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1 After Joshua died, the Israelites asked the LORD, |Who should lead the invasion against the Canaanites and launch the attack?| 2 The LORD said, |The men of Judah should take the lead. Be sure of this! I am handing the land over to them.| 3 The men of Judah said to their relatives, the men of Simeon, |Invade our allotted land with us and help us attack the Canaanites. Then we will go with you into your allotted land.| So the men of Simeon went with them. 4 The men of Judah attacked, and the LORD handed the Canaanites and Perizzites over to them. They killed ten thousand men at Bezek. 5 They met Adoni-Bezek at Bezek and fought him. They defeated the Canaanites and Perizzites. 6 When Adoni-Bezek ran away, they chased him and captured him. Then they cut off his thumbs and big toes. 7 Adoni-Bezek said, |Seventy kings, with thumbs and big toes cut off, used to lick up food scraps under my table. God has repaid me for what I did to them.| They brought him to Jerusalem, where he died. Judges 1:1-7, New English Translation. Copyright © 1996-2017 by Biblical Studies Press.
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