1 After the time of Abimelek, a man of Issachar named Tola son of Puah, the son of Dodo, rose to save Israel. He lived in Shamir, in the hill country of Ephraim.2 He led "Israel twenty-three years; then he died, and was buried in Shamir.3 He was followed by Jair of Gilead, who led Israel twenty-two years.4 He had thirty sons, who rode thirty donkeys. They controlled thirty towns in Gilead, which to this day are called Havvoth Jair. [^2]5 When Jair died, he was buried in Kamon.6 Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD. They served the Baals and the Ashtoreths, and the gods of Aram, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites and the gods of the Philistines. And because the Israelites forsook the LORD and no longer served him,7 he became angry with them. He sold them into the hands of the Philistines and the Ammonites,8 who that year shattered and crushed them. For eighteen years they oppressed all the Israelites on the east side of the Jordan in Gilead, the land of the Amorites.9 The Ammonites also crossed the Jordan to fight against Judah, Benjamin and Ephraim; Israel was in great distress.10 Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, "We have sinned against you, forsaking our God and serving the Baals."11 The LORD replied, "When the Egyptians, the Amorites, the Ammonites, the Philistines,12 the Sidonians, the Amalekites and the Maonites "oppressed you and you cried to me for help, did I not save you from their hands?13 But you have forsaken me and served other gods, so I will no longer save you.14 Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them save you when you are in trouble!"15 But the Israelites said to the LORD, "We have sinned. Do with us whatever you think best, but please rescue us now."16 Then they got rid of the foreign gods among them and served the LORD. And he could bear Israel's misery no longer.17 When the Ammonites were called to arms and camped in Gilead, the Israelites assembled and camped at Mizpah.18 The leaders of the people of Gilead said to each other, "Whoever will take the lead in attacking the Ammonites will be head over all who live in Gilead."

1 Post Abimelech surrexit dux in Isral Thola filius Phua patrui Abimelech, vir de Issachar, qui habitavit in Samir montis Ephraim : 2 et judicavit Isralem viginti et tribus annis, mortuusque est, ac sepultus in Samir. 3 Huic successit Jair Galaadites, qui judicavit Isral per viginti et duos annos, 4 habens triginta filios sedentes super triginta pullos asinarum, et principes triginta civitatum, qu ex nomine ejus sunt appellat Havoth Jair, id est, oppida Jair, usque in prsentem diem, in terra Galaad. 5 Mortuusque est Jair, ac sepultus in loco cui est vocabulum Camon.6 Filii autem Isral peccatis veteribus jungentes nova, fecerunt malum in conspectu Domini, et servierunt idolis, Baalim et Astaroth, et diis Syri ac Sidonis et Moab et filiorum Ammon et Philisthiim : dimiseruntque Dominum, et non coluerunt eum. 7 Contra quos Dominus iratus, tradidit eos in manus Philisthiim et filiorum Ammon. 8 Afflictique sunt, et vehementer oppressi per annos decem et octo, omnes qui habitabant trans Jordanem in terra Amorrhi, qui est in Galaad : 9 in tantum ut filii Ammon, Jordane transmisso, vastarent Judam et Benjamin et Ephraim : afflictusque est Isral nimis. 10 Et clamantes ad Dominum, dixerunt : Peccavimus tibi, quia dereliquimus Dominum Deum nostrum, et servivimus Baalim. 11 Quibus locutus est Dominus : Numquid non gyptii et Amorrhi, filiique Ammon et Philisthiim, 12 Sidonii quoque et Amalec et Chanaan oppresserunt vos, et clamastis ad me, et erui vos de manu eorum ? 13 Et tamen reliquistis me, et coluistis deos alienos : idcirco non addam ut ultra vos liberem : 14 ite, et invocate deos quos elegistis : ipsi vos liberent in tempore angusti. 15 Dixeruntque filii Isral ad Dominum : Peccavimus, redde tu nobis quidquid tibi placet : tantum nunc libera nos. 16 Qu dicentes, omnia de finibus suis alienorum deorum idola projecerunt, et servierunt Domino Deo : qui doluit super miseriis eorum. 17 Itaque filii Ammon conclamantes in Galaad fixere tentoria, contra quos congregati filii Isral in Maspha castrametati sunt. 18 Dixeruntque principes Galaad singuli ad proximos suos : Qui primus ex nobis contra filios Ammon cperit dimicare, erit dux populi Galaad.