13. And yet you have forsaken me, and you have worshipped foreign gods. For this reason, I will not continue to free you any more.
14. Go, and call upon the gods whom you have chosen. Let them free you in the time of anguish."
15. And the sons of Israel said to the Lord: "We have sinned. You may repay us in whatever way pleases you. Yet free us now."
16. And saying these things, they cast out all the idols of the foreign gods from their regions, and they served the Lord God. And he was touched by their miseries.
17. And then the sons of Ammon, shouting out together, pitched their tents in Gilead. And the sons of Israel gathered together against them, and they made camp at Mizpah.
18. And the leaders of Gilead said to one another, "Whoever among us will be the first to begin to contend against the sons of Ammon, he shall be the leader of the people of Gilead."