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God also punished the men of Shechem for the evil they had done. So the curse spoken by Jotham, the youngest son of Gideon, came true.

Tola was a judge for Israel for twenty-three years. Then he died and was buried in Shamir.

After Tola died, Jair from the region of Gilead became judge. He was a judge for Israel for twenty-two years.

In the same year those people destroyed the Israelites who lived east of the Jordan River in the region of Gilead, where the Amorites lived. So the Israelites suffered for eighteen years.

You have chosen those gods. So go call to them for help. Let them save you when you are in trouble."

Then the Israelites threw away the foreign gods among them, and they worshiped the Lord again. So he felt sorry for them when he saw their suffering.

The Ammonites gathered for war and camped in Gilead. The Israelites gathered and camped at Mizpah.

For three hundred years the Israelites have lived in Heshbon and Aroer and the towns around them and in all the cities along the Arnon River. Why have you not taken these cities back in all that time?

She also said, "But let me do one thing. Let me be alone for two months to go to the mountains. Since I will never marry, let me and my friends go and cry together."

Jephthah said, "Go." So he sent her away for two months. She and her friends stayed in the mountains and cried for her because she would never marry.

every year the young women of Israel would go out for four days to remember the daughter of Jephthah from Gilead.

Jephthah was a judge for Israel for six years. Then Jephthah, the man from Gilead, died and was buried in a town in Gilead.

After Jephthah died, Ibzan from Bethlehem was a judge for Israel.

He had thirty sons and thirty daughters. He let his daughters marry men who were not in his family group, and he brought thirty women who were not in his tribe to be wives for his sons. Ibzan judged Israel for seven years.

After Ibzan died, Elon from the tribe of Zebulun was a judge for Israel. He judged Israel for ten years.

After Elon died, Abdon son of Hillel from the city of Pirathon was a judge for Israel.

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

Again the people of Israel did what the Lord said was wrong. So he handed them over to the Philistines for forty years.

Then Manoah prayed to the Lord : "Lord, I beg you to let the man of God come to us again. Let him teach us what we should do for the boy who will be born to us."

Manoah said to the angel of the Lord , "We would like you to stay awhile so we can cook a young goat for you."