Judges 1:6

Contemporary English Version

Bezek tried to escape, but soldiers from Judah caught him. They cut off his thumbs and big toes,

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,

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.

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

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 After the death of Joshua, the Israelites asked the Lord , "Which of our tribes should attack the Canaanites first?" ² "Judah!" the Lord answered. "I'll help them take the land." ³ The people of Judah went to their relatives, the Simeon tribe, and said, "Canaanites live in the land God gave us. Help us fight them, and we will help you." Troops from Simeon came to help Judah. ⁴Together they attacked an army of ten thousand Canaanites and Perizzites at Bezek, and the Lord helped Judah defeat them. During the battle, Judah's army found out where the king of Bezek was, and they attacked there. ⁶ Bezek tried to escape, but soldiers from Judah caught him. They cut off his thumbs and big toes, ⁷ and he said, "I've cut off the thumbs and big toes of seventy kings and made those kings crawl around under my table for scraps of food. Now God is paying me back." The army of Judah took the king of Bezek along with them to Jerusalem, where he died. ⁸ They attacked Jerusalem, captured it, killed everyone who lived there, and then burned it to the ground.

Bible Verse Review
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Cross-References

Genesis 1:5
and named the light "Day" and the darkness "Night." Evening came and then morning—that was the first day.

Genesis 1:6

The Second Day

God said, "I command a dome to separate the water above it from the water below it."

Genesis 1:7
And that's what happened. God made the dome

Genesis 1:8
and named it "Sky." Evening came and then morning—that was the second day.

Genesis 1:11
God said, "I command the earth to produce all kinds of plants, including fruit trees and grain." And that's what happened.

Genesis 1:12
The earth produced all kinds of vegetation. God looked at what he had done, and it was good.

Genesis 1:13
Evening came and then morning—that was the third day.

Genesis 1:14

The Fourth Day

God said, "I command lights to appear in the sky and to separate day from night and to show the time for seasons, special days, and years.

Genesis 1:20

The Fifth Day

God said, "I command the ocean to be full of living creatures, and I command birds to fly above the earth."

Genesis 1:22
Then he gave the living creatures his blessing—he told the ocean creatures to live everywhere in the ocean and the birds to live everywhere on 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.