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Judges 10:16 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" They put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel. "
Judges 10:16
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14 Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen. Let them save you in the time of your distress!”
15 The children of Israel said to the LORD, “We have sinned! Do to us whatever seems good to you; only deliver us, please, today.”
16 They put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
17 Then the children of Ammon were gathered together and encamped in Gilead. The children of Israel assembled themselves together and encamped in Mizpah.
18 The people, the princes of Gilead, said to one another, “Who is the man who will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”
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Judges 10:1
"After Abimelech, Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, arose to save Israel. He lived in Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim."
Judges 10:2
"He judged Israel twenty-three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir."
Judges 10:3
"After him Jair, the Gileadite, arose. He judged Israel twenty-two years."
Judges 10:4
"He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkey colts. They had thirty cities, which are called Havvoth Jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead."
Judges 10:5
"Jair died, and was buried in Kamon."
Judges 10:6
"The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, and served the Baals, the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines. They abandoned the LORD, and didn’t serve him."
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