Judges 10

¹After Abimelech there arose Ruler in Israel Thola the son of Phua the uncle of Abimelech, a man of Issachar, which dwelt in Samir of mount Ephraim:

²and judged Israel three and twenty years, and died and was buried in Samir.

³After him succeeded Jair the Galaadite, who judged Israel for two and twenty years,

⁴having thirty sons sitting upon thirty ass colts, & Princes of thirty cities, which of his name were called Havoth Jair, that is, the towns of Jair, until this present day, in the Land of Galaad.

⁵And Jair died, and was buried in the place, which is called Camon.

⁶But the children of Israel joining new sins to their old, did evil in the sight of our Lord, & served the idols, Baalim and Astaroth, & the gods of Syria and of Sidon and of Moab and of the children of Ammon and of the Philisthiims: and they left our Lord, and did not serve him.

⁷Against whom our Lord being wrath, delivered them into the hands of the Philisthiims and of the children of Ammon.

⁸And they were afflicted and sore oppressed for eighteen years, all that dwelt beyond Jordan in the Land of the Amorrhite, which is in Galaad:

⁹in so much, that the children of Ammon passing over Jordan wasted Judas and Benjamin and Ephraim: and Israel was afflicted exceedingly.

¹⁰And crying to our Lord, they said: We have sinned to thee, because we have forsaken our Lord God & have served Baalim.

¹¹To whom our Lord spake: Have not the Ægyptians and the Amorrheites, and the children of Ammon and the Philisthiims,

¹²the Sidonians also and Amalech and Chanaan oppressed you, & you cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand?

¹³And yet you have forsaken me, and have worshipped strange gods: therefore I will not add to deliver you any more:

¹⁴go and invocate the gods which you have chosen: let them deliver you in the time of distress.

¹⁵And the children of Israel said to our Lord: We have sinned, render to us whatsoever pleaseth thee: only now deliver us.

¹⁶In saying which things, they threw away out of their coasts all the idols of strange gods, and served our Lord God: who sorrowed for their miseries.

¹⁷Therefore the children of Ammon crying together pitcht their tents in Galaad: against whom the children of Israel being assembled camped in Maspha.

¹⁸And the Princes of Galaad said every one to their neighbours: Who of us shall first begin to fight against the children of Ammon, shall be the Duke of the people of Galaad.