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Judges 1:6

But Adoni-zedek went in flight; and they went after him and overtook him, and had his thumbs and his great toes cut off.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Adoni-Bezek;   Canaanites;   Captive;   Judah;   Prisoners;   Simeon;   Thumb;   Toe;   Scofield Reference Index - Angels;   Apostasy;   Day (of Jehovah);   Judgments;   Thompson Chain Reference - Beauty-Disfigurement;   Body;   Cruelty;   Kindness-Cruelty;   Mutilation;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Canaanites, the;   Feet, the;   Hands, the;   Judah, the Tribe of;   Punishments;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Adonibezek;   Bezek;   Canaan;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Angels;   Demons;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Judgment, Last;   Judgments of God;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Adonibezek;   Jerusalem;   Judgments of God;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Adoni-Bezek;   Angels;   Deep;   Gomorrah;   Hell;   Jerusalem;   Judges, the Book of;   Lucifer;   Noah;   Olive;   Peter, the Epistles of;   Satan;   Sodom;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Adoni-Bezek;   Judges, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Adoni-Bezek;   Canaanites;   Descent into Hades;   Devil;   Evil;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Idolatry;   Israel;   Jerusalem;   Judges (1);   Numbers, Book of;   Palestine;   Satan;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Angels;   Angels (2);   Chains;   Day and Night;   Day of Judgment;   Demon;   Devil ;   Enoch Book of;   Eschatology;   Eternal Everlasting;   Hell;   Hell ;   Interpretation;   Jude Epistle of;   Metaphor;   Principality Principalities ;   Prison;   Punishment;   Sin;   Sin (2);   Spirits in Prison;   Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs;   Tradition;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Adonibezek;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Dan;   Devil;   Jehoshaphat;   Jerusalem;   Judgment the day of;   Scripture;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Adon'i-Be'zek;   Be'zek;   Punishments;   War;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Chain;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Angel;   Assyria;   Devil;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Reign of the Judges;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Adonibezek;   Angel;   Apocalyptic Literature;   Apostasy;   Blackness;   Chain;   Day of the Lord (Yahweh);   Eternal;   Everlasting;   Hell;   Melchizedek;   Peter, the Second Epistle of;   Prison;   Punishment, Everlasting;   Punishments;   Satan;   Sons of God (Old Testament);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Adoni-Bezek;   Adoni-Zedek;   Bezek;   Cruelty;   Melchizedek;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
When Adoni-bezek fled, they pursued him, caught him, and cut off his thumbs and big toes.
Hebrew Names Version
But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
King James Version
But Adonibezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
Lexham English Bible
And Adoni-bezek fled, but they pursued after him; they caught him and cut off his thumbs and big toes.
English Standard Version
Adoni-bezek fled, but they pursued him and caught him and cut off his thumbs and his big toes.
New Century Version
but Adoni-Bezek ran away. The men of Judah chased him, and when they caught him, they cut off his thumbs and big toes.
New English Translation
When Adoni-Bezek ran away, they chased him and captured him. Then they cut off his thumbs and big toes.
Amplified Bible
But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued him and caught him and cut off his thumbs and his big toes.
New American Standard Bible
But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued him and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and big toes.
Geneva Bible (1587)
But Adoni-bezek fled, and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off the thumbes of his hands and of his feete.
Legacy Standard Bible
And angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day,
Contemporary English Version
Bezek tried to escape, but soldiers from Judah caught him. They cut off his thumbs and big toes,
Complete Jewish Bible
but Adoni-Bezek fled. They pursued him, caught him, and cut off his thumbs and big toes.
Darby Translation
And Adoni-Bezek fled, and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
Easy-to-Read Version
The ruler of Bezek tried to escape, but the men of Judah chased him and caught him. When they caught him, they cut off his thumbs and big toes.
George Lamsa Translation
But the lord of Bezek fled; and they pursued him and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
Good News Translation
He ran away, but they chased him, caught him, and cut off his thumbs and big toes.
Literal Translation
And Adoni-bezek fled, and they pursued him and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his big toes.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But Adoni Besek fled, and they folowed after him: and whan they had ouertaken him, they cut of the thobes of his handes and fete.
American Standard Version
But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But Adonibezek fled, and they folowed after hym, caught hym, and cut of his thombes and his great toes.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
King James Version (1611)
But Adoni-bezek fled, and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbes, and his great toes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Adonibezek fled, and they pursued after him, and took him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
English Revised Version
But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
Berean Standard Bible
As Adoni-bezek fled, they pursued him, seized him, and cut off his thumbs and big toes.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe Adonybozech fledde, whom thei pursueden, and token, and kittiden the endis of hise hondis and feet.
Young's Literal Translation
And Adoni-Bezek fleeth, and they pursue after him, and seize him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes,
Update Bible Version
But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
Webster's Bible Translation
But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
World English Bible
But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
New King James Version
Then Adoni-Bezek fled, and they pursued him and caught him and cut off his thumbs and big toes.
New Living Translation
Adoni-bezek escaped, but the Israelites soon captured him and cut off his thumbs and big toes.
New Life Bible
Adoni-bezek tried to run away, but they went after him and caught him. They cut off his thumbs and big toes.
New Revised Standard
Adoni-bezek fled; but they pursued him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and big toes.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But Adoni-bezek fled, and they pursued him, - and took him, and cut off his thumbs, and his great toes.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Adonibezec fled: and they pursued after him and took him, and cut off his fingers and toes.
Revised Standard Version
Ado'ni-be'zek fled; but they pursued him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued him and caught him and cut off his thumbs and big toes.

Contextual Overview

1 Now after the death of Joshua, the children of Israel made request to the Lord, saying, Who is to go up first to make war for us against the Canaanites? 2 And the Lord said, Judah is to go up: see, I have given the land into his hands. 3 Then Judah said to Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my heritage, so that we may make war against the Canaanites; and I will then go with you into your heritage. So Simeon went with him. 4 And Judah went up; and the Lord gave the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hands; and they overcame ten thousand of them in Bezek. 5 And they came across Adoni-zedek, and made war on him; and they overcame the Canaanites and the Perizzites. 6 But Adoni-zedek went in flight; and they went after him and overtook him, and had his thumbs and his great toes cut off. 7 And Adoni-zedek said, Seventy kings, whose thumbs and great toes had been cut off, got broken meat under my table: as I have done, so has God done to me in full. And they took him to Jerusalem, and he came to his end there. 8 Then the children of Judah made an attack on Jerusalem, and took it, burning down the town after they had put its people to the sword without mercy.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Exodus 14:26 - the waters Exodus 21:24 - General Joshua 15:16 - General Esther 8:12 - one day Psalms 59:11 - Slay Psalms 107:40 - contempt Psalms 149:8 - General Jeremiah 34:17 - behold Jeremiah 50:15 - as she

Cross-References

Genesis 1:5
Naming the light, Day, and the dark, Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.
Genesis 1:6
And God said, Let there be a solid arch stretching over the waters, parting the waters from the waters.
Genesis 1:7
And God made the arch for a division between the waters which were under the arch and those which were over it: and it was so.
Genesis 1:8
And God gave the arch the name of Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.
Genesis 1:11
And God said, Let grass come up on the earth, and plants producing seed, and fruit-trees giving fruit, in which is their seed, after their sort: and it was so.
Genesis 1:12
And grass came up on the earth, and every plant producing seed of its sort, and every tree producing fruit, in which is its seed, of its sort: and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:13
And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.
Genesis 1:14
And God said, Let there be lights in the arch of heaven, for a division between the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for marking the changes of the year, and for days and for years:
Genesis 1:20
And God said, Let the waters be full of living things, and let birds be in flight over the earth under the arch of heaven.
Genesis 1:22
And God gave them his blessing, saying, Be fertile and have increase, making all the waters of the seas full, and let the birds be increased in the earth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But Adonibezek fled, and they pursued after him, and caught him,.... It is very probable his view was to get to Jebus or Jerusalem, a strong and fortified city and he made his way thither as fast as he could, but was pursued and overtaken by some of the forces of Judah and Simeon; and the rather it may seem he took this course, since when he was taken by them, they brought him thither, as follows:

and cut off his thumbs and his great toes; whereby he was disabled both for fighting and for fleeing. So the Athenians cut off the thumbs of the right hand of the Aeginetae, the inhabitants of the island of Aegina, to disable them from holding a spear, as various writers f relate. Whether the Israelites did this, as knowing this king had used others in like manner, and so, according to their law of retaliation, "eye for eye", c. Exodus 21:23, required it or whether, ignorant of it, were so moved and directed by the providence of God to do this, that the same measure might be measured to him which he had measured to others, is not certain; the latter seems most probable, since the Israelites did not usually inflict such sort of punishments; and besides, according to the command of God, they should have put him to death, as they were to do to all Canaanites.

f Valerius Maximus, l. 9. c. 2. Aelian, Var. Hist. l. 2. c. 9. Cicero de Officiis, l. 3. c. 11.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 1:6. Cut off his thumbs — That he might never be able to draw his bow or handle his sword, and great toes, that he might never be able to pursue or escape from an adversary.


 
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