Judges 1:5

And they came across Adoni-zedek, and made war on him; and they overcame the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

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

In Context

4And Judah went up; and the Lord gave the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hands; and they overcame ten thousand of them in Bezek.

6But Adoni-zedek went in flight; and they went after him and overtook him, and had his thumbs and his great toes cut off.

Read all of Judges 1

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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Judges 1:5