アドオンイ・ベゼク

Adoni-bezek was a Canaanite king—possibly of Bezek in the hill country—who was defeated by the combined forces of Judah and Simeon in the early stages of the Israelite conquest (Judges 1:4–7). His captors cut off his thumbs and big toes, a practice of humiliation designed to disable a warrior from fighting. Adoni-bezek acknowledged that this punishment was divine retribution for having done the same to seventy kings whom he had humiliated beneath his table. His self-aware confession of divine justice stands as one of the rare instances in the conquest narrative where a defeated enemy acknowledges Israel's God.