Judges 10:6

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4 Now he had thirty sons who ^arode on thirty donkeys; they also had thirty towns, ^bwhich are called “Havoth Jair” to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.

5 And Jair died and was buried in Camon.

Israel Oppressed Again

6 Then ^athe children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord, and ^bserved the Baals and the Ashtoreths, ^cthe gods of Syria, the gods of ^dSidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the people of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines; and they forsook the Lord and did not serve Him.

7 So the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel; and He ^asold them into the hands of the ^bPhilistines and into the hands of the people of ^cAmmon.

8 From that year they¹ harassed and oppressed the children of Israel for eighteen years—all the children of Israel who were on the other side of the Jordan in the ^aland of the Amorites, in Gilead.

9 Moreover the people of Ammon crossed over the Jordan to fight against Judah also, against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was severely distressed.

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Judges 10:6

The gods of Syria - Or "Aram." In the times of the Judges the various tribes of Aramites, or Syrians, were not compacted into one state, nor were they until after the time of Solomon. The national gods of these various Aramean tribes were probably the same; and their worship would be likely to be introduced into the trans-Jordanic tribes. It has been remarked that the Hebrew words for "to divine," "to practice magic," "idolatrous priests," and other like words, are of Syrian origin. The Syriac ritual proved very attractive to king Ahaz II Kings 16:10-12. For the national gods of the Zidonians, Moabites, Ammonites, and Philistines, see I Kings 11:5, I Kings 11:7,I Kings 11:33; I Samuel 5:2-5.

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