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Adoni-Bezek fled, but they pursued him, seized him, and cut off his thumbs and his big toes.

So Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings, with their thumbs and their big toes cut off, had to scrounge for scraps of food under my table. God has repaid me with exactly what I did to them.” Israel brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

The men of Judah waged war against Jerusalem and captured it. They struck the city with the edge[a] of the sword and set it on fire.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 1:8 Literally mouth