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The Ammonites Trouble Israel

Again the ·Israelites [L sons/T children of Israel] did ·what the Lord said was wrong [L evil in the eyes/sight of the Lord]. They ·worshiped [served] ·Baal and Ashtoreth [L the Baals and Ashtoreths; 2:11–13; C referring to the idols of these gods found throughout Israel], the gods of Aram [C these included Hadad, Mot, Anath, and Rimon], Sidon [C Baal and Ashtoreth], Moab [C Chemosh; Num. 21:29], and Ammon [C Molech; 1 Kin. 11:7], and the gods of the Philistines [C Dagon; 16:23]. The Israelites ·left [abandoned; forsook] the Lord and stopped serving him. So the Lord ·was angry with [L burned with anger against] them and ·handed them over to [L gave them into the hand of] the Philistines and the Ammonites. In the same year those people ·destroyed [L shattered and crushed; C from two Hebrew words that sound similar] the ·Israelites [L sons/T children of Israel] who lived east of the Jordan River in the region of Gilead, where the Amorites lived. So the Israelites suffered for eighteen years. The Ammonites then crossed the Jordan River to fight the people of Judah, Benjamin, and Ephraim, causing much ·trouble [distress] to the people of Israel.

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Then the sons of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord, and (A)they served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, the gods of Aram, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, (B)the gods of the sons of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines; so (C)they abandoned the Lord and did not serve Him. And the anger of the Lord burned against Israel, and He (D)sold them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the sons of Ammon. And they [a]afflicted and oppressed the sons of Israel [b]that year; for eighteen years they oppressed all the sons of Israel who were beyond the Jordan, [c]in Gilead in the land of the Amorites. And the sons of Ammon crossed the Jordan to fight also against Judah, Benjamin, and the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was in great difficulty.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 10:8 Lit destroyed
  2. Judges 10:8 Lit in that
  3. Judges 10:8 Lit which is in