3. namely, five cardinals of the Philistines and all the Canaanites and the Sidonians and the Hivites that dwelt in Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baalhermon unto the entering in of Hamath.
4. These, therefore, were left to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the Lord, which he had commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.
5. And as the sons of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites,
6. they took their daughters to be their wives and gave their daughters to their sons and served their gods.
7. And the sons of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord and forgot the Lord their God and served the Baalim and the groves.
8. Therefore the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia, and the sons of Israel served Chushanrishathaim eight years.
9. And when the sons of Israel cried unto the Lord, the Lord raised up a saviour to the sons of Israel, who saved them, even Othniel, the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother.
10. And the Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he judged Israel and went out to war; and the Lord delivered Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand, and his hand prevailed against Chushanrishathaim.
11. And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel, the son of Kenaz, died.
12. And the sons of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord strengthened Eglon, the king of Moab, against Israel because they had done evil in the sight of the Lord.
13. And he gathered unto him the sons of Ammon and of Amalek and went and smote Israel and took the city of palm trees.
14. So the sons of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
15. But when the sons of Israel cried unto the Lord, the Lord raised them up a saviour, Ehud, the son of Gera, a son of Jemini, {Benjamin} a man, who had his right hand impeded, and by him the sons of Israel sent a present unto Eglon, the king of Moab.