Judges 3:5-16

English Standard Version

⁵So the people of Israel lived ^(A)among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. ⁶^(B)And their daughters they took to themselves for wives, and their own daughters they gave to their sons, and they served their gods.

Othniel

⁷^(C)And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. They forgot the Lord their God and served the Baals and ^(D)the Asheroth. ⁸Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, ^(E)and he sold them into the hand of ^(F)Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia. And the people of Israel served Cushan-rishathaim eight years. ⁹But when the people of Israel ^(G)cried out to the Lord, the Lord raised up a ^(H)deliverer for the people of Israel, who saved them, ^(I)Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother. ¹⁰^(J)The Spirit of the Lord was upon him, and he judged Israel. He went out to war, and the Lord gave Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand. And his hand prevailed over Cushan-rishathaim. ¹¹^(K)So the land had rest forty years. Then Othniel the son of Kenaz died.

Ehud

¹²^(L)And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord strengthened Eglon ^(M)the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done what was evil in the sight of the Lord. ¹³He gathered to himself the Ammonites and the ^(N)Amalekites, and went and defeated Israel. And they took possession of ^(O)the city of palms. ¹⁴And the people of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.

¹⁵Then the people of Israel ^(P)cried out to the Lord, and the Lord raised up for them ^(Q)a deliverer, Ehud, the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, ^(R)a left-handed man. The people of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab. ¹⁶And Ehud made for himself a sword with two edges, a cubit^[a] in length, and he bound it on his right thigh under his clothes.