When Judah attacked, the Lord gave the Canaanites and Perizzites(A) into their hands, and they struck down ten thousand men at Bezek.(B) It was there that they found Adoni-Bezek(C) and fought against him, putting to rout the Canaanites and Perizzites. Adoni-Bezek fled, but they chased him and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and big toes.

Then Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have picked up scraps under my table. Now God has paid me back(D) for what I did to them.” They brought him to Jerusalem,(E) and he died there.

The men of Judah attacked Jerusalem(F) also and took it. They put the city to the sword and set it on fire.

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