New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].
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1 After Abimelech, Tola son of Pua, son of Dodo, a man of Issachar
who lived in Shamir in the hill-country of Ephraim, came in his turn
to deliver Israel.
2 He was judge over Israel for twenty-three years, and
when he died he was buried in Shamir.
3 After him came Jair the Gileadite; he was judge over Israel for
twenty-two years.
4 He had thirty sons, who rode thirty asses; they had
thirty towns in the land of Gilead, which to this day are called
Havvoth-jair. note
5 When Jair died, he was buried in Kamon.
6 Once more the Israelites did what was wrong in the eyes of the Lord,
worshipping the Baalim and the Ashtaroth, the deities of Aram and of
Sidon and of Moab, of the Ammonites and of the Philistines. They
forsook the Lord and did not worship him.
7 The Lord was angry with
Israel,
8 and he sold them to the Philistines and the Ammonites, who note
for eighteen years harassed and oppressed the Israelites who lived
beyond the Jordan in the Amorite country in Gilead.
9 Then the
Ammonites crossed the Jordan to attack Judah, Benjamin, and
Ephraim, so that Israel was in great distress.
10 The Israelites cried to the
Lord for help and said, ‘We have sinned against thee; we have forsaken
our God and worshipped the Baalim.’
11 And the Lord said to the
Israelites, ‘The Egyptians, the Amorites, the Ammonites, the Philistines;
12 the Sidonians too and the Amalekites and the Midianites note—all
these oppressed you and you cried to me for help; and did not I deliver
you?
13 But you forsook me and worshipped other gods; therefore I will
deliver you no more.
14 Go and cry for help to the gods you have chosen,
and let them save you in the day of your distress.’
15 But the Israelites
said to the Lord, ‘We have sinned. Deal with us as thou wilt; only
save us this day, we implore thee.’
16 They banished the foreign gods and
worshipped the Lord; and he could endure no longer to see the plight
of Israel.
17 Then the Ammonites were called to arms, and they encamped in
Gilead, while the Israelites assembled and encamped in Mizpah.
18 The people of Gilead and their chief men said to one another, ‘If any
man will strike the first blow at the Ammonites, he shall be lord over the
inhabitants of Gilead.’
New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].
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