ADONI-BEZEK (perhaps a corrupted form of Adoni-zedek, Jos_10:1-27).—A king of Bezek (a different place from that mentioned in 1Sa_11:8), who was defeated by Simeon and Judah. The mutilation inflicted upon him—the cutting off of the thumbs and great toes—was in order to render him harmless, while retaining him as a trophy; but he died on reaching Jerusalem. Adoni-bezek boasted of having mutilated seventy kings in a similar manner. The passage (Jdg_1:5-7) which speaks of Adoni-bezek does not appear to be intact; the original form probably gave more details.