1. After Abimelech's death Tola, the son of Puah and grandson of Dodo, came to free Israel. He was from the tribe of Issachar and lived at Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim.
2. He was Israel's leader for 23 years. Then he died and was buried at Shamir.
3. After Tola came Jair from Gilead. He led Israel for 22 years.
4. He had thirty sons who rode thirty donkeys. They had thirty cities in the land of Gilead, which are still called the villages of Jair.
5. Jair died and was buried at Kamon.
6. Once again the Israelites sinned against the Lord by worshipping the Baals and the Astartes, as well as the gods of Syria, of Sidon, of Moab, of Ammon, and of Philistia. They abandoned the Lord and stopped worshipping him.
7. So the Lord became angry with the Israelites, and let the Philistines and the Ammonites conquer them.
8. For eighteen years they oppressed and persecuted all the Israelites who lived in Amorite country east of the River Jordan in Gilead.