{
  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "kind": "event",
  "id": "othniel-delivers",
  "era": "conquest-judges",
  "order": 102,
  "title": "Othniel and the first deliverance",
  "group": "judges-deliverers",
  "date": {
    "kind": "relative",
    "label": "Eight years of oppression · Then forty years of rest"
  },
  "summary": "Israel forgets the LORD and serves the Baals and Asherahs. After eight years under Cushan-rishathaim, the people cry out. The LORD raises Othniel, His Spirit comes upon him, and the land has rest for forty years.",
  "context": "Othniel is already known from the Caleb and Acsah account. This brief narrative introduces the pattern of forgetting, oppression, appeal and deliverance. It does not locate the battle or supply a calendar year.",
  "question": "What does the repeated verb remembering—or its absence—tell us about the root problem?",
  "locationNote": "No battlefield or place of judgment is named for this deliverance. Othniel’s family connection with Hebron does not establish where he fought.",
  "passages": [
    {
      "reference": "Judges 3:7–11",
      "range": [
        7003007,
        7003011
      ],
      "translation": "bsb",
      "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Judges%203%3A7%E2%80%9311&version=BSB",
      "availability": "bundled",
      "verses": [
        {
          "book": "Judges",
          "chapter": 3,
          "verse": 7,
          "text": "So the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD; they forgot the LORD their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs."
        },
        {
          "book": "Judges",
          "chapter": 3,
          "verse": 8,
          "text": "Then the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim king of Aram-naharaim, and the Israelites served him eight years."
        },
        {
          "book": "Judges",
          "chapter": 3,
          "verse": 9,
          "text": "But when the Israelites cried out to the LORD, He raised up Othniel son of Caleb’s younger brother Kenaz as a deliverer to save them."
        },
        {
          "book": "Judges",
          "chapter": 3,
          "verse": 10,
          "text": "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."
        },
        {
          "book": "Judges",
          "chapter": 3,
          "verse": 11,
          "text": "So the land had rest for forty years, until Othniel son of Kenaz died."
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "related": [
    {
      "range": [
        5008011,
        5008020
      ],
      "kind": "teaching",
      "note": "Moses warns that forgetting the LORD and following other gods endangers Israel’s life in the land.",
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 8:11–20",
      "translation": "bsb",
      "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%208%3A11%E2%80%9320&version=BSB"
    }
  ],
  "places": [],
  "mapPeriod": "iron-i",
  "further": [],
  "provenance": {
    "sources": [
      {
        "name": "editorial",
        "ref": "content/authored/conquest-judges.json"
      }
    ],
    "review": "draft"
  },
  "eraName": "Conquest & Judges",
  "interactiveUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/?event=othniel-delivers",
  "attribution": [
    "Place coordinates from OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, CC BY 4.0.",
    "Teaching stops, summaries and regional extents are original editorial content of this atlas.",
    "Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. https://berean.bible/licensing.htm"
  ],
  "translation": "bsb",
  "url": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/othniel-delivers/",
  "markdownUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/othniel-delivers/index.md",
  "jsonUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/othniel-delivers/index.json",
  "cautions": "Narrative order is a reading arrangement, not a proven chronology. Dates retain their stated uncertainty. An identified locality does not establish the exact venue or prove an event. Region extents and routes are illustrative, not surveyed boundaries or ancient roads. Draft material has not completed editorial review.",
  "revision": "dd37fb6f79923d39"
}