Judges 1:5

THE MESSAGE

They caught up with My-Master-Bezek there and fought him. They smashed the Canaanites and the Perizzites. My-Master-Bezek ran, but they gave chase and caught him. They cut off his thumbs and big toes. My-Master-Bezek said, "Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off used to crawl under my table, scavenging. Now God has done to me what I did to them." They brought him to Jerusalem and he died there.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They found Adoni-bezek in Bezek, fought against him, and struck down the Canaanites and Perizzites.

Hebrew Names Version
They found Adoni-bezek in Bezek; and they fought against him, and they struck the Kana`anim and the Perizzi.

King James Version
And they found Adonibezek in Bezek: and they fought against him, and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

Lexham English Bible
At Bezek they came upon Adoni-bezek, and they fought against him and defeated the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

English Standard Version
They found Adoni-bezek at Bezek and fought against him and defeated the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

New Century Version
There they found Adoni-Bezek, the ruler of the city, and fought him. The men of Judah defeated the Canaanites and the Perizzites,

New English Translation
They met Adoni-Bezek at Bezek and fought him. They defeated the Canaanites and Perizzites.

Amplified Bible
Then they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek and fought against him, and they struck down in defeat the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

New American Standard Bible
They found Adoni-bezek in Bezek and fought against him, and they defeated the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And they founde Adoni-bezek in Bezek: and they fought against him, and slewe the Canaanites, and the Perizzites.

Legacy Standard Bible
Now I want to remind you, though you know all things, that Jesus, having once saved a people out of the land of Egypt, subsequently destroyed those who did not believe.

Complete Jewish Bible
They found Adoni-Bezek in Bezek; and they fought against him. They killed the Kena‘ani and the P'rizi,

Darby Translation
And they found Adoni-Bezek in Bezek, and fought against him, and they smote the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

Easy-to-Read Version
In the city of Bezek, they found the ruler of Bezek and fought him, and they defeated the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

George Lamsa Translation
And they found the lord of Bezek in Bezek; and they fought against him, and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

Good News Translation
They found Adonibezek there and fought him.

Literal Translation
And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek, and fought against him, and struck the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
& they foude Adoni Besek at Besek, & foughte agaynst him, and slewe the Cananites and Pheresites.

American Standard Version
And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek; and they fought against him, and they smote the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

Bible in Basic English
And they came across Adoni-zedek, and made war on him; and they overcame the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And they found Adonibezek in Bezek: And they fought against him, and slue the Chanaanites and Pherezites.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek; and they fought against him, and they smote the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

King James Version (1611)
And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek: and they fought against him, and they slew the Canaanites, and the Perizzites.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they overtook Adonibezek in Bezek, and fought against him; and they smote the Chananite and the Pherezite.

English Revised Version
And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek: and they fought against him, and they smote the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

Berean Standard Bible
And there they found Adoni-bezek and fought against him, striking down the Canaanites and Perizzites.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei founden Adonybozech in Besech, and thei fouyten ayens hym, and smytiden Cananei, and Feresey.

Young's Literal Translation
and they find Adoni-Bezek in Bezek, and fight against him, and smite the Canaanite and the Perizzite.

Update Bible Version
And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek; and they fought against him, and they smote the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

Webster's Bible Translation
And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek: and they fought against him, and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

World English Bible
They found Adoni-bezek in Bezek; and they fought against him, and they struck the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

New King James Version
And they found Adoni-Bezek in Bezek, and fought against him; and they defeated the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

New Living Translation
While at Bezek they encountered King Adoni-bezek and fought against him, and the Canaanites and Perizzites were defeated.

New Life Bible
They found Adoni-bezek in Bezek and fought against him, and they won the war against the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

New Revised Standard
They came upon Adoni-bezek at Bezek, and fought against him, and defeated the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek, and fought with him, - and smote the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they found Adonibezec in Bezec, and fought against him, and they defeated the Chanaanite, and the Pherezite.

Revised Standard Version
They came upon Ado'ni-be'zek at Bezek, and fought against him, and defeated the Canaanites and the Per'izzites.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
They found Adoni-bezek in Bezek and fought against him, and they defeated the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

Contextual Overview

¹ A time came after the death of Joshua when the People of Israel asked God , "Who will take the lead in going up against the Canaanites to fight them?" ² And God said, "Judah will go. I've given the land to him." ³ The men of Judah said to those of their brother Simeon, "Go up with us to our territory and we'll fight the Canaanites. Then we'll go with you to your territory." And Simeon went with them. ⁴ So Judah went up. God gave them the Canaanites and the Perizzites. They defeated them at Bezek—ten military units! ⁵They caught up with My-Master-Bezek there and fought him. They smashed the Canaanites and the Perizzites. My-Master-Bezek ran, but they gave chase and caught him. They cut off his thumbs and big toes. My-Master-Bezek said, "Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off used to crawl under my table, scavenging. Now God has done to me what I did to them." They brought him to Jerusalem and he died there. ⁸The people of Judah attacked and captured Jerusalem, subduing the city by sword and then sending it up in flames. After that they had gone down to fight the Canaanites who were living in the hill country, the Negev, and the foothills. Judah had gone on to the Canaanites who lived in Hebron (Hebron used to be called Kiriath Arba) and brought Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai to their knees.

Bible Verse Review
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Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 11:8 - Bezek

Cross-References

Genesis 1:31
God looked over everything he had made; it was so good, so very good! It was evening, it was morning— Day Six.

Genesis 8:22
For as long as Earth lasts, planting and harvest, cold and heat, Summer and winter, day and night will never stop."

Psalms 104:20
class="poetry"> O my soul, bless God ! God , my God, how great you are! beautifully, gloriously robed, Dressed up in sunshine, and all heaven stretched out for your tent. You built your palace on the ocean deeps, made a chariot out of clouds and took off on wind-wings. You commandeered winds as messengers, appointed fire and flame as ambassadors. You set earth on a firm foundation so that nothing can shake it, ever. You blanketed earth with ocean, covered the mountains with deep waters; Then you roared and the water ran away— your thunder crash put it to flight. Mountains pushed up, valleys spread out in the places you assigned them. You set boundaries between earth and sea; never again will earth be flooded. You started the springs and rivers, sent them flowing among the hills. All the wild animals now drink their fill, wild donkeys quench their thirst. Along the riverbanks the birds build nests, ravens make their voices heard. You water the mountains from your heavenly cisterns; earth is supplied with plenty of water. You make grass grow for the livestock, hay for the animals that plow the ground. Oh yes, God brings grain from the land, wine to make people happy, Their faces glowing with health, a people well-fed and hearty. God 's trees are well-watered— the Lebanon cedars he planted. Birds build their nests in those trees; look—the stork at home in the treetop. Mountain goats climb about the cliffs; badgers burrow among the rocks. The moon keeps track of the seasons, the sun is in charge of each day. When it's dark and night takes over, all the forest creatures come out. The young lions roar for their prey, clamoring to God for their supper. When the sun comes up, they vanish, lazily stretched out in their dens. Meanwhile, men and women go out to work, busy at their jobs until evening. What a wildly wonderful world, God ! You made it all, with Wisdom at your side, made earth overflow with your wonderful creations. Oh, look—the deep, wide sea, brimming with fish past counting, sardines and sharks and salmon. Ships plow those waters, and Leviathan, your pet dragon, romps in them. All the creatures look expectantly to you to give them their meals on time. You come, and they gather around; you open your hand and they eat from it. If you turned your back, they'd die in a minute— Take back your Spirit and they die, revert to original mud; Send out your Spirit and they spring to life— the whole countryside in bloom and blossom. The glory of God —let it last forever! Let God enjoy his creation! He takes one look at earth and triggers an earthquake, points a finger at the mountains, and volcanoes erupt. Oh, let me sing to God all my life long, sing hymns to my God as long as I live! Oh, let my song please him; I'm so pleased to be singing to God . But clear the ground of sinners— no more godless men and women! O my soul, bless God !

1 Corinthians 3:13
But for right now, friends, I'm completely frustrated by your unspiritual dealings with each other and with God. You're acting like infants in relation to Christ, capable of nothing much more than nursing at the breast. Well, then, I'll nurse you since you don't seem capable of anything more. As long as you grab for what makes you feel good or makes you look important, are you really much different than a babe at the breast, content only when everything's going your way? When one of you says, "I'm on Paul's side," and another says, "I'm for Apollos," aren't you being totally infantile? Who do you think Paul is, anyway? Or Apollos, for that matter? Servants, both of us—servants who waited on you as you gradually learned to entrust your lives to our mutual Master. We each carried out our servant assignment. I planted the seed, Apollos watered the plants, but God made you grow. It's not the one who plants or the one who waters who is at the center of this process but God, who makes things grow. Planting and watering are menial servant jobs at minimum wages. What makes them worth doing is the God we are serving. You happen to be God's field in which we are working. Or, to put it another way, you are God's house. Using the gift God gave me as a good architect, I designed blueprints; Apollos is putting up the walls. Let each carpenter who comes on the job take care to build on the foundation! Remember, there is only one foundation, the one already laid: Jesus Christ. Take particular care in picking out your building materials. Eventually there is going to be an inspection. If you use cheap or inferior materials, you'll be found out. The inspection will be thorough and rigorous. You won't get by with a thing. If your work passes inspection, fine; if it doesn't, your part of the building will be torn out and started over. But you won't be torn out; you'll survive—but just barely. You realize, don't you, that you are the temple of God, and God himself is present in you? No one will get by with vandalizing God's temple, you can be sure of that. God's temple is sacred—and you, remember, are the temple. Don't fool yourself. Don't think that you can be wise merely by being up-to-date with the times. Be God's fool—that's the path to true wisdom. What the world calls smart, God calls stupid. It's written in Scripture, He exposes the chicanery of the chic. The Master sees through the smoke screens of the know-it-alls. I don't want to hear any of you bragging about yourself or anyone else. Everything is already yours as a gift—Paul, Apollos, Peter, the world, life, death, the present, the future—all of it is yours, and you are privileged to be in union with Christ, who is in union with God.

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.