Adoni-bezek
The name Adoni-bezek means “the lightning of the Lord; the Lord of lightning.” Adoni-bezek is mentioned in 3 verses of the Bible, first in Judges 1:5.
Key verses about Adoni-bezek
- Judges 1:5
And they found Adoni–bezek in Bezek: and they fought against him, and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
- Judges 1:6
But Adoni–bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
- Judges 1:7
And Adoni–bezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.