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Adoni-bezek was a defeated king captured by Judah. They cut off his thumbs and big toes, and he said he had done the same to seventy kings, viewing it as payback (Judges 1:5–7). He was brought to Jerusalem, where he died (Judges 1:7).
5They found Adoni-bezek in Bezek; and they fought against him, and they struck the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
6But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
7Adoni-bezek said, "Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered [their food] under my table: as I have done, so God has requited me." They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.