7 And the Lord, becoming angry against them, delivered them into the hands of the Philistines and the sons of Ammon.
8 And they were afflicted and vehemently oppressed for eighteen years, all who were living beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorite, which is in Gilead,
9 to such a great extent that the sons of Ammon, crossing over the Jordan, laid waste to Judah and Benjamin and Ephraim. And Israel was exceedingly afflicted.
10 And crying out to the Lord, they said: 'We have sinned against you. For we have forsaken the Lord our God, and we have served the Baals.'
11 And the Lord said to them: 'Did not the Egyptians, and the Amorites, and the sons of Ammon, and the Philistines,
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