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Literal Standard Version

Judges 1:6

And Adoni-Bezek flees, and they pursue after him, and seize him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes,

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.
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

1And it comes to pass after the death of Joshua, that the sons of Israel ask of YHWH, saying, "Who goes up for us to the Canaanite, at the commencement, to fight against it?" 2And YHWH says, "Judah goes up; behold, I have given the land into his hand." 3And Judah says to his brother Simeon, "Go up with me into my lot, and we fight against the Canaanite—and I have gone, even I, with you into your lot"; and Simeon goes with him. 4And Judah goes up, and YHWH gives the Canaanite and the Perizzite into their hand, and they strike them in Bezek—ten thousand men; 5and they find Adoni-Bezek in Bezek, and fight against him, and strike the Canaanite and the Perizzite. 6And Adoni-Bezek flees, and they pursue after him, and seize him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes,7and Adoni-Bezek says, "Seventy kings—their thumbs and their great toes cut off—have been gathering under my table; as I have done so God has repaid to me"; and they bring him to Jerusalem, and he dies there. 8And the sons of Judah fight against Jerusalem, and capture it, and strike it by the mouth of the sword, and they have sent the city into fire;

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
and God calls the light "Day," and the darkness He has called "Night"; and there is an evening, and there is a morning—[the] first day.
Genesis 1:6
And God says, "Let an expanse be in the midst of the waters, and let it be separating between waters and waters."
Genesis 1:7
And God makes the expanse, and it separates between the waters which [are] under the expanse, and the waters which [are] above the expanse: and it is so.
Genesis 1:8
And God calls the expanse "Heavens"; and there is an evening, and there is a morning—[the] second day.
Genesis 1:11
And God says, "Let the earth yield tender grass, herb sowing seed, fruit-tree (whose seed [is] in itself) making fruit after its kind, on the earth": and it is so.
Genesis 1:12
And the earth brings forth tender grass, herb sowing seed after its kind, and tree making fruit (whose seed [is] in itself) after its kind; and God sees that [it is] good;
Genesis 1:13
and there is an evening, and there is a morning—[the] third day.
Genesis 1:14
And God says, "Let luminaries be in the expanse of the heavens, to make a separation between the day and the night, then they have been for signs, and for appointed times, and for days and years,
Genesis 1:20
And God says, "Let the waters teem with the teeming living creature, and let [the] bird fly above the earth on the face of the expanse of the heavens."
Genesis 1:22
And God blesses them, saying, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the bird multiply 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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