12And the Zidonians and Amalek and Midian crushing you down, and in answer to your cry did I not give you salvation from their hands?
13But, for all this, you have given me up and have been servants to other gods: so I will be your saviour no longer.
14Go, send up your cry for help to the gods of your selection; let them be your saviours in the time of your trouble.
15And the children of Israel said to the Lord, We are sinners; do to us whatever seems good to you: only give us salvation this day.
16So they put away the strange gods from among them, and became the Lord's servants; and his soul was angry because of the sorrows of Israel.
17Then the children of Ammon came together and put their army in position in Gilead. And the children of Israel came together and put their army in position in Mizpah.
18And the people of Israel said to one another, Who will be the first to make an attack on the children of Ammon? We will make him head over all Gilead.
