Judges 3:5–11

^5aThe sons of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites;

⁶and ^athey took their daughters for themselves as wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

⁷The sons of Israel did ^awhat was evil in the sight of the Lord, and ^bforgot the Lord their God and ^cserved the Baals and the ¹Asheroth.

⁸Then the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, so that He sold them into the hands of Cushan-rishathaim king of ¹Mesopotamia; and the sons of Israel served Cushan-rishathaim eight years.

The First Judge Delivers Israel

⁹When the sons of Israel cried to the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliverer for the sons of Israel to deliver them, ^aOthniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother.

^10aThe Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he judged Israel. When he went out to war, the Lord gave Cushan-rishathaim king of ¹Mesopotamia into his hand, so that ²he prevailed over Cushan-rishathaim.

¹¹Then the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died.