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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.

After that, the men of Judah went down to wage war against the Canaanites who lived in the hill country, in the Negev, and in the Shephelah.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 1:8 Literally mouth
  2. Judges 1:9 The hill country is the central mountain ridge of Israel. The Negev is the arid southern wilderness. The Shephelah is the western foothills.