--- title: "Othniel" description: "So the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD; they forgot the LORD their..." image: "" book: "Judges" bookId: "JDG" testament: "old" startChapter: 3 startVerse: 7 endChapter: 3 endVerse: 11 coversChapters: [3] aiTitle: "Othniel" aiDescription: "So the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD; they forgot the LORD their..." hasAiStory: true location: "Aram-naharaim" persons: ["God","Israelites","Cushan-rishathaim","Othniel","Caleb","Kenaz","Ehud","Shamgar"] hashtags: ["deliverance","idolatry","judgment","war"] genre: "history" readingTime: 1 type: "adaptive" slug: "JDG/othniel" canonicalId: "JDG.3.7-3.11" chronologicalOrder: 398 relatedSlugs: [] prevSlug: "JDG/nations-left-to-test-israel" nextSlug: "JDG/ehud-shamgar" --- So the [Israelites](/persons/israelites) did evil in the sight of the [LORD](/persons/god); they forgot the LORD their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs. Then the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He sold them into the hand of [Cushan-rishathaim](/persons/cushan-rishathaim) king of Aram-naharaim, and the Israelites served him eight years. But when the Israelites cried out to the LORD, He raised up [Othniel](/persons/othniel) son of [Caleb](/persons/caleb)’s younger brother [Kenaz](/persons/kenaz) as a deliverer to save them. The Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he became Israel’s judge and went out to war. And the LORD delivered Cushan-rishathaim king of Aram into the hand of Othniel, who prevailed against him. So the land had rest for forty years, until Othniel son of Kenaz died.

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