4 The Lord left them to test Israel, to determine if they would keep the Lord’s commands He had given their fathers through Moses.
5 But they settled among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
6 The Israelites took their daughters as wives for themselves, gave their own daughters to their sons, and worshiped their gods.
7 The Israelites did what was evil in the Lord’s sight; they forgot the Lord their God and worshiped the Baals and the Asherahs.
8 The Lord’s anger burned against Israel, and He sold them to Cushan-rishathaim king of Aram-naharaim, and the Israelites served him eight years.
9 The Israelites cried out to the Lord. So the Lord raised up Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb’s youngest brother, as a deliverer to save the Israelites.
10 The Spirit of the Lord came on him, and he judged Israel. Othniel went out to battle, and the Lord handed over Cushan-rishathaim king of Aram to him, so that Othniel overpowered him.