12. Also when the Sidonians, the Amalekites, and the Maonites oppressed and crushed you, you cried to Me, and I delivered you out of their hands.
13. Yet you have forsaken Me and served other gods; therefore I will deliver you no more.
14. Go, cry to the gods you have chosen; let them deliver you in your time of distress.
15. And the Israelites said to the Lord, We have sinned, do to us whatever seems good to You; only deliver us, we pray You, this day.
16. So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the Lord, and His heart became impatient over the misery of Israel.
17. Then the Ammonites were gathered together and they encamped in Gilead. And the Israelites assembled and encamped at Mizpah.
18. And the leaders of Gilead [the Israelites] said one to another, Who is the man who will begin to fight against the Ammonites? He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.