Judges 1:7
And Adoni-bezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having 1their thumbs and their great toes cut off, 2gathered their *meat under my table: ias I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.
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.
1:
Heb. the thumbs of their hands and of their feet.
2:
Or, gleaned.
*:
meat-food of any kind.
i:
1 Samuel 15:33 And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.
Proverbs 1:31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Proverbs 13:21 Evil pursueth sinners: but to the righteous good shall be repayed.
Matthew 7:2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
Revelation 13:10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
Revelation 16:6 For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
Romans 2:15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)
Psalms 37:35 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
Psalms 37:37 Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.
Psalms 140:10 Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.
Leviticus 24:19 And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him;
James 2:13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.
which is not strange in those times and places; for these might be either, first, kings successively, and so there might be divers of those kings in one place, and so in others; or, secondly, contemporary kings. For it is well known that anciently each ruler of a city, or great town, was called a king, and had kingly power in that place; and many such kings we meet with in Canaan; and it is probable that some years before kings were more numerous there, till the greater devoured many of the less.
that so their hands might be unable to manage weapons of war.
an act of barbarous inhumanity thus to insult over the miserable, joined with abominable luxury.
he acknowledgeth the providence and vindictive justice of God, which also Pharaoh did, and others too, without any true sense of piety.
they carried him in triumph, as a monument of God’s righteous vengeance.
it being the metropolis of the nation.