Adoni-bezek in the Bible

Meaning: the lightning of the Lord; the Lord of lightning

Exact Match

They met Adoni-Bezek at Bezek and fought him. They defeated the Canaanites and Perizzites.

Adoni-Bezek said, "Seventy kings, with thumbs and big toes cut off, used to lick up food scraps under my table. God has repaid me for what I did to them." They brought him to Jerusalem, where he died.

Verse ConceptsMutilationRetributionSuffering, Causes OfTablesBrutalityThumbsToesRemaining FoodCutting Off Hands And FeetSeventiesGentile RulersGod Has Requited

Thematic Bible



And Judah went up, and Yahweh delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand, - and they smote them in Bezek, ten thousand men. And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek, and fought with him, - and smote the Canaanites and the Perizzites. But Adoni-bezek fled, and they pursued him, - and took him, and cut off his thumbs, and his great toes. read more.
Then said Adoni-bezek - Seventy kings, with their thumbs and great toes cut off, have been picking up crumbs under my table, as I have done, so, hath God requited me. And they brought him into Jerusalem, and he died there.


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