Judges 10

vayyaqom akhare avimelekh lehoshia et-yisra'el tola ben-pu'ah ben-dodo ish yissashkhar vehu-yoshev beshamir behar efrayim

After Abimelech, Tola son of Puah son of Dodo, of Issachar, arose to deliver Israel. He lived at Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim.

vayyishpot et-yisra'el esrim veshalosh shanah vayyamot vayyiqqaver beshamir

He led Israel for twenty-three years; then he died and was buried at Shamir.

vayyaqom akharayw ya'ir haggiladi vayyishpot et-yisra'el esrim ushetayim shanah

After him arose Jair the Gileadite, and he led Israel for twenty-two years.

vayehi-lo sheloshim banim rokhevim al-sheloshim ayarim usheloshim ayarim lahem lahem yiqre'u khavvot ya'ir ad hayyom hazzeh asher be'erets haggilad

(He had thirty sons, who rode on thirty burros and owned thirty boroughs in the region of Gilead; these are called Havvoth-jair to this day.)

vayyamot ya'ir vayyiqqaver beqamon

Then Jair died and was buried at Kamon.

vayyosifu bene yisra'el la'asot hara be'ene Adonai vayya'avdu et-habbe'alim ve'et-ha'ashtarot ve'et-elohe aram ve'et-elohe tsidon ve'et elohe mo'av ve'et elohe vene-ammon ve'et elohe felishtim vayya'azvu et-Adonai velo avaduhu

The Israelites again did what was offensive to GOD. They served the Baalim and the Ashtaroth, and the gods of Aram, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines; they forsook and did not serve GOD.

vayyikhar-af Adonai beyisra'el vayyimkerem beyad-pelishtim uveyad bene ammon

And GOD, incensed with Israel, surrendered them to the Philistines and to the Ammonites.

vayyiratsu vayerotsetsu et-bene yisra'el bashanah hahi shemoneh esreh shanah et-kol-bene yisra'el asher be'ever hayyarden be'erets ha'emori asher baggilad

That year they battered and shattered the Israelites—for eighteen years—all the Israelites beyond the Jordan, in [what had been] the land of the Amorites in Gilead.

vayya'avru vene-ammon et-hayyarden lehillakhem gam-bihudah uvevinyamin uvevet efrayim vattetser leyisra'el me'od

The Ammonites also crossed the Jordan to make war on Judah, Benjamin, and the House of Ephraim. Israel was in great distress.

vayyizaqu bene yisra'el el-Adonai lemor khatanu lakh vekhi azavnu et-elohenu vanna'avod et-habbe'alim

Then the Israelites cried out to GOD, “We stand guilty before You, for we have forsaken our God and served the Baalim.”

vayyomer Adonai el-bene yisra'el halo mimmitsrayim umin-ha'emori umin-bene ammon umin-pelishtim

But GOD said to the Israelites, “[I have rescued you] from the Egyptians, from the Amorites, from the Ammonites, and from the Philistines.

vetsidonim va'amaleq uma'on lakhatsu etkhem vattitsaqu elay va'oshi'ah etkhem miyyadam

The Sidonians, Amalek, and Maon also oppressed you; and when you cried out to Me, I saved you from them.

ve'attem azavtem oti vatta'avdu elohim akherim lakhen lo-osif lehoshia etkhem

Yet you have forsaken Me and have served other gods. No, I will not deliver you again.

lekhu veza'aqu el-ha'elohim asher bekhartem bam hemmah yoshi'u lakhem be'et tsaratkhem

Go cry to the gods you have chosen; let them deliver you in your time of distress!”

vayyomeru vene-yisra'el el-Adonai khatanu aseh-attah lanu kekhol-hattov be'enekha akh hatsilenu na hayyom hazzeh

But the Israelites implored GOD: “We stand guilty. Do to us as You see fit; only save us this day!”

vayyasiru et-elohe hannekhar miqqirbam vayya'avdu et-Adonai vattiqtsar nafsho ba'amal yisra'el

They removed the alien gods from among them and served GOD; and [God] could not bear the miseries of Israel.

vayyitsa'aqu bene ammon vayyakhanu baggilad vayye'asefu bene yisra'el vayyakhanu bammitspah

The Ammonites mustered and they encamped in Gilead; and the Israelites massed and they encamped at Mizpah.

vayyomeru ha'am sare gilad ish el-re'ehu mi ha'ish asher yakhel lehillakhem bivne ammon yihyeh lerosh lekhol yosheve gilad

The troops—the officers of Gilead—said to one another, “Let whoever is the first to fight the Ammonites be chieftain over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”