Judges 10:9-18

⁹Then the Ammonites crossed over the Jordan to fight against Judah, against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was greatly distressed.

¹⁰Then the people of Israel called out to Yahweh, saying, “We have sinned against you, because we abandoned our God and worshiped the Baals.”

¹¹Yahweh said to the people of Israel, “Did I not deliver you from the Egyptians, the Amorites, the Ammonites, the Philistines,

¹²and also from the Sidonians? The Amalekites and the Maonites oppressed you; you called out to me, and I delivered you from their power.

¹³Yet you abandoned me again and worshiped other gods. Therefore, I will not keep adding to the times I deliver you.

¹⁴Go and call out to the gods that you have worshiped. Let them rescue you when you have trouble.”

¹⁵The people of Israel said to Yahweh, “We have sinned. Do to us whatever seems good to you. Only please, rescue us this day.”

¹⁶They got rid of the foreign gods among them and they worshiped Yahweh. Then Yahweh could bear Israel's misery no longer.

¹⁷Then Ammonites gathered together and set up camp in Gilead. The Israelites came together and set up their camp at Mizpah.

¹⁸The leaders of the people of Gilead said one to another, “Who is the man who will begin to fight the Ammonites? He will become the leader over all those who are living in Gilead.”