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.
1 Avimelekin ölümünden sonra İsraili kurtarmak için İssakar oymağından Dodo oğlu Pua oğlu Tola adında bir adam ortaya çıktı. Tola Efrayimin dağlık bölgesindeki Şamirde yaşardı.
2 İsraili yirmi üç yıl yönettikten sonra öldü, Şamirde gömüldü.
3 Ondan sonra Gilatlı Yair başa geçti. Yair İsraili yirmi iki yıl yönetti.
4 Otuz oğlu vardı. Bunlar otuz eşeğe biner, otuz kenti yönetirlerdi. Gilat yöresindeki bu kentler bugün de Havvot-Yair diye anılıyor.
5 Yair ölünce Kamonda gömüldü. gelir.
6 İsrailliler yine RABbin gözünde kötü olanı yaptılar; Baallara, Aştoretlere, Aram, Sayda, Moav, Ammon ve Filist ilahlarına kulluk ettiler. RABbi terk ettiler, Ona kulluk etmediler.
7 Bu yüzden İsraillilere öfkelenen RAB, onları Filistlilere ve Ammonlulara tutsak etti.
8 Bunlar o yıldan başlayarak İsraillileri baskı altında ezdiler; Şeria Irmağının ötesinde, Gilattaki Amorlular ülkesinde yaşayan bütün İsraillileri on sekiz yıl baskı altında tuttular.
9 Ammonlular Yahuda, Benyamin ve Efrayim oymaklarıyla savaşmak için Şeria Irmağının ötesine geçtiler. İsrail büyük sıkıntı içindeydi.
10 İsrailliler RABbe, ‹‹Sana karşı günah işledik›› diye seslendiler, ‹‹Seni, Tanrımızı terk edip Baallara kulluk ettik.››
11 RAB, ‹‹Sizi Mısırlılardan, Amorlulardan, Ammonlulardan, Filistlilerden kurtaran ben değil miyim?›› diye karşılık verdi,
12 ‹‹Saydalılar, Amalekliler, Maonlular size baskı yaptıklarında bana yakardınız, ben de sizi onların elinden kurtardım.
13 Sizse beni terk ettiniz, başka ilahlara kulluk ettiniz. Bu yüzden sizi bir daha kurtarmayacağım.
14 Gidin, seçtiğiniz ilahlara yakarın; sıkıntıya düştüğünüzde sizi onlar kurtarsın.››
15 İsrailliler, ‹‹Günah işledik›› dediler, ‹‹Bize ne istersen yap. Yalnız bugün bizi kurtar.››
16 Sonra aralarındaki yabancı putları atıp RABbe tapındılar. RAB de onların daha fazla acı çekmesine dayanamadı.
17 Ammonlular toplanıp Gilatta ordugah kurunca İsrailliler de toplanarak Mispada ordugah kurdular.
18 Gilat halkının önderleri birbirlerine, ‹‹Ammonlular'a karşı ilk saldırıyı başlatan kişi, bütün Gilat halkının önderi olacak›› dediler.