Hitchcock's Bible Names (1869)
the lightning of the Lord; the Lord of lightning
Schaff's Bible Dictionary
ADON'I-BE'ZEK. Jud 1:5. Lord or king of Bezek, a city of the Canaanites. See Bezek. His name was a title, not a proper name. He fled from the armies of Judah, but was caught and his thumbs and great toes cut off, so that he could neither fight nor flee. He was then carried to Jerusalem, where he died. He seems to have regarded the maiming he suffered as a just requital of his own cruelty, he having mutilated seventy kings or chieftains in the same inhuman manner.
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