Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their big toes cut off, scavenged under my table. As I have done, so God has done to me.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 7. Table, at different times. Bible.—These were probably princes of some cities of Chanaan, who had been conquered by the tyrant. He obliged them to feed, like dogs, of what he threw down from his splendid table. Thus Sesostris made the kings whom he had overcome, drag his chariot. Sapor forced the Emperor Valerian to serve as a footstool, when he got on horseback. Tamberlane fed Bajazet in a cage, like a wild beast. Jovius, and so forth Calmet.—Me. So true is that Wisdom (11:17,) by what things a man sinneth, by the same also he is tormented. Menochius.
The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).