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OTHNIEL

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 365 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OTHNIEL  , in the

Bible, a clan settled at Debir or Kirjathsepher in S .
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Palestine (Judg. i . 12 sqq., Josh. xv . 16 sqq., contrast Josh. x . 38 seq.), described as the "
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brother " of Caleb . The name appears in Judg. iii . 7-11 (see JUDGES), as that of a here who delivered Israel from a North Syrian king . That a kink from the Euphrates who had subjugated Canaan should have been defeated by a clan of the south of Palestine has beef` doubted . There is no evidence of such a situation, and it has been conjectured that Cushan-Rishathaim (the name suggests " C. of double wickedness "!) of Aram (o,K) has arisen from some king (cp . Husham, Gen.
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xxxvi . 34) or clan (cp .
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Cush, Num. xii .

1; Cushan, Hab. iii . 7) of

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Edom (Du) to the south or south-east of Palestine . Othniel recurs in 1 Chron. iv . 13 . See A . Klostermann, Gesch. d . Volkes Israel (1896), p . 122 ; Cheyne, Ency . Bib. col . 969 seq. and references; also the literature to JUDGES .

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