5. Jair died, and was buried in Kamon.
6. The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the Lord’s sight, and served the Baals, the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines. They abandoned the Lord, and didn’t serve him.
7. the Lord’s anger burnt against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the children of Ammon.
8. They troubled and oppressed the children of Israel that year. For eighteen years, they oppressed all the children of Israel that were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.
9. The children of Ammon passed over the Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was very distressed.
10. The children of Israel cried to the Lord, saying, “We have sinned against you, even because we have forsaken our God, and have served the Baals.”
11. The Lord said to the children of Israel, “Didn’t I save you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?
12. The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, oppressed you; and you cried to me, and I saved you out of their hand.
13. Yet you have forsaken me, and served other gods. Therefore I will save you no more.
14. Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen. Let them save you in the time of your distress!”
15. The children of Israel said to the Lord, “We have sinned! Do to us whatever seems good to you; only deliver us, please, today.”
16. They put away the foreign gods from amongst them, and served the Lord; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.