1. And it came to pass after the death of Joshua that the children of Israel asked Jehovah, saying, Which of us shall go up against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?
2. And Jehovah said, Judah shall go up: behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.
3. And Judah said to Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my lot, and let us fight against the Canaanites, and I likewise will go with thee into thy lot; and Simeon went with him.
4. And Judah went up; and Jehovah delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand, and they smote them in Bezek, ten thousand men.
5. And they found Adoni-Bezek in Bezek, and fought against him, and they smote the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
6. And Adoni-Bezek fled, and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
7. And Adoni-Bezek said, Seventy kings, with their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gleaned under my table: as I have done, so God has requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.
8. And the children of Judah fought against Jerusalem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.