Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
Threescore and ten kings - We may infer from this number of conquered kings, that the intestine wars of the Canaanites were among the causes which, under God' s Providence, weakened their resistance to the Israelites. Adoni-Bezek' s cruelty to the subject kings was the cause of his receiving (compare the marginal references) this chastisement. The loss of the thumb would make a man unfit to handle a sword or a bow; the loss of his big toe would impede his speed.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Judges 1:7:
2 Kings 25:28
2 Kings 25:29
Psalms 29:8
Joel 3:8
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