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King James Jud 1:6 But Adonibezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.

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ADONIBEZEK Lord of Bezek, a Canaanite tyrant of Bezek, east of Shechem. Having taken seventy of the neighboring petty chiefs, he disabled them by cutting off their thumbs and great toes, and fed them like dogs. The same barbarous treatment was meted out to him, when defeated at the head of an army of Canaanites and Perizzites, by Judah and Simeon, Jud 1:4-7.
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