¹⁰Then the Israelitesⁱ cried out to Yahweh, saying, “We have sinned against you; we have abandoned our God and served the Baals.” ¹¹And Yahweh said to the Israelites,^j “Did I not deliver you from the Egyptians,^k the Amorites,^l from the Ammonites,^m and from the Philistines?ⁿ ¹²And when the Sidonians, the Amalekites,^o and the Maonites^p oppressed you, you cried out to me, and I delivered you from their hand. ¹³Yet you have abandoned me and served other gods. Therefore I will no longer deliver you. ¹⁴Go and cry out to the gods whom you have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your trouble.” ¹⁵And the Israelites^q said to Yahweh, “We have sinned; do to us accordingly as you see fit;^r only please deliver us this day.” ¹⁶So they removed the foreign gods from their midst and served Yahweh; and he could no longer bear^s the misery of Israel.

¹⁷And the Ammonites^t were summoned,^u and they camped in Gilead. And the Israelites^v gathered and camped at Mizpah. ¹⁸The people, the ones commanding Gilead, said to each other,^w “Who is the man that will begin to fight against the Ammonites?^x He will be as head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”

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Footnotes

hLiterally “sons/children of Ammon”
iLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
jLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
kHebrew “from Egypt”
lHebrew “Amorite”
mLiterally “sons/children of Ammon”
nHebrew “Philistine”
oHebrew “Amalekite”
pHebrew “Maonite”
qLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
rLiterally “do to us according to the good in your eyes”
sLiterally “his soul was short with”
tLiterally “sons/children of Ammon”
uOr “were called to arms”
vLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
wLiterally “said each to his neighbor”
xLiterally “sons/children of Ammon”