1. After Abimelech there arose a ruler in Israel, Thola son of Phua the uncle of Abimelech, a man of Issachar, who dwelt in Samir of mount Ephraim:
2. And he judged Israel three and twenty years, and he died and was buried in Samir.
3. To him succeeded Jair the Galaadite, who judged Israel for two and twenty years.
4. Having thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and were princes of thirty cities, which from his name were called Havoth Jair, that is, the towns of Jair, until this present day in the land of Galaad.
5. And Jair died: and was buried in the place which was called Camon.
6. But the children of Israel, adding new sins to their old ones, did evil in the sight of the Lord, and served idols, Baalim and Astaroth, and the gods of Syria and of Sidon and of Moab and of the children of Ammon and of the Philistines: and they left the Lord, and did not serve him.
7. And the Lord being angry with them, delivered them into the hands of the Philistines and of the children of Ammon.
8. And they were afflicted, and grievously oppressed for eighteen years, all they that dwelt beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorrhite, who is in Galaad:
9. Insomuch that the children of Ammon passing over the Jordan, wasted Juda and Benjamin and Ephraim: and Israel was distressed exceedingly.
10. And they cried to the Lord, and said: We have sinned against thee, because we have forsaken the Lord our God, and have served Baalim.