Matthew Poole and continuators on Judges 1:7

7 And Adoni-bezek said, Threescore and ten kings , having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table : as I have done▪ so God hath requited me : and they brought him to Jerusalem q, and there he died.

Which is not strange in those times and places: for these might be either, First, Kings successively, and so there might be divers of those Kings in one place, and so in others: Or, Secondly, Contemporary Kings▪ For it is well known, that anciently each Ruler of a City, or great Town, was called a King, and had Kingly Power in that place; and many such Kings we meet with in Canaan: and it is probable, that some years before, Kings were more numerous there, till the greater devoured many of the less.

That so their hands might be unable to manage weapons of War.

An act of Barbarous Inhumanity thus to insult over the miserable, joyned with abominable Luxury.

He acknowledgeth the Providence and vindictive Justice of God, which also Pharoah did, and others too, without any true sense of Piety.

They carried him in Triumph as a monument of Gods righteous Vengeance.

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