When the children of Israel cried to Yahweh, Yahweh raised up a savior to the children of Israel, who saved them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.
Mesopotamia (Judges 3:8) was at this time, ". . . the fertile land east of the river Orontes covering the upper and middle Euphrates and the lands watered by the rivers Habur and Tigris, i.e., modern E Syria and N Iraq." [Note: The New Bible Dictionary, 1962 ed., s.v., "Mesopotamia," by D. J. Wiseman.] 