1. After Abimelech’s death, Tola son of Puah, grandson of Dodo, from the tribe of Issachar, rose up to deliver Israel. He lived in Shamir in the Ephraimite hill country.
2. He led Israel for twenty-three years, then died and was buried in Shamir.
3. Jair the Gileadite rose up after him; he led Israel for twenty-two years.
4. He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys and possessed thirty cities. To this day these towns are called Havvoth Jair – they are in the land of Gilead.
5. Jair died and was buried in Kamon.
6. The Israelites again did evil in the Lord’s sight. They worshiped the Baals and the Ashtars, as well as the gods of Syria, Sidon, Moab, the Ammonites, and the Philistines. They abandoned the Lord and did not worship him.
7. The Lord was furious with Israel and turned them over to the Philistines and Ammonites.
8. They ruthlessly oppressed the Israelites that eighteenth year – that is, all the Israelites living east of the Jordan in Amorite country in Gilead.