1 En n Abim,leg het Tola, die seun van Pua, die seun van Dodo, 'n man uit Issaskar, opgetree om Israel te verlos; en hy het gewoon in Samir op die gebergte van Efraim.
2 En hy het Israel drie en twintig jaar lank gerig; en hy het gesterwe en is in Samir begrawe.
3 En n hom het Ja‹r, die Gileadiet, opgetree, en hy het Israel twee en twintig jaar lank gerig.
4 En hy het dertig seuns gehad, wat op dertig jong esels gery en dertig stede gehad het; die word tot vandag toe die Ja‹rsdorpe genoem wat in die land G¡lead lê.
5 En Ja‹r het gesterwe en is in Kamon begrawe.
6 En die kinders van Israel het weer gedoen wat verkeerd was in die oë van die HERE, en hulle het die Ba„ls en die Astartes gedien, en die gode van Aram en die gode van Sidon en die gode van Moab en die gode van die kinders van Ammon en die gode van die Filistyne, en hulle het die HERE verlaat en Hom nie gedien nie.
7 Daarom het die toorn van die HERE ontvlam teen Israel, en Hy het hulle verkoop in die hand van die Filistyne en in die hand van die kinders van Ammon.
8 En hulle het die kinders van Israel verpletter en verdruk in daardie jaar, agttien jaar lank, al die kinders van Israel wat oorkant die Jordaan gewoon het in die land van die Amoriete, wat in G¡lead was.
9 Daarby het die kinders van Ammon die Jordaan oorgetrek om ook teen Juda en Benjamin en die huis van Efraim te veg, sodat Israel dit baie benoud gehad het.
10 Toe roep die kinders van Israel die HERE aan en sê: Ons het teen U gesondig, want ons het onse God verlaat en die Baäls gedien.
11 Maar die HERE het aan die kinders van Israel gesê: Het Ek julle nie van die Egiptenaars en van die Amoriete, van die kinders van Ammon en van die Filistyne --
12 en toe die Sidoniërs en Amalekiete en Maoniete julle verdruk en julle My aangeroep het -- julle uit hulle hand verlos nie?
13 Maar julle het My verlaat en ander gode gedien; daarom sal Ek julle nie meer verlos nie.
14 Gaan heen en roep die gode aan wat julle verkies het; laat die julle verlos in die tyd van julle benoudheid.
15 Toe sê die kinders van Israel aan die HERE: Ons het gesondig; maak met ons net soos dit goed is in u oë; verlos ons tog net vandag.
16 En hulle het die vreemde gode uit hulle midde verwyder en die HERE gedien; toe het Hy ongeduldig geword oor die moeite van Israel.
17 En die kinders van Ammon is byeengeroep en het laer opgeslaan in G¡lead; maar die kinders van Israel het bymekaargekom en laer opgeslaan by Mispa.
18 Toe sê die manskappe, die vorste van G¡lead, die een aan die ander: Wie is die man wat sal begin om te veg teen die kinders van Ammon? Hy sal hoof wees oor al die inwoners van G¡lead.
1 Now after Abimelech, Tola, the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, became the saviour of Israel; he was living in Shamir in the hill-country of Ephraim.
2 He was judge over Israel for twenty-three years; and at his death his body was put to rest in the earth in Shamir.
3 And after him came Jair the Gileadite, who was judge over Israel for twenty-two years.
4 And he had thirty sons, who went on thirty young asses; and they had thirty towns in the land of Gilead, which are named Havvoth-Jair to this day.
5 And at the death of Jair his body was put to rest in the earth in Kamon.
6 And again the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord, worshipping the Baals and Astartes, and the gods of Aram and the gods of Zidon and the gods of Moab and the gods of the children of Ammon and the gods of the Philistines; they gave up the Lord and were servants to him no longer.
7 And the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he gave them up into the hands of the Philistines and into the hands of the children of Ammon.
8 And that year the children of Israel were crushed under their yoke; for eighteen years all the children of Israel on the other side of Jordan, in the land of the Amorites which is in Gilead, were cruelly crushed down.
9 And the children of Ammon went over Jordan, to make war against Judah and Benjamin and the house of Ephraim; and Israel was in great trouble.
10 Then the children of Israel, crying out to the Lord, said, Great is our sin against you, for we have given up our God and have been servants to the Baals.
11 And the Lord said to the children of Israel, Were not the Egyptians and the Amorites and the children of Ammon and the Philistines
12 And the Zidonians and Amalek and Midian crushing you down, and in answer to your cry did I not give you salvation from their hands?
13 But, for all this, you have given me up and have been servants to other gods: so I will be your saviour no longer.
14 Go, send up your cry for help to the gods of your selection; let them be your saviours in the time of your trouble.
15 And the children of Israel said to the Lord, We are sinners; do to us whatever seems good to you: only give us salvation this day.
16 So they put away the strange gods from among them, and became the Lord's servants; and his soul was angry because of the sorrows of Israel.
17 Then the children of Ammon came together and put their army in position in Gilead. And the children of Israel came together and put their army in position in Mizpah.
18 And the people of Israel said to one another, Who will be the first to make an attack on the children of Ammon? We will make him head over all Gilead.