Tola 1 DRA After Abimelech there arose a ruler in Israel, Thola son of Phua the uncle of Abimelech, a man of Issachar, who dwelt in Samir of mount Ephraim: BSB BSB: After the time of Abimelech, a man of Issachar, Tola son of Puah, the son of Dodo, rose up to save Israel. He lived in Shamir, in the hill country of Ephraim.
2 DRA And he judged Israel three and twenty years, and he died and was buried in Samir. BSB BSB: Tola judged Israel twenty-three years, and when he died, he was buried in Shamir.
Jair 3 DRA To him succeeded Jair the Galaadite, who judged Israel for two and twenty years. BSB BSB: Tola was followed by Jair the Gileadite, who judged Israel twenty-two years.
4 DRA Having thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and were princes of thirty cities, which from his name were called Havoth Jair, that is, the towns of Jair, until this present day in the land of Galaad. BSB BSB: He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys. And they had thirty towns in the land of Gilead, which to this day are called Havvoth-jair.
5 DRA And Jair died: and was buried in the place which was called Camon. BSB BSB: When Jair died, he was buried in Kamon.
Oppression by the Philistines and Ammonites 6 DRA But the children of Israel, adding new sins to their old ones, did evil in the sight of the Lord, and served idols, Baalim and Astaroth, and the gods of Syria and of Sidon and of Moab and of the children of Ammon and of the Philistines: and they left the Lord, and did not serve him. BSB BSB: And again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD. They served the Baals, the Ashtoreths, the gods of Aram, Sidon, and Moab, and the gods of the Ammonites and Philistines. Thus they forsook the LORD and did not serve Him.
7 DRA And the Lord being angry with them, delivered them into the hands of the Philistines and of the children of Ammon. BSB BSB: So the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He sold them into the hands of the Philistines and Ammonites,
8 DRA And they were afflicted, and grievously oppressed for eighteen years, all they that dwelt beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorrhite, who is in Galaad: BSB BSB: who that very year harassed and oppressed the Israelites, and they did so for eighteen years to all the Israelites on the other side of the Jordan in Gilead, the land of the Amorites.
9 DRA Insomuch that the children of Ammon passing over the Jordan, wasted Juda and Benjamin and Ephraim: and Israel was distressed exceedingly. BSB BSB: The Ammonites also crossed the Jordan to fight against Judah, Benjamin, and the house of Ephraim, and Israel was in deep distress.
10 DRA And they cried to the Lord, and said: We have sinned against thee, because we have forsaken the Lord our God, and have served Baalim. BSB BSB: Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, saying, “We have sinned against You, for we have indeed forsaken our God and served the Baals.”
11 DRA And the Lord said to them: Did not the Egyptians and the Amorrhites, and the children of Ammon and the Philistines, BSB BSB: The LORD replied, “When the Egyptians, Amorites, Ammonites, Philistines,
12 DRA The Sidonians also and Amalec and Chanaan oppress you, and you cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand? BSB BSB: Sidonians, Amalekites, and Maonites oppressed you and you cried out to Me, did I not save you from their hands?
13 DRA And yet you have forsaken me, and have worshipped strange gods: therefore I will deliver you no more: BSB BSB: But you have forsaken Me and served other gods, so I will no longer save you.
14 DRA Go and call upon the gods which you have chosen: let them deliver you in the time of distress. BSB BSB: Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them save you in your time of trouble.”
15 DRA And the children of Israel said to the Lord: We have sinned, do thou unto us whatsoever pleaseth thee: only deliver us this time. BSB BSB: “We have sinned,” the Israelites said to the LORD. “Deal with us as You see fit; but please deliver us today!”
16 DRA And saying these things, they cast away out of their coasts all the idols of strange gods and served the Lord their God: and he was touched with their miseries. BSB BSB: So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD, and He could no longer bear the misery of Israel.
17 DRA And the children of Ammon shouting together, pitched their tents in Galaad: against whom the children of Israel assembled themselves together and camped in Maspha. BSB BSB: Then the Ammonites were called to arms and camped in Gilead, and the Israelites assembled and camped at Mizpah.
18 DRA And the princes of Galaad said one to another: Whosoever of us shall first begin to fight against the children of Ammon, he shall be the leader of the people of Galaad. BSB BSB: And the rulers of Gilead said to one another, “Whoever will launch the attack against the Ammonites will be the head of all who live in Gilead.”
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