Judges 1:7

Judges 1:7

5 And they found Adoni-Bezek in Bezek, and fought against him; and they defeated the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

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

7 And Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off used to gather scraps under my table; ^aas I have done, so God has repaid me.” Then they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.

8 Now ^athe children of Judah fought against Jerusalem and took it; they struck it with the edge of the sword and set the city on fire.

9 ^aAnd afterward the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites who dwelt in the mountains, in the¹ South, and in the lowland.

Commentaries:

Barnes' Notes

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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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