7And Adonibezek 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.
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Matthew Henry
(vv. 1-8)Here, I. The children of Israel consult the oracle of God for direction which of all the tribes should first attempt to clear their country of the Canaanites, and to animate and encourage the rest. It was after the death of Joshua . While he lived he directed them, and all the tribes were obedient to him, but when he died he left no successor in the same authority that he had; but the people must ...
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