Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Adoni-Bezek fled, but they chased him and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and big toes. New Living Translation Adoni-bezek escaped, but the Israelites soon captured him and cut off his thumbs and big toes. English Standard Version Adoni-bezek fled, but they pursued him and caught him and cut off his thumbs and his big toes. Berean Standard Bible As Adoni-bezek fled, they pursued him, seized him, and cut off his thumbs and big toes. King James Bible But Adonibezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes. New King James Version Then Adoni-Bezek fled, and they pursued him and caught him and cut off his thumbs and big toes. New American Standard Bible But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued him and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and big toes. NASB 1995 But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued him and caught him and cut off his thumbs and big toes. NASB 1977 But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued him and caught him and cut off his thumbs and big toes. Legacy Standard Bible But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued him and seized him and cut off his thumbs and big toes. Amplified Bible But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued him and caught him and cut off his thumbs and his big toes. Christian Standard Bible When Adoni-bezek fled, they pursued him, caught him, and cut off his thumbs and big toes. Holman Christian Standard Bible When Adoni-bezek fled, they pursued him, seized him, and cut off his thumbs and big toes. American Standard Version But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes. Aramaic Bible in Plain English And the Master of Bezeq fled and they chased after him, and they caught him and they cut off the thumbs and big toes of his hands and of his feet Brenton Septuagint Translation And Adonibezek fled, and they pursued after him, and took him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes. Contemporary English Version The king tried to escape, but soldiers from Judah caught him. They cut off his thumbs and big toes, Douay-Rheims Bible And Adonibezec fled: and they pursued after him and took him, and cut off his fingers and toes. English Revised Version But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes. GOD'S WORD® Translation Adoni Bezek fled. Judah's troops chased him, caught him, and cut off his thumbs and big toes. Good News Translation He ran away, but they chased him, caught him, and cut off his thumbs and big toes. International Standard Version Adoni-bezek ran off, but they pursued him, caught him, and amputated his thumbs and big toes. JPS Tanakh 1917 But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes. Literal Standard Version And Adoni-Bezek flees, and they pursue after him, and seize him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes, Majority Standard Bible As Adoni-bezek fled, they pursued him, seized him, and cut off his thumbs and big toes. New American Bible Adonibezek fled. They pursued him, and when they caught him, they cut off his thumbs and big toes. NET Bible When Adoni-Bezek ran away, they chased him and captured him. Then they cut off his thumbs and big toes. New Revised Standard Version Adoni-bezek fled; but they pursued him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and big toes. New Heart English Bible But Adoni-Bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes. Webster's Bible Translation But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes. World English Bible But Adoni-Bezek fled. They pursued him, caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his big toes. Young's Literal Translation And Adoni-Bezek fleeth, and they pursue after him, and seize him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes, Additional Translations ... Context Conquest of Canaan Proceeds…5And there they found Adoni-bezek and fought against him, striking down the Canaanites and Perizzites. 6As Adoni-bezek fled, they pursued him, seized him, and cut off his thumbs and big toes. 7Then Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have gathered the scraps under my table. As I have done to them, so God has repaid me.” And they brought him to Jerusalem, where he died.… Cross References Exodus 29:20 Slaughter the ram, take some of its blood, and put it on the right earlobes of Aaron and his sons, on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet. Sprinkle the remaining blood on all sides of the altar. Judges 1:5 And there they found Adoni-bezek and fought against him, striking down the Canaanites and Perizzites. Judges 1:7 Then Adoni-bezek said, "Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have gathered the scraps under my table. As I have done to them, so God has repaid me." And they brought him to Jerusalem, where he died. Treasury of Scripture But Adonibezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes. Jump to Previous Adonibezek Adoni-Bezek Ado'ni-Be'zek Adoni-Zedek Big Caught Chased Cut Overtook Pursue Pursued Seize Thumbs ToesJump to Next Adonibezek Adoni-Bezek Ado'ni-Be'zek Adoni-Zedek Big Caught Chased Cut Overtook Pursue Pursued Seize Thumbs ToesJudges 1 1. The acts of Judah and Simeon4. Adonibezek justly requited 8. Jerusalem taken 10. Hebron taken 11. Othniel has Achsah to wife for taking of Debir 16. The Kenites dwell in Judah 17. Hormah, Gaza, Askelon, and Ekron taken 21. The acts of Benjamin 22. Of the house of Joseph, who take Bethel 30. Of Zebulun 31. Of Asher 33. Of Naphtali 34. Of Dan (6) Cut off his thumbs and his great toes.--The cutting off of his thumbs would prevent him from ever again drawing a bow or wielding a sword. Romans who desired to escape conscription cut off their thumbs (Suet. Aug. 24). The cutting off of his great toes would deprive him of that speed which was so essential for an ancient warrior, that "swift-footed" is in Homer the normal epithet of Achilles. Either of these mutilations would be sufficient to rob him of his throne, since ancient races never tolerated a king who had any personal defects. This kind of punishment was not uncommon in ancient days, and it was with the same general object that the Athenians inflicted it on the conquered 'ginetans. Mohammed (Koran, Sur. 8:12) ordered the enemies of Islam to be thus punished; and it used to be the ancient German method of punishing poachers ('lian, Var. Hist. ii. 9). The peculiar appropriateness of the punishment in this instance arose from the Lex talionis, or "law of equivalent punishment," which Moses had tolerated as the best means to limit the intensity of those blood-feuds (Leviticus 24:19-20; Deuteronomy 19:21; comp. Judges 15:10-11). which, "because of the hardness of their hearts," he was unable entirely to abolish.Verse 6. - Cut off his thumbs, etc. These cruel mutilations, like the still more cruel one of putting out the eyes (Judges 16:21; Numbers 16:14; 1 Samuel 11:2; 2 Kings 25:7), were intended to cripple the warrior in his speed, and to incapacitate hint from the use of the bow, or sword, or spear, while yet sparing his life, either in mercy, or for the purpose of retaining his services for the conqueror. CHAPTER 1:8-20 Hebrew As Adoni-bezekבֶ֔זֶק (ḇe·zeq) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 137: Adoni-bezek -- 'lord of Bezek', a ruler in Canaan fled, וַיָּ֙נָס֙ (way·yā·nās) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 5127: To flit, vanish away they pursued him, וַֽיִּרְדְּפ֖וּ (way·yir·də·p̄ū) Preposition | third person masculine singular Strong's 7291: To pursue, chase, persecute seized him, וַיֹּאחֲז֣וּ (way·yō·ḥă·zū) Direct object marker | third person masculine singular Strong's 270: To grasp, take hold, take possession and cut off וַֽיְקַצְּצ֔וּ (way·qaṣ·ṣə·ṣū) Direct object marker Strong's 7112: To chop off his thumbs בְּהֹנ֥וֹת (bə·hō·nō·wṯ) Noun - fdc | third person masculine singular Strong's 931: The thumb of the hand, great toe of the foot and big toes. וְרַגְלָֽיו׃ (wə·raḡ·lāw) Conjunctive waw | Noun - fdc | third person masculine singular Strong's 7272: A foot, a step, the pudenda Links Judges 1:6 NIVJudges 1:6 NLT Judges 1:6 ESV Judges 1:6 NASB Judges 1:6 KJV Judges 1:6 BibleApps.com Judges 1:6 Biblia Paralela Judges 1:6 Chinese Bible Judges 1:6 French Bible Judges 1:6 Catholic Bible OT History: Judges 1:6 But Adoni-Bezek fled (Jd Judg. 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