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Judges 10
¹¹ The LORD replied, “Did I not rescue you from the Egyptians, the Amorites, the Ammonites, the Philistines,
¹² the Sidonians, the Amalekites, and the Maonites? When they oppressed you, you cried out to me for help, and I rescued you.
¹³ Yet you have abandoned me and served other gods. So I will not rescue you anymore.
¹⁴ Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen! Let them rescue you in your hour of distress!”
¹⁵ But the Israelites pleaded with the LORD and said, “We have sinned. Punish us as you see fit, only rescue us today from our enemies.”
¹⁶ Then the Israelites put aside their foreign gods and served the LORD. And he was grieved by their misery.
¹⁷ At that time the armies of Ammon had gathered for war and were camped in Gilead, and the people of Israel assembled and camped at Mizpah.
¹⁸ The leaders of Gilead said to each other, “Whoever attacks the Ammonites first will become ruler over all the people of Gilead.”
Judges 11
¹ Now Jephthah of Gilead was a great warrior. He was the son of Gilead, but his mother was a prostitute.
² Gilead’s wife also had several sons, and when these half brothers grew up, they chased Jephthah off the land. “You will not get any of our father’s inheritance,” they said, “for you are the son of a prostitute.”
³ So Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob. Soon he had a band of worthless rebels following him.