Judges 1:6

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

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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 overtook Adoni-bezek in Bezek, and fought against him; and they smote the Canaanite and the Perizzite.

7And Adoni-bezek said, Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their food under my table: as I therefore have done, so God has recompensed me: and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

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Cross References

Exodus 14:26And the Lord said to Moses, Stretch forth thy hand over the sea, and let the water be turned back to its place, and let it cover the Egyptians coming both upon the chariots and the riders.

Joshua 15:16And Caleb said, Whosoever shall take and destroy the city of Letters, and master it, to him will I give my daughter Achsah to wife.

Psalms 59:11Who will lead me into the fortified city? 1 Who will guide me as far as Edom? 1

Psalms 149:8To bind their kings with fetters, 1 And their nobles with manacles of iron; 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 →

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