1Now after the death of Joshua, the children of Israel made request to the Lord, saying, Who is to go up first to make war for us against the Canaanites?
2And the Lord said, Judah is to go up: see, I have given the land into his hands.
3Then Judah said to Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my heritage, so that we may make war against the Canaanites; and I will then go with you into your heritage. So Simeon went with him.
4And Judah went up; and the Lord gave the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hands; and they overcame ten thousand of them in Bezek.
5And they came across Adoni-zedek, and made war on him; and they overcame the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
6But Adoni-zedek went in flight; and they went after him and overtook him, and had his thumbs and his great toes cut off.
7And Adoni-zedek said, Seventy kings, whose thumbs and great toes had been cut off, got broken meat under my table: as I have done, so has God done to me in full. And they took him to Jerusalem, and he came to his end there.
