^{8 Ref} And that year the children of Israel were crushed under their yoke; for eighteen years all the children of Israel on the other side of Jordan, in the land of the Amorites which is in Gilead, were cruelly crushed down.

^{9 Ref} And the children of Ammon went over Jordan, to make war against Judah and Benjamin and the house of Ephraim; and Israel was in great trouble.

^{10 Ref} Then the children of Israel, crying out to the Lord, said, Great is our sin against you, for we have given up our God and have been servants to the Baals.

^{11 Ref} And the Lord said to the children of Israel, Were not the Egyptians and the Amorites and the children of Ammon and the Philistines

^{12 Ref} And the Zidonians and Amalek and Midian crushing you down, and in answer to your cry did I not give you salvation from their hands?