Judah and Simeon Receive the Commission

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After the death of Y'hoshua, the people of Isra'el asked ADONAI, "Who will go up for us first to fight against the Kena'ani?"

2

ADONAI said: "Y'hudah will go up; here, I have handed the land over to him."

3

Y'hudah said to his brother Shim'on, "Come up with me into my assigned territory, so that we can fight against the Kena'ani; and I likewise will go with you into your territory." So Shim'on went with him.

4

Y'hudah went up; and ADONAI gave the Kena'ani and the P'rizi into their hands; of those in Bezek they killed ten thousand men.

5

They found Adoni-Bezek in Bezek; and they fought against him. They killed the Kena'ani and the P'rizi,

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but Adoni-Bezek fled. They pursued him, caught him, and cut off his thumbs and big toes.

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Adoni-Bezek said: "Seventy kings, with their thumbs and their big toes cut off, gathered food under my table; God has paid me back in accordance with what I did." They brought him to Yerushalayim, and he died there.

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