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. And the Ammonites crossed the Jordan to fight also against Judah and against Benjamin and against the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was severely distressed.

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