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Adoni-bezek
A person first named at Judges 1:5.
Where in scripture
JudgesThey found Adoni-Bezek in Bezek, and they fought against him. They struck the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
Judges 1:5
But Adoni-Bezek fled. They pursued him, caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his big toes.
Judges 1:6
Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their big toes cut off, scavenged under my table. As I have done, so God has done to me.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
Judges 1:7
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, a public-domain translation.
In their own words — 1 recorded saying
“And 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.” — Judges 1:7
Speaker attribution: Clear Bible MACULA (CC BY 4.0). Wording: Bible in Basic English (public domain).