Judges 3:1-11

1 These are the nations the LORD left to test all those Israelites who had not experienced any of the wars in Canaan
2 (he did this only to teach warfare to the descendants of the Israelites who had not had previous battle experience):
3 the five rulers of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites living in the Lebanon mountains from Mount Baal Hermon to Lebo Hamath.
4 They were left to test the Israelites to see whether they would obey the LORD’s commands, which he had given their ancestors through Moses.
5 The Israelites lived among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.
6 They took their daughters in marriage and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

Othniel

7 The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD; they forgot the LORD their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs.
8 The anger of the LORD burned against Israel so that he sold them into the hands of Cushan-Rishathaim king of Aram Naharaim,[a] to whom the Israelites were subject for eight years.
9 But when they cried out to the LORD, he raised up for them a deliverer, Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, who saved them.
10 The Spirit of the LORD came on him, so that he became Israel’s judge[b] and went to war. The LORD gave Cushan-Rishathaim king of Aram into the hands of Othniel, who overpowered him.
11 So the land had peace for forty years, until Othniel son of Kenaz died.

Cross References 27

  • 1. S Exodus 15:25; Judges 2:21-22
  • 2. S Joshua 13:3
  • 3. S Genesis 10:14
  • 4. S Genesis 10:17; S Exodus 3:8
  • 5. S Deuteronomy 3:8
  • 6. S Numbers 13:21
  • 7. S Exodus 15:25; Deuteronomy 8:2; Judges 2:22
  • 8. Psalms 106:35
  • 9. S Joshua 3:10
  • 10. S Joshua 11:3; Ezra 9:1
  • 11. Ezra 10:18; Nehemiah 13:23; Malachi 2:11
  • 12. S Exodus 34:16; Deuteronomy 7:3-4
  • 13. S Deuteronomy 7:16
  • 14. Deuteronomy 4:9; S Deuteronomy 32:18; Judges 8:34; Psalms 78:11,42; Psalms 106:7; Jeremiah 23:27
  • 15. S Exodus 34:13; S Judges 2:11,13; 1 Kings 16:33; 2 Chronicles 34:7; Isaiah 17:8
  • 16. Judges 2:14; Psalms 44:12; Isaiah 50:1; Isaiah 52:3
  • 17. ver 10
  • 18. S Genesis 24:10
  • 19. ver 15; Judges 6:6,7; Judges 10:10; 1 Samuel 12:10; Psalms 106:44; Psalms 107:13
  • 20. S Deuteronomy 28:29; Nehemiah 9:27
  • 21. S Joshua 15:17; Judges 1:13
  • 22. S Numbers 11:25,29; Numbers 24:2; Judges 6:34; Judges 11:29; Judges 13:25; Judges 14:6,19; Judges 15:14; 1 Samuel 11:6; 1 Samuel 16:13; 1 Kings 18:46; 1 Chronicles 12:18; 2Ch Numbers 24:20; Isaiah 11:2
  • 23. ver 8
  • 24. S Genesis 10:22
  • 25. ver 30; S Joshua 14:15; Judges 5:31; Judges 8:28
  • 26. S Exodus 16:35
  • 27. S Joshua 15:17

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