Judges 1:6-8

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⁶The king tried to escape, but soldiers from Judah caught him. They cut off his thumbs and big toes, ⁷and he said, “I've cut off the thumbs and big toes of 70 kings and made those kings crawl around under my table for scraps of food. Now God is paying me back.”

The army of Judah took the king of Bezek along with them to Jerusalem, where he died. ⁸They attacked Jerusalem,^[a] captured it, killed everyone who lived there, and then burned it to the ground.

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Footnotes

1.8 Jerusalem: This probably refers to towns and villages belonging to Jerusalem but lying in Judah's territory south of the city wall. Jerusalem itself was just inside Benjamin's territory, but was not captured by Israel at this time (see verse 21; Joshua 15.5-9; 18.15-18).