士师记 1:5

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

他們在那裡遇見了比色王，就與他交戰，擊殺了迦南人和比利洗人。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
又 在 那 里 遇 见 亚 多 尼 比 色 ， 与 他 争 战 ， 杀 败 迦 南 人 和 比 利 洗 人 。

Contextual Overview

¹ After Joshua died, the Israelites asked the Lord , "Who will be first to go and fight for us against the Canaanites?" ² The Lord said to them, "The tribe of Judah will go. I have handed the land over to them." ³ The men of Judah said to the men of Simeon, their relatives, "Come and help us fight the Canaanites for our land. If you do, we will go and help you fight for your land." So the men of Simeon went with them. ⁴ When Judah attacked, the Lord handed over the Canaanites and the Perizzites to them, and they defeated ten thousand men at the city of Bezek. ⁵ There they found Adoni-Bezek, the ruler of the city, and fought him. The men of Judah defeated the Canaanites and the Perizzites, ⁶ but Adoni-Bezek ran away. The men of Judah chased him, and when they caught him, they cut off his thumbs and big toes. ⁷ Adoni-Bezek said, "Seventy kings whose thumbs and big toes had been cut off used to eat scraps that fell from my table. Now God has paid me back for what I did to them." The men of Judah took Adoni-Bezek to Jerusalem, and he died there. ⁸ Then the men of Judah fought against Jerusalem and captured it. They attacked with their swords and burned the city.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 11:8 - Bezek

Cross-References

Genesis 1:8
God named the air "sky." Evening passed, and morning came. This was the second day.

Genesis 1:13
Evening passed, and morning came. This was the third day.

Genesis 1:19
Evening passed, and morning came. This was the fourth day.

Genesis 1:23
Evening passed, and morning came. This was the fifth day.

Genesis 1:31
God looked at everything he had made, and it was very good. Evening passed, and morning came. This was the sixth day.

Genesis 8:22
"As long as the earth continues, planting and harvest, cold and hot, summer and winter, day and night will not stop."

Psalms 19:2
Day after day they tell the story; night after night they tell it again.

Psalms 74:16
Both the day and the night are yours; you made the sun and the moon.

Psalms 104:20
You make it dark, and it becomes night. Then all the wild animals creep around.

Isaiah 45:7
I made the light and the darkness. I bring peace, and I cause troubles. I, the Lord , do all these things.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they found Adonibezek in Bezek,.... Who was king of, the place, and whose name signifies lord of Bezek; not that they took him there, for he is afterwards said to make his escape from thence, but here he was when they came against that city, and into which they rushed upon him, and fell upon him as follows:

and they fought against him; entering the city with their forces:

and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites: that were in it, or about it, even to the number of ten thousand, as before related, Judges 1:4.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 1:5. And they found Adoni-bezek — The word מצא matsa, "he found," is used to express a hostile encounter between two parties; to attack, surprise, &c. This is probably its meaning here. Adoni-bezek is literally the lord of Bezek. It is very probable that the different Canaanitish tribes were governed by a sort of chieftains, similar to those among the clans of the ancient Scottish Highlanders. Bezek is said by some to have been in the tribe of Judah. Eusebius and St. Jerome mention two villages of this name, not in the tribe of Judah, but about seventeen miles from Shechem.