Judges 1:5

5 They caught up with My-Master-Bezek there and fought him. They smashed the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

Judges 1:5 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 1:5

And they found Adonibezek in Bezek
Who was king of, the place, and whose name signifies lord of Bezek; not that they took him there, for he is afterwards said to make his escape from thence, but here he was when they came against that city, and into which they rushed upon him, and fell upon him as follows:

and they fought against him;
entering the city with their forces:

and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites:
that were in it, or about it, even to the number of ten thousand, as before related, ( Judges 1:4 ) .

Judges 1:5 In-Context

3 The men of Judah said to those of their brother Simeon, "Go up with us to our territory and we'll fight the Canaanites. Then we'll go with you to your territory." And Simeon went with them.

4 So Judah went up. God gave them the Canaanites and the Perizzites. They defeated them at Bezek - ten military units!

5 They caught up with My-Master-Bezek there and fought him. They smashed the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

6 My-Master-Bezek ran, but they gave chase and caught him. They cut off his thumbs and big toes.

7 My-Master-Bezek said, "Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off used to crawl under my table, scavenging. Now God has done to me what I did to them." They brought him to Jerusalem and he died there.