13. Yet you have abandoned me and served other gods. Therefore I will no longer deliver you.
14. Go and cry out to the gods whom you have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your trouble.”
15. And the Israelites said to Yahweh, “We have sinned; do to us accordingly as you see fit; only please deliver us this day.”
16. So they removed the foreign gods from their midst and served Yahweh; and he could no longer bear the misery of Israel.
17. And the Ammonites were summoned, and they camped in Gilead. And the Israelites gathered and camped at Mizpah.
18. The people, the ones commanding Gilead, said to each other, “Who is the man that will begin to fight against the Ammonites? He will be as head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”