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		Judg 10:1 After Abimelech died, Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, arose to save Israel; and he lived in Shamir, in the hill country of Ephraim.
		Judg 10:2 Tola judged Israel for twenty-three years; then he died and was buried in Shamir.
		Judg 10:3 ¶ After him, Jair the Gileadite arose, and he judged Israel for twenty-two years.
		Judg 10:4 He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys, and they had thirty towns in the land of Gilead that are called Havvoth-jair (towns of Jair) to this day.
		Judg 10:5 And Jair died and was buried in Kamon.
		Judg 10:6 ¶ Then the Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD; they served the Baals, the Ashtaroth (female deities), the gods of Aram (Syria), the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines. They abandoned the LORD and did not serve Him.
		Judg 10:7 So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and He sold them into the hands of the Philistines and the Ammonites,
		Judg 10:8 and they oppressed and crushed Israel that year. For eighteen years they oppressed all the Israelites who were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.
		Judg 10:9 The Ammonites crossed the Jordan to fight against Judah, Benjamin, and the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was greatly distressed.
		Judg 10:10 ¶ Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD [for help], saying, "We have sinned against You, because we have abandoned (rejected) our God and have served the Baals."
		Judg 10:11 The LORD said to the Israelites, "Did I not rescue you from the Egyptians, the Amorites, the Ammonites, and the Philistines?
		Judg 10:12 "Also when the Sidonians, the Amalekites, and the Maonites oppressed and crushed you, you cried out to Me, and I rescued you from their hands.
		Judg 10:13 "Yet you have abandoned (rejected) Me and served other gods; therefore I will no longer rescue you.
		Judg 10:14 "Go, cry out to the gods you have chosen; let them rescue you in your time of distress."
		Judg 10:15 The Israelites said to the LORD, "We have sinned, do to us whatever seems good to You; only please rescue us this day."
		Judg 10:16 So they removed the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD; and He could bear the misery of Israel no longer.
		Judg 10:17 ¶ Then the Ammonites were assembled together and they camped in Gilead. And the sons of Israel assembled and camped at Mizpah.
		Judg 10:18 The people, the leaders of Gilead (Israel) said to one another, "Who is the man who will begin to fight against the Ammonites? He shall become head over all the inhabitants of Gilead."

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