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They met[a] Adoni-Bezek at Bezek and fought him. They defeated the Canaanites and Perizzites. When Adoni-Bezek ran away, they chased him and captured him. Then they cut off his thumbs and big toes. Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings, with thumbs and big toes cut off, used to lick up[b] food scraps[c] under my table. God has repaid me for what I did to them.”[d] They brought him to Jerusalem, where he died.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 1:5 tn Or “found.”
  2. Judges 1:7 tn Elsewhere this verb usually carries the sense of “to gather; to pick up; to glean,” but “lick up” seems best here in light of the peculiar circumstances described by Adoni-Bezek.
  3. Judges 1:7 tn The words “food scraps” are not in the Hebrew text, but are implied.
  4. Judges 1:7 tn Heb “Just as I did, so God has repaid me.” Note that the phrase “to them” has been supplied in the translation to clarify what is meant.