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Adoni-bezek אֲדֹנִי־בֶ֫זֶק
King. Adoni-bezek was a Canaanite king who was defeated by the men of Judah, and had his thumbs and big toes cut off as he had done to seventy other kings.
Where Adoni-bezek appears
Judges (3)
Key verses
- Judges 1:5 first mention — And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek: and they fought against him, and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
- Judges 1:6 — But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
- Judges 1:7 — And Adoni-bezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.
Person data: STEPBible.org TIPNR, Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0), adapted. Verse text: King James Version.