⁶ And again, the Israelites^[a] did evil in the eyes of Yahweh. They served the Baals, the Ashtaroth, the gods of Aram, Sidon, Moab, and the gods of the Ammonites^[b] and Philistines; they abandoned Yahweh and did not serve him. ⁷ And the anger of Yahweh burned^[c] against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines and the Ammonites.^{[d] 8} They crushed and oppressed the Israelites^[e] in that year; for eighteen years they crushed all the Israelites^[f] who were beyond the Jordan, in the land of the Amorites,^[g] which is in Gilead. ⁹ The Ammonites^[h] crossed the Jordan to fight also against Judah, Benjamin, and the house of Ephraim; and Israel was very distressed.