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.

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