Again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the Lord. They worshipped the Baals, the Ashtoreths, and the gods of Syria, Sidon, Moab, the Ammonites, and the Philistines. They abandoned the Lord and did not serve Him.
They brutally oppressed the Israelites that year. For eighteen years they oppressed all the Israelites beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites in Gilead.