In Context

2 The LORD said, |Judah shall go up; behold, I have given the land into his hand.|

3 And Judah said to Simeon his brother, |Come up with me into the territory allotted to me, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with you into the territory allotted to you.| So Simeon went with him.

4 Then Judah went up and the LORD gave the Canaanites and the Per'izzites into their hand; and they defeated ten thousand of them at Bezek.

5 They came upon Ado'ni-be'zek at Bezek, and fought against him, and defeated the Canaanites and the Per'izzites.

6 Ado'ni-be'zek fled; but they pursued him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.

7 And Ado'ni-be'zek said, |Seventy kings with their thumbs and their great toes cut off used to pick up scraps under my table; as I have done, so God has requited me.| And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

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