Judges 3:1-11

English Standard Version

3 ^(A)Now these are the nations that the Lord left, to test Israel by them, that is, all in Israel who had not experienced all the wars in Canaan. ² It was only in order that the generations of the people of Israel might know war, to teach war to those who had not known it before. ³ These are the nations: ^(B)the five lords of the Philistines and all the Canaanites and the Sidonians and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal-hermon as far as Lebo-hamath. ⁴ They were for ^(C)the testing of Israel, to know whether Israel would obey the commandments of the Lord, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses. ⁵ So the people of Israel lived ^(D)among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. ^6 (E)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 (F)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 ^(G)the Asheroth. ⁸ Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, ^(H)and he sold them into the hand of ^(I)Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia. And the people of Israel served Cushan-rishathaim eight years. ⁹ But when the people of Israel ^(J)cried out to the Lord, the Lord raised up a ^(K)deliverer for the people of Israel, who saved them, ^(L)Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother. ^10 (M)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 (N)So the land had rest forty years. Then Othniel the son of Kenaz died.