Judges 10:2-13 – And he judged Israel twenty-three years. Then he died and
was buried at Shamir. After him arose Jair the Gileadite, who judged Israel
twenty-two years. And he had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys,
and they had thirty cities, called Havvoth-jair to this day, which are in
the land of Gilead. And Jair died and was buried in Kamon. The people of
Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, the gods
of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites,
and the gods of the Philistines. And they forsook the Lord and did not serve him. So
the anger of the Lord was
kindled against Israel, and 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. And the people of Israel cried out to the Lord, saying, “We have sinned against
you, because we have forsaken our God and have served the Baals.” And
the Lord said to the
people of Israel, “Did I not save you from the Egyptians and from the
Amorites, from the Ammonites and from the Philistines? The
Sidonians also, and the Amalekites and the Maonites oppressed you, and you
cried out to me, and I saved you out of their hand. Yet you have forsaken
me and served other gods; therefore I will save you no more.
Application:
- · The Lord rebuked Israel for forgetting that He had delivered them from their oppressors in Canaan.
All Scripture verses taken from ESV
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