6. Again the Israelites did what the Lord said was wrong. They worshiped Baal and Ashtoreth, the gods of Aram, Sidon, Moab, and Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines. The Israelites left the Lord and stopped serving him.
7. So the Lord was angry with them and handed them over to the Philistines and the Ammonites.
8. In the same year those people destroyed the Israelites who lived east of the Jordan River in the region of Gilead, where the Amorites lived. So the Israelites suffered for eighteen years.
9. The Ammonites then crossed the Jordan River to fight the people of Judah, Benjamin, and Ephraim, causing much trouble to the people of Israel.
10. So the Israelites cried out to the Lord, “We have sinned against you. We left our God and worshiped the Baal idols.”
11. The Lord answered the Israelites, “When the Egyptians, Amorites, Ammonites, Philistines,
12. Sidonians, Amalekites, and Maonites were cruel to you, you cried out to me, and I saved you.