1After Abimelech there arose to save Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he lived in Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim.

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

2He judged Israel twenty-three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.

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3After him arose Jair, the Gileadite; and he judged Israel twenty-two years.

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

4He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkey colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havvoth Jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.

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

5Jair died, and was buried in Kamon.

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6The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, and served the Baals, and the Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Sidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines; and they forsook 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

7The anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand 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

8They troubled and oppressed the children of Israel that year. Eighteen years they oppressed all the children of Israel that were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.

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

9The 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.

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

10The 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."

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

11The Lord said to the children of Israel, "Did I not save you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from 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 the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress you; and you cried to me, and I saved you out of their hand.

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

13Yet you have forsaken me, and served other gods. Therefore I will save 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 cry to the gods which you have chosen; let them save you in the time of your distress."

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

15The children of Israel said to the Lord, "We have sinned. Do to us whatever seems good to you; only deliver us, please, this day."

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

16They put away the foreign gods from among them, and served the Lord; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

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

17Then the children of Ammon were gathered together, and encamped in Gilead. The children of Israel assembled themselves together, and encamped at Mizpah.

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

18The people, the rulers of Gilead, said to each other, "What man is he who will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead."

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