1. After the time of Abimelek, a man of Issachar named Tola son of Puah, the son of Dodo, rose to save Israel. He lived in Shamir, in the hill country of Ephraim.
2. He led Israel twenty-three years; then he died, and was buried in Shamir.
3. He was followed by Jair of Gilead, who led Israel twenty-two years.