in sacred history, the son of Micha, of the tribe of Simeon, one of the governors of Bethulia when it was besieged by Holosceres. He vigorously supported the siege against this general, and received Achior into his house, when he had been driven from the Assyrian camp. Finding however at length that the city was reduced to great necessity for water, and that the people mutinied against him, he promised to surrender the place in five days, if in that time God did not send them relief. Judith (vi. vii. viii. ix. and x.) being informed of this resolution, sent to speak with Ozias and the other leading men of the city; made a prudent remonstrance upon their seeming to preferbe a time to the Lord, in which he might succour them; encouraged them to patience; and without discovering her design, told them that she would go out in the night. Ozias being at the gate of the city when Judith departed, opened it to her, and waited in the city for the success of her undertaking, praying with her people to God that he would be pleased to deliver them. See the article JUDITH.