Judges 10:6–16

⁶Then the sons of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord, ^aserved the Baals and the Ashtaroth, the gods of Aram, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, ^bthe gods of the sons of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines; thus ^cthey forsook the Lord and did not serve Him.

⁷The anger of the Lord burned against Israel, and He ^asold them into the hands of the Philistines and into the hands of the sons of Ammon.

⁸They ¹afflicted and crushed the sons of Israel ²that year; for eighteen years they afflicted all the sons of Israel who were beyond the Jordan ³in Gilead in the land of the Amorites.

⁹The sons of Ammon crossed the Jordan to fight also against Judah, Benjamin, and the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was greatly distressed.

¹⁰Then the ^asons of Israel cried out to the Lord, saying, “We have sinned against You, for indeed, we have forsaken our God and served the Baals.”

¹¹The Lord said to the sons of Israel, “Did I not deliver you ^afrom the Egyptians, ^bthe Amorites, ^cthe sons of Ammon, and the Philistines?

¹²“Also when the Sidonians, the Amalekites and the Maonites ^aoppressed you, you cried out to Me, and I delivered you from their hands.

¹³“Yet ^ayou have forsaken Me and served other gods; therefore I will no longer deliver you.

¹⁴“^aGo and cry out to the gods which you have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your distress.”

¹⁵The sons of Israel said to the Lord, “We have sinned, ^ado to us whatever seems good to You; only please deliver us this day.”

^16aSo they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the Lord; and ^1bHe could bear the misery of Israel no longer.