Bezek in the Bible

Meaning: lightning; in the chains

Exact Match

The men of Judah attacked, and the Lord handed the Canaanites and Perizzites over to them. They killed ten thousand men at Bezek.

Verse ConceptsInvasionsTens Of ThousandsThose God Gave Into Their Hands

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 when they were numbered in Bezek, the children of Israel were three hundredth thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.


And they found Adonibezek in Bezek. And they fought against him, and slew the Cananites and Perezites.


References

Hastings

Easton

American

Fausets

Morish

Smith