Judges 1:6

But Adoni-Bezek fled, and they pursued him and caught him, and they cut off his thumbs and his big toes.

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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

5They found Adoni-Bezek at Bezek, and they fought against him and defeated the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

7Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings, who had their thumbs and their big toes cut off, gathered their food from under my table. As I have done, even so God has done to me.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

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Cross References

Exodus 14:26Yahweh said to Moses, “Reach out with your hand over the sea so that the waters may come back onto the Egyptians, their chariots, and their horsemen.”

Joshua 15:16Caleb said, “The man who attacks Kiriath Sepher and captures it, to him I will give Aksah my daughter as a wife.”

Psalms 59:11Do not kill them, or my people will forget. 1 Scatter them by your power and make them fall, Lord our shield. 1

Psalms 149:8They will bind their kings with chains 1 and their nobles with iron shackles. 1

Jeremiah 50:15Raise a shout against her all around! She has surrendered; her towers have fallen; 1 her walls are torn down, for this is Yahweh's vengeance. 1 Take vengeance on her! Do to her just as she has done! 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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