Judges 1:5
And they found Adonibezec in Bezec, and fought against him, and they defeated the Chanaanite, and the Pherezite.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Inveneruntque Adonibezec in Bezec, et pugnaverunt contra eum, ac percusserunt Chananæum et Pherezæum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ κατέλαβον τὸν Ἀδωνιβέζεκ ἐν τῇ Βέζεκ, καὶ παρετάξαντο πρὸς αὐτόν· καὶ ἔκοψαν τὸν Χαναναῖον καὶ Φερεζαῖον.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַֽ֠יִּמְצְאוּ אֶת אֲדֹנִ֥י בֶ֨זֶק֙ בְּבֶ֔זֶק וַיִּֽלָּחֲמ֖וּ בּ֑וֹ וַיַּכּ֕וּ אֶת הַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֖י וְאֶת הַפְּרִזִּֽי
Haydock's commentary
Adonibezec, "Lord of Bezec." The cruelty of this tyrant, and the oppression which he probably made some of the Israelites suffer, roused their attention, and they treated him as he had treated others. He had perhaps recourse to such a cruel expedient, to disable his enemies from ever entering the lists against him afterwards, as the Athenians, who cut off the fingers of the inhabitants of Egina, that these islanders might not dispute with them the empire of the sea. (Cicero, Offic. 3.) Some have thus maimed themselves that they might be exempted from going to war, a practice not unusual among the Romans; and the Italian word poltron, signifies one whose fingers are cut off, as it was supposed, out of cowardice. David ordered the hands and the feet of the murderers of Isboseth to be cut off, and this sort of punishment is common in the eastern countries. Eight hundred Greeks who had been treated in this manner by the Persians, presented themselves to Alexander, at Persepolis, to implore his protection. (Curt. &c.)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.