Place
Bezek
site of battles
Site of two notable biblical moments: Judah's defeat of Adoni-bezek in the conquest, and Saul's muster of Israel's army to relieve Jabesh Gilead.
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Bezek appears in two distinct biblical episodes that both involve muster or battle. In Judges 1:4–5, the men of defeat the and the at Bezek, capturing the Canaanite king Adoni-bezek, who had cut off the thumbs and big toes of seventy kings. He acknowledged this as fitting retribution, since he had done the same to others. Centuries later, 1 11:8 records that Saul numbered the and Judahite forces at Bezek before marching to relieve the besieged city of — suggesting it served as a convenient assembly point for armies.
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