7 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the Ammonites,
8 and they crushed and oppressed the children of Israel that year. For eighteen years they oppressed all the people of Israel that were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.
9 And the Ammonites crossed the Jordan to fight also against Judah and against Benjamin and against the house of E'phraim; so that Israel was sorely distressed.
10 And the people of Israel cried to the LORD, saying, 'We have sinned against thee, because we have forsaken our God and have served the Ba'als.'
11 And the LORD said to the people of Israel, 'Did I not deliver you from the Egyptians and from the Amorites, from the Ammonites and from the Philistines?
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