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.
9. The Ammonites even crossed the Jordan to fight the tribes of Judah, Benjamin, and Ephraim. Israel was in great distress.
10. Then the Israelites cried out to the Lord and said, “We have sinned against you, for we left you, our God, and worshipped the Baals.”
11. The Lord gave them this answer: “The Egyptians, the Amorites, the Ammonites, the Philistines,