Judges
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1After Abimelech, Tola son of Puah son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, rose to save Israel. He lived in Shamir, in the hill country of Ephraim.
2He judged Israel twenty-three years. Then he died and was buried in Shamir.
3After him Jair the Gileadite rose, and he judged Israel twenty-two years.
4He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys, and they had thirty towns. They call them Havvoth-jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.
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Havvoth-jair is the tent-villages of Jair.
5Jair died and was buried in Kamon.
6The sons of Israel again did what was evil in the eyes of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.. They served the Local gods called by the name Baal. and the Goddess figures named together in the plural., 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. They abandoned God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. and did not serve him.
7The anger of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. burned against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the sons of Ammon.
8They shattered and crushed the sons of Israel in that year. For eighteen years they did so to all the sons of Israel who were beyond the Jordan, in the land of the Amorite, which is in Gilead.
9The sons of Ammon crossed the Jordan to fight Judah also, and Benjamin, and the house of Ephraim. Israel was in very great distress.
10The sons of Israel cried out to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., saying, We have sinned against you, because we abandoned our God and served the Local gods called by the name Baal..
11God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. said to the sons of Israel, Did I not save you from Egypt, from the Amorite, from the sons of Ammon, and from the Philistines?
12And the Sidonians, Amalek, and Maon oppressed you, and you cried out to me, and I saved you from their hand.
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The written name is Maon. This draft does not change it to another people.
13But you abandoned me and served other gods. Therefore I will not keep saving you.
14Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them save you in the time of your distress.
15The sons of Israel said to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., We have sinned. Do to us whatever is good in your eyes. Only rescue us, please, this day.
16They put away the foreign gods from their midst and served God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., and his soul grew short at the misery of Israel.
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Vatiqtsar nafsho is that his soul grew short. He could not bear Israel’s misery any longer.
17The sons of Ammon were called out and camped in Gilead. The sons of Israel gathered and camped at Mizpah.
18The people, the chiefs of Gilead, said each man to his neighbor, Who is the man who will begin to fight the sons of Ammon? He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.