Judges 3

¹These are the nations which the Lord left, that by them he might instruct Israel, and all that had not known the wars of the Chanaanites:

²That afterwards their children might learn to fight with their enemies, and to be trained up to war:

³The five princes of the Philistines, and all the Chanaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hevites that dwelt in mount Libanus, from mount Baal Hermon to the entering into Emath.

⁴And he left them, that he might try Israel by them, whether they would hear the commandments of the Lord, which he had commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses, or not.

⁵So the children of Israel dwelt in the midst of the Chanaanite, and the Hethite, and the Amorrhite, and the Pherezite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite:

⁶And they took their daughters to wives, and they gave their own daughters to their sons, and they served their gods.

⁷And they did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they forgot their God, and served Baalim and Astaroth.

⁸And the Lord being angry with Israel, delivered them into the hands of Chusan Rasathaim king of Mesopotamia, and they served him eight years.

⁹And they cried to the Lord, who raised them up a saviour, and delivered them, to wit, Othoniel the son of Cenez, the younger brother of Caleb:

¹⁰And the spirit of the Lord was in him, and he judged Israel. And he went out to fight, and the Lord delivered into his hands Chusan Rasathaim king of Syria, and he overthrew him.

¹¹And the land rested forty years, and Othoniel the son of Cenez died.