The Lord delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites
After Joshua died, the Israelites wondered who was going to do their killing for them. So they asked God.
After the death of Joshua ... the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them? Judges 1:1
Well, at least they asked the right guy.
God told them not to worry; he had selected the tribe of Judah to kill the Canaanites and steal their land.
The LORD said, Judah shall go up: behold, I have delivered the land into his hand. 1:2
The first killing was easy, since God delivered them into their hand, killing 10,000 Canaanites and Perizzites.
udah went up; and the LORD delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand: and they slew of them in Bezek ten thousand men. 1:4
After the Bezek massacre, they captured king Adonibezek and cut off his thumbs and big toes.
But Adonibezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes. 1:6
Which I guess was to pay him back for doing the same to seventy other kings. (Adonibezek fed his table scraps to seventy thumbless and big toe-less kings who lived under his dinner table.)
Adonibezek 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. 1:7a
Then they brought Adonibezek to Jerusalem, where he died.
And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died. 1:7b
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- The Lord delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
