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Adoni-bezek used to brag, “Seventy kings without thumbs and big toes used to eat what was left under my table. God has repaid me for what I’ve done.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he later died there.

Then the army of Judah attacked Jerusalem, captured it, executed its inhabitants, and set fire to the city. Later, the army of Judah left Jerusalem[a] to attack the Canaanites who lived in the hill country, the Negev,[b] and the Shephelah.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 1:9 Lit. Judah went down
  2. Judges 1:9 I.e. the southern region of Israel; cf. Josh 10:40
  3. Judges 1:9 I.e. the verdant central lowlands of Israel, and so throughout the book; cf. Josh 10:40