Judges 1:6

But Adoni-bezek fled, and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.

In Context

5And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek, and they fought against him, and they smote the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

7And Adoni-bezek said, Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered [scraps] under my table. As I have done, so God has requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

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Cross References

Exodus 14:26And LORD said to Moses, Stretch out thy hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.

Joshua 15:16And Caleb said, He who smites Kiriath-sepher, and takes it, to him I will give Achsah my daughter to wife.

Psalms 59:11Kill them not, lest my people forget. Scatter them by thy power, and bring them down, O LORD our shield,

Psalms 149:8to bind their kings with chains, and their ranking men with fetters of iron,

Jeremiah 50:15Shout against her round about. She has submitted herself. Her bulwarks are fallen. Her walls are thrown down. For it is the vengeance of LORD. Take vengeance upon her. As she has done, do to her.

Matthew Henry on Judges 1:2-9

Judges This is called the Hebrew Shepher Shophtim, the Book of Judges, which the Syriac and Arabic versions enlarge upon, and call it, The Book of the Judges of the Children of Israel; the judgments of that nation being peculiar, so were their judges, whose office differed vastly from that of the judges of other nations. The LXX. entitles it only Kritai, Judges. It is the history of the commonwealth of Israel, during the government of the judges from Othniel to Eli, so much of it as God saw fit to transmit to us.… Read the whole commentary →

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