Judges 1:6
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“As Adoni-bezek fled, they pursued him, seized him, and cut off his thumbs and big toes.”
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“As Adoni-bezek fled, they pursued him, seized him, and cut off his thumbs and big toes.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“But Adoni–bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.”
King James Version · Public Domain“But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And Adoni-Bezek fleeth, and they pursue after him, and seize him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Judges 1:6 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 14:26Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea, so that the waters may flow back over the Egyptians and their chariots and horsemen.”
- Exodus 21:24eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
- Joshua 15:16And Caleb said, “To the man who strikes down Kiriath-sepher and captures it, I will give my daughter Acsah in marriage.”
- Esther 8:12The single day appointed throughout all the provinces of King Xerxes was the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar.
- Psalms 59:11Do not kill them, or my people will forget. Scatter them by Your power, and bring them down, O Lord, our shield.
- Psalms 107:40He pours out contempt on the nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.
- Psalms 149:8to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with shackles of iron,
- Jeremiah 34:17Therefore this is what the LORD says: You have not obeyed Me; you have not proclaimed freedom, each man for his brother and for his neighbor. So now I proclaim freedom for you, declares the LORD—freedom to fall by sword, by plague, and by famine! I will make you a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
- Jeremiah 50:15Raise a war cry against her on every side! She has thrown up her hands in surrender; her towers have fallen; her walls are torn down. Since this is the vengeance of the LORD, take out your vengeance upon her; as she has done, do the same to her.
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