Bezek

Bezek was a town in the central highlands where two pivotal early-Israelite military musterings took place. In Judges 1:4-7, the tribe of Judah — joined by Simeon — defeated the Canaanite king Adoni-bezek there at the start of the post-Joshua conquest. After the battle they cut off Adoni-bezek's thumbs and big toes, the same brutality he had inflicted on seventy other defeated kings whom he had reduced to scavenging crumbs under his table.