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The Ammonites fight against Israel

The Israelites again did things that the Lord saw were evil. They worshipped idols of Baal and Ashtoreth. They also worshipped the gods of Syria, Sidon and Moab, as well as the gods of the Ammonites and the Philistines.[a] They turned away from the Lord and they did not serve him any more.

The Lord became angry with the Israelites. He put them under the power of the Ammonites and the Philistines. That year they attacked the Israelites who lived in the Gilead region, on the east side of the Jordan River. That was the land where the Amorites lived. They were cruel to the Israelites for 18 years.

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Footnotes

  1. 10:6 The Ammonites were the descendants of Ben-Ammi, who was the grandson of Lot. See Genesis 19:36-38.

Jephthah

Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord.(A) They served the Baals and the Ashtoreths,(B) and the gods of Aram,(C) the gods of Sidon,(D) the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites(E) and the gods of the Philistines.(F) And because the Israelites forsook the Lord(G) and no longer served him, he became angry(H) with them. He sold them(I) into the hands of the Philistines and the Ammonites, who that year shattered and crushed them. For eighteen years they oppressed all the Israelites on the east side of the Jordan in Gilead,(J) the land of the Amorites.

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