Thematic Bible
Judges 10:1 (show verse)
After Abimelech, Tola son of Puah son of Dod, a man of Issachar, rose up to deliver Israel; and he [was] living at Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim.
Judges 10:2 (show verse)
And he judged Israel twenty-three years. And he died and was buried in Shamir.
Judges 10:3 (show verse)
After him Jair the Gileadite rose up, and he judged Israel twenty-two years.
Judges 10:4 (show verse)
And he had thirty sons who would ride on thirty donkeys, and they had thirty towns that [are] in the land of Gilead that they called Havvoth Jair until this day.
Judges 10:5 (show verse)
And Jair died and was buried in Kamon.
Judges 10:6 (show verse)
And again, the {Israelites} did evil in the eyes of Yahweh. They served the Baals, the Ashtaroth, the gods of Aram, Sidon, Moab, and the gods of the {Ammonites} and Philistines; they abandoned Yahweh and did not serve him.
Judges 10:7 (show verse)
And {the anger of Yahweh burned} against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of [the] Philistines and the {Ammonites}.
Judges 10:8 (show verse)
They crushed and oppressed the {Israelites} in that year; for eighteen years they [crushed] all the {Israelites} who [were] beyond the Jordan, in the land of the Amorites, which [is] in Gilead.
Judges 10:9 (show verse)
The {Ammonites} crossed the Jordan to fight also against Judah, Benjamin, and the house of Ephraim; and Israel was very distressed.
Judges 10:10 (show verse)
Then the {Israelites} cried out to Yahweh, saying, "We have sinned against you; we have abandoned our God and served the Baals."
Judges 10:11 (show verse)
And Yahweh said to the {Israelites}, "[Did I] not [deliver you] from [the] Egyptians, the Amorites, from the {Ammonites}, and from the Philistines?
Judges 10:12 (show verse)
And when [the] Sidonians, [the] Amalekites, and [the] Maonites oppressed you, you cried out to me, and I delivered you from their hand.
Judges 10:13 (show verse)
Yet you have abandoned me and served other gods. Therefore I will no longer deliver you.
Judges 10:14 (show verse)
Go and cry out to the gods whom you have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your trouble."
Judges 10:15 (show verse)
And the {Israelites} said to Yahweh, "We have sinned; {do to us accordingly as you see fit}; only please deliver us this day."
Judges 10:16 (show verse)
So they removed the foreign gods from their midst and served Yahweh; and {he could no longer bear} the misery of Israel.
Judges 10:17 (show verse)
And the {Ammonites} were summoned, and they camped in Gilead. And the {Israelites} gathered and camped at Mizpah.
Judges 10:18 (show verse)
The people, the ones commanding Gilead, {said to each other}, "Who [is] the man that will begin to fight against the {Ammonites}? He will be as head over all the inhabitants of Gilead."