¹⁸ Whenever the Lord raised up judges for them, ^(A)the Lord was with the judge, and he saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. ^(B)For the Lord was moved to pity by ^(C)their groaning because of those who afflicted and oppressed them.

³ Then the people of Israel ^(A)cried out to the Lord for help, for he had ^(B)900 chariots of iron and he oppressed the people of Israel cruelly for twenty years.

⁸ and they crushed and oppressed the people of Israel that year. For eighteen years they oppressed all the people of Israel who were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.

¹² The Sidonians also, and ^(A)the Amalekites and the Maonites oppressed you, and you cried out to me, and I ^(B)saved you out of their hand.

¹⁸ And he said to the people of Israel, ^(A)“Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and I delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of all the kingdoms that were oppressing you.’