⁴ Jair had thirty sons, who rode thirty donkeys [12:14]. These thirty sons controlled thirty towns in Gilead, which are called the ·Towns [^LHavvoth; ^CHebrew for “towns” or “tent-villages”] of Jair to this day. ⁵ Jair died and was buried in the city of Kamon.

The Ammonites Trouble Israel

⁶ Again the ·Israelites [^Lsons/^Tchildren of Israel] did ·what the Lord said was wrong [^Levil in the eyes/sight of the Lord]. They ·worshiped [served] ·Baal and Ashtoreth [^Lthe Baals and Ashtoreths; 2:11–13; ^Creferring to the idols of these gods found throughout Israel], the gods of Aram [^Cthese included Hadad, Mot, Anath, and Rimon], Sidon [^CBaal and Ashtoreth], Moab [^CChemosh; Num. 21:29], and Ammon [^CMolech; 1 Kin. 11:7], and the gods of the Philistines [^CDagon; 16:23]. The Israelites ·left [abandoned; forsook] the Lord and stopped serving him.