1After 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:

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Judges 2:16, Judges 2:16, Joshua 15:48, Judges 3:9, Joshua 15:48

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

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

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Numbers 32:29, Genesis 31:48, Numbers 32:29, Genesis 31:48

4Having 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.

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Numbers 32:41, Numbers 32:41, Judges 12:14, Judges 5:10, Deuteronomy 3:14

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

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6But 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.

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1 Kings 11:5, 2 Kings 23:13, 1 Kings 11:7, 1 Kings 11:33, 1 Kings 11:5

7And the Lord being angry with them, delivered them into the hands of the Philistines, and of the children of Ammon.

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Judges 2:14, Judges 2:14, Deuteronomy 32:16, Deuteronomy 32:22, 1 Samuel 12:9

8And 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:

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1 Thessalonians 5:3, Isaiah 30:13, 1 Thessalonians 5:3, Isaiah 30:13, Judges 10:5

9Insomuch that the children of Ammon, passing over the Jordan, wasted Juda, and Benjamin, and Ephraim: and Israel was distressed exceedingly.

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2 Chronicles 14:9, Judges 3:12, Judges 3:13, 1 Samuel 28:15, Judges 6:3

10And they cried to the Lord, and said, We have sinned against thee, because we have forsaken the Lord our God, and have served Baalim.

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1 Samuel 12:10, 1 Samuel 12:10, Psalms 107:28, Psalms 107:28, Psalms 107:19

11And the Lord said to them: Did not the Egyptians, and the Amorrhites, and the children of Ammon, and the Philistines,

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Exodus 14:30, Numbers 21:21, Numbers 21:25, Judges 3:31, Exodus 14:30

12The Sidonians also, and Amalec, and Chanaan, oppress you, and you cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand?

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Judges 6:3, Judges 6:3, Psalms 106:42, Psalms 106:43, Judges 5:19

13And yet you have forsaken me, and have worshipped strange gods: therefore I will deliver you no more:

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Jeremiah 2:13, Jeremiah 2:13, Judges 2:12, 1 Chronicles 28:9, Judges 2:12

14Go, and call upon the gods which you have chosen: let them deliver you in the time of distress.

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Jeremiah 2:28, Deuteronomy 32:37, Deuteronomy 32:38, Jeremiah 2:28, Deuteronomy 32:37

15And the children of Israel said to the Lord: We have sinned, do thou unto us whatsoever pleaseth thee: only deliver us this time.

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1 Samuel 3:18, 1 Samuel 3:18, 2 Samuel 15:26, 2 Samuel 15:26, 2 Samuel 24:14

16And 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.

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Isaiah 63:9, Isaiah 63:9, Psalms 106:44, Psalms 106:45, Psalms 106:44

17And the children of Ammon shouting together, pitched their tents in Galaad: against whom the children of Israel assembled themselves together, and camped in Maspha.

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Judges 11:29, Judges 11:29, Judges 11:11, Genesis 31:49, Judges 11:11

18And 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.

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Judges 11:11, Judges 11:11, Isaiah 3:1, Isaiah 3:8, Judges 11:5