Judges 1:5

Adoni-bezek. Lord of Bezek. Bezek was seventeen miles south of Shechem. Compare 1 Samuel 11:8. Compare Joshua 15:13-19.

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⁵ And they found Adonibezek in Bezek: and they fought against him, and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

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