¹³ because they forsook^(A) him and served Baal and the Ashtoreths.^(B)

¹⁴ In his anger^(A) against Israel the Lord gave them into the hands^(B) of raiders who plundered^(C) them. He sold them^(D) into the hands of their enemies all around, whom they were no longer able to resist.^(E)

² So the Lord sold them^(A) into the hands of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor.^(B) Sisera,^(C) the commander of his army, was based in Harosheth Haggoyim.

² Because the power of Midian was so oppressive,^(A) the Israelites prepared shelters for themselves in mountain clefts, caves^(B) and strongholds.^(C)

⁶ Midian so impoverished the Israelites that they cried out^(A) to the Lord for help.

³³ Pharaoh Necho put him in chains at Riblah^(A) in the land of Hamath^(B) so that he might not reign in Jerusalem, and he imposed on Judah a levy of a hundred talents^[a] of silver and a talent^[b] of gold.