And they found Adonibezek in Bezek: and they fought against him, and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
Ver. 5. And they found Adonibezek.] Who had pompously called himself Lord of Bezek, after the name of his city, seeking thereby to immortalise himself upon his possession; see Gen 4:17 Psa 49:11 but it proved otherwise, for he was found and ferreted out of his den, whither he had carried together no small spoil. Jdg 1:7
I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
Ver. 5. Afterward destroyed] Their preservation was but a reservation, as was Sennacherib's, Pharaoh's, and theirs whom God threatened to destroy, after that he had done them good, Joshua 24:20 .