Israel turns to foreign worship

6And the sons of Israel again did what was evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and they served the Baals and the Ashtoreths, and the gods of Aram, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the sons of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines. They forsook Yahweh and did not serve him.

7So Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the Ammonites.

8And they shattered and crushed the sons of Israel in that year; for eighteen years they oppressed all the sons of Israel who were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.

9Then the Ammonites crossed the Jordan to fight also against Judah, Benjamin, and the house of Ephraim, and Israel was greatly distressed.