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Judges 1:4-10 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

4. Judah went up, and the Lord gave the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hands, and they defeated ten thousand men at Bezek.

5. They found Adoni-bezek in Bezek and fought against him, and they defeated the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

6. But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued him and caught him and cut off his thumbs and big toes.

7. Adoni-bezek said, "Seventy kings with their thumbs and their big toes cut off used to gather up scraps under my table; as I have done, so God has repaid me." So they brought him to Jerusalem and he died there.

8. Then the sons of Judah fought against Jerusalem and captured it and struck it with the edge of the sword and set the city on fire.

9. Afterward the sons of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites living in the hill country and in the Negev and in the lowland.

10. So Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron (now the name of Hebron formerly was Kiriath-arba); and they struck Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai.

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