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Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes[a] 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[b] of Judah fought against Jerusalem, and they captured it, put it to the sword,[c] and set the city on fire.[d] Afterward the descendants[e] of Judah pursued to fight against the Canaanites[f] who were living in the hill country, the Negev,[g] and the Shephelah.[h]

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 1:7 Literally “the thumbs of their hands and feet”
  2. Judges 1:8 Or “sons/children”
  3. Judges 1:8 Literally “they struck it with the mouth of the sword”
  4. Judges 1:8 Literally “the city they sent away with fire”
  5. Judges 1:9 Or “sons/children”
  6. Judges 1:9 Hebrew “Canaanite”
  7. Judges 1:9 An arid region south of the Judean hills
  8. Judges 1:9 A geographical region associated with an area of low country on the western edge of the Judaean hills.