Adonibezek
adonibezek
lord of bezek, a canaanitish king who, having subdued seventy of the chiefs that were around him, made an attack against the armies of judah and simeon, but was defeated and brought as a captive to jerusalem, where his thumbs and great toes were cut off. he confessed that g-d had requited him for his like cruelty to the seventy kings whom he had subdued (judg. 1:4-7; comp. 1 sam. 15:33).
historical examples
adonibezek had threescore and ten v-ssal princes at his feet; if the headman of every village may be so called.
a new system; or, an -n-lysis of antient mythology. volume ii. (of vi.) jacob bryant
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