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And Adoni-bezek fled, but they pursued after him; they caught him and cut off his thumbs and big toes.[a] Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes[b] cut off used to pick up scraps under my table; just as I have done, so God has repaid to me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

The descendants[c] of Judah fought against Jerusalem, and they captured it, put it to the sword,[d] and set the city on fire.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 1:6 Literally “the thumbs of his hands and feet”
  2. Judges 1:7 Literally “the thumbs of their hands and feet”
  3. Judges 1:8 Or “sons/children”
  4. Judges 1:8 Literally “they struck it with the mouth of the sword”
  5. Judges 1:8 Literally “the city they sent away with fire”