After Abimelech, Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, arose to save Israel. He lived in Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim. Jdg 2:16Jdg 3:9Jos 15:48 He judged Israel twenty-three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.
After him Jair, the Gileadite, arose. He judged Israel twenty-two years. Num 32:29Gen 31:48 He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkey colts. They had thirty cities, which are called Havvoth Jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead. Num 32:41Deu 3:14Jdg 12:14Jdg 5:10 Jair died, and was buried in Kamon.
The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, and served the Baals, the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines. They abandoned the LORD, and didn’t serve him. 2Ki 23:131Ki 11:331Ki 11:51Ki 11:7Psa 106:362Ki 17:16Jdg 16:23Jer 2:13 The LORD’s anger burned against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the children of Ammon. Jdg 2:141Sa 12:9-10Deu 32:16-22Deu 29:20-28Deu 31:16-18Isa 50:1Jdg 4:2Nam 1:2 They troubled and oppressed the children of Israel that year. For eighteen years they oppressed all the children of Israel that were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead. Isa 30:131Th 5:3Jdg 10:5 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 very distressed. 1Sa 28:152Ch 14:92Ch 15:52Ch 20:1-2Deu 28:65Jdg 3:12-13Jdg 6:3-5 The children of Israel cried to the LORD, saying, “We have sinned against you, even because we have forsaken our God, and have served the Baals.” 1Sa 12:10Psa 107:28Psa 107:13Psa 107:19Psa 106:43-44Jdg 3:9
The LORD 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? Exo 14:30Jdg 3:31Num 21:21-251Sa 12:8Heb 11:29Jdg 2:1-3Jdg 3:11-15Neh 9:9-11 The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, oppressed you; and you cried to me, and I saved you out of their hand. Jdg 6:32Ch 26:6-7Jdg 5:19-31Psa 106:42-43 Yet you have forsaken me and served other gods. Therefore I will save you no more. Jer 2:131Ch 28:9Jdg 2:12Jon 2:8Deu 32:15 Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen. Let them save you in the time of your distress!” Deu 32:37-38Jer 2:28Pro 1:25-27Deu 32:26-28Isa 10:31Ki 18:27-282Ki 3:13
The children of Israel said to the LORD, “We have sinned! Do to us whatever seems good to you; only deliver us, please, today.” 1Sa 3:182Sa 15:261Jn 1:8-102Sa 24:14Jos 9:25Pro 28:132Sa 10:12Jon 3:9 They put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel. Isa 63:9Psa 106:44-45Hos 11:8Jer 31:202Ch 15:8Deu 32:36Eph 4:32Ezk 18:30-32
Then the children of Ammon were gathered together and encamped in Gilead. The children of Israel assembled themselves together and encamped in Mizpah. Jdg 11:29Gen 31:49Jdg 11:11 The people, the princes of Gilead, said to one another, “Who is the man who will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.” Jdg 11:111Sa 17:25Isa 3:1-8Isa 34:12Jdg 1:1Jdg 11:5-8Jdg 12:7