12. The Sidonians also and Amalec and Chanaan oppress you, and you cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand?
13. And yet you have forsaken me, and have worshipped strange gods: therefore I will deliver you no more:
14. Go and call upon the gods which you have chosen: let them deliver you in the time of distress.
15. And the children of Israel said to the Lord: We have sinned, do thou unto us whatsoever pleaseth thee: only deliver us this time.
16. And saying these things, they cast away out of their coasts all the idols of strange gods and served the Lord their God: and he was touched with their miseries.
17. And the children of Ammon shouting together, pitched their tents in Galaad: against whom the children of Israel assembled themselves together and camped in Maspha.
18. And the princes of Galaad said one to another: Whosoever of us shall first begin to fight against the children of Ammon, he shall be the leader of the people of Galaad.