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Judges 1:7-9
New Catholic Bible
Judges 1:7-9
New Catholic Bible
7 Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings who had their thumbs and big toes cut off used to scrounge for their meals under my table. God has paid me back for what I have done.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
8 The Judahites fought against Jerusalem and they captured it, putting it to the sword and setting the city on fire.[a] 9 After this, the Judahites went down to fight against the Canaanites living in the hill country, the Negeb, and the western slopes.
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- Judges 1:8 Jerusalem will in fact be captured only in the time of David and he named it for himself, “The City of David” (2 Sam 5:6-9).
