Judges 10:6–16

Oppression by the Ammonites

⁶The Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, serving the Baals and the Astartes, the gods of Aram, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines. Thus they abandoned the Lord and did not worship him.^{* 7}So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the Ammonites,^{* 8}and they crushed and oppressed the Israelites that year. For eighteen years they oppressed all the Israelites who were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead. ⁹The Ammonites also crossed the Jordan to fight against Judah and against Benjamin and against the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was greatly distressed.

¹⁰So the Israelites cried to the Lord, saying, “We have sinned against you, because we have abandoned our God and have served the Baals.”^{* 11}And the Lord said to the Israelites, “Did I not deliver you^r from the Egyptians and from the Amorites, from the Ammonites and from the Philistines?^{* 12}The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites oppressed you, and you cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand.^{* 13}Yet you have abandoned me and served other gods; therefore I will deliver you no more. ¹⁴Go and cry to the gods whom you have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your distress.”^{* 15}And the Israelites said to the Lord, “We have sinned; do to us whatever seems good to you, but deliver us this day!”^{* 16}So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the Lord, and he could no longer bear to see Israel suffer.^*