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He was Israel's leader for twenty-three years. Then he died and was buried at Shamir.

After Tola came Jair from Gilead. He led Israel for twenty-two years.

For eighteen years they oppressed and persecuted all the Israelites who lived in Amorite country east of the Jordan River in Gilead.

Then the Israelites cried out to the Lord and said, "We have sinned against you, for we left you, our God, and worshiped the Baals."

Then the Ammonite army prepared for battle and camped in Gilead. The people of Israel came together and camped at Mizpah in Gilead.

Then the Israelites sent messengers to Sihon, the Amorite king of Heshbon, and asked him for permission to go through his country to their own land.

So it was the Lord , the God of Israel, who drove out the Amorites for his people, the Israelites.

Are you going to try to take it back? You can keep whatever your god Chemosh has given you. But we are going to keep everything that the Lord , our God, has taken for us.

For three hundred years Israel has occupied Heshbon and Aroer, and the towns around them, and all the cities on the banks of the Arnon River. Why haven't you taken them back in all this time?

But she asked her father, "Do this one thing for me. Leave me alone for two months, so that I can go with my friends to wander in the mountains and grieve that I must die a virgin."

He told her to go and sent her away for two months. She and her friends went up into the mountains and grieved because she was going to die unmarried and childless.

that the Israelite women would go out for four days every year to grieve for the daughter of Jephthah of Gilead.

The men of Ephraim prepared for battle; they crossed the Jordan River to Zaphon and said to Jephthah, "Why did you cross the border to fight the Ammonites without calling us to go with you? We'll burn the house down over your head!"

Jephthah led Israel for six years. Then he died and was buried in his hometown in Gilead.

He had thirty sons and thirty daughters. He gave his daughters in marriage outside the clan and brought thirty young women from outside the clan for his sons to marry. Ibzan led Israel for seven years,

After Ibzan, Elon from Zebulun led Israel for ten years.

He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys. Abdon led Israel for eight years,

The Israelites sinned against the Lord again, and he let the Philistines rule them for forty years.

Not knowing that it was the Lord 's angel, Manoah said to him, "Please do not go yet. Let us cook a young goat for you." But the angel said, "If I do stay, I will not eat your food. But if you want to prepare it, burn it as an offering to the Lord ."

He went back home and told his father and mother, "There is a Philistine woman down at Timnah who caught my attention. Get her for me; I want to marry her."