World English Bible
Judges 1:5
“They found Adoni-Bezek in Bezek; and they fought against him, and they struck the Canaanites and the Perizzites.”
Verse in context — Judges 1
Judah said to Simeon his brother, "Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with you into your lot." So Simeon went with him.
Judah went up; and Yahweh delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand: and they struck of them in Bezek ten thousand men.
They found Adoni-Bezek in Bezek; and they fought against him, and they struck the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
But Adoni-Bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
Adoni-Bezek said, "Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered [their food] under my table: as I have done, so God has requited me." They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
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A cycle of sin, oppression, repentance, and deliverance in Israel’s early history.
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