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Further Disobedience and Oppression

(A)The people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord (B)and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, (C)the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines. And they (D)forsook the Lord and did not serve him. So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and (E)he sold them into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the Ammonites, and they crushed and oppressed the people of Israel that year. For eighteen years they oppressed all the people of Israel who were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.

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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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