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Judges 1:6

American Standard Version

But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.

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Judges 1:6 in other translations

But Adoni-Bezek fled. They pursued him, caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his big toes.

Judges 1:6 · World English Bible

Judges 1:6 in context

  1. 4And Judah went up; and Jehovah delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand: and they smote of them in Bezek ten thousand men.
  2. 5And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek; and they fought against him, and they smote the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
  3. 6But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
  4. 7And Adoni-bezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their food under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
  5. 8And the children of Judah fought against Jerusalem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.