This was not necessarily the case. The report of his death “rather serves to close this episode and simultaneously to prepare the way for the announcement of Israel’s renewed apostasy in Judges 3:12."1
This was not necessarily the case. The report of his death “rather serves to close this episode and simultaneously to prepare the way for the announcement of Israel’s renewed apostasy in Judges 3:12."1
11 So the land had rest forty years. Then Othniel the son of Kenaz died.