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^(d)The sons of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites;

and ^(e)they took their daughters for themselves as wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

The sons of Israel did ^(f)what was evil in the sight of the Lord , and ^(g)forgot the Lord their God and ^(h)served the Baals and the ^[i]Asheroth.

Then the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, so that He sold them into the hands of Cushan-rishathaim king of ^[j]Mesopotamia; and the sons of Israel served Cushan-rishathaim eight years.

When the sons of Israel cried to the Lord , the Lord raised up a deliverer for the sons of Israel to deliver them, ⁽ⁱ⁾Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.

^(j)The Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he judged Israel. When he went out to war, the Lord gave Cushan-rishathaim king of ^[k]Mesopotamia into his hand, so that ^[l]he prevailed over Cushan-rishathaim.

Then the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died.

Now the sons of Israel again ^(k)did evil in the sight of the Lord . So ^(l)the Lord strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the Lord .

And he gathered to himself the sons of Ammon and Amalek; and he went and ^[m]defeated Israel, and they possessed ^(m)the city of the palm trees.

The sons of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.

But when the sons of Israel ⁽ⁿ⁾cried to the Lord , the Lord raised up a deliverer for them, Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a left-handed man. And the sons of Israel sent tribute by ^[n]him to Eglon the king of Moab.

Ehud made himself a sword which had two edges, a cubit in length, and he bound it on his right thigh under his cloak.