of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines;
and they forsook Yahweh, and didn't serve him.
010:007 The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he sold
them into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand
of the children of Ammon.
010:008 They vexed and oppressed the children of Israel that year:
eighteen years [oppressed they] all the children of Israel
that were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites,
which is in Gilead.
010:009 The children of Ammon passed over the Jordan to fight also
against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house
of Ephraim; so that Israel was sore distressed.
010:010 The children of Israel cried to Yahweh, saying, We have
sinned against you, even because we have forsaken our God,
and have served the Baals.
010:011 Yahweh said to the children of Israel, Didn't I save you from
the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon,
and from the Philistines?
010:012 The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites,
did oppress you; and you cried to me, and I saved you out
of their hand.
010:013 Yet you have forsaken me, and served other gods:
therefore I will save you no more.
010:014 Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen; let them save
you in the time of your distress.
010:015 The children of Israel said to Yahweh, We have sinned:
do you to us whatever seems good to you; only deliver us,
we pray you, this day.
010:016 They put away the foreign gods from among them, and served Yahweh;
and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
010:017 Then the children of Ammon were gathered together, and encamped
in Gilead. The children of Israel assembled themselves together,
and encamped in Mizpah.
010:018 The people, the princes of Gilead, said one to another,
What man is he who will begin to fight against the children
of Ammon? he shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.
011:001 Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor,
and he was the son of a prostitute: and Gilead became
the father of Jephthah.
011:002 Gilead's wife bore him sons; and when his wife's sons grew up,
they drove out Jephthah, and said to him, You shall not inherit
in our father's house; for you are the son of another woman.
011:003 Then Jephthah fled from his brothers, and lived in the land of Tob:
and there were gathered vain fellows to Jephthah, and they
went out with him.
011:004 It happened after a while, that the children of Ammon made
war against Israel.
011:005 It was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel,
the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah out of the land of Tob;
011:006 and they said to Jephthah, Come and be our chief, that we
may fight with the children of Ammon.
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