Judges 1:6

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

Bible in Basic English

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

7And Adoni-zedek said, Seventy kings, whose thumbs and great toes had been cut off, got broken meat under my table: as I have done, so has God done to me in full. And they took him to Jerusalem, and he came to his end there.

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Cross References

Exodus 14:26And the Lord said to Moses, Let your hand be stretched out over the sea, and the waters will come back again on the Egyptians, and on their war-carriages and on their horsemen.

Joshua 15:16And Caleb said, I will give Achsah, my daughter, as wife to the man who overcomes Kiriath-sepher and takes it.

Psalms 59:11\59:10\The God of my mercy will go before me: God will let me see my desire effected on my haters.

Psalms 149:8To put their kings in chains, and their rulers in bands of iron;

Jeremiah 50:15Give a loud cry against her on every side; she has given herself up, her supports are overturned, her walls are broken down: for it is the payment taken by the Lord; give her payment; as she has done, so 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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