Bible Location
Meaning: lightning; in the chains · 2 cross references · Modern-day map available
Bezek was the place associated with Adoni-bezek's defeat early in Judges. It is important because it appears in one of the first major conflicts of the post-Joshua period. First appears in Judg 1:4.1
AI summary: Bezek matters because it stands near the start of Judges' unsettled history. There the Judahite forces defeat Adoni-bezek, and the episode vividly illustrates both early success and the harsh justice of the period. The cross references present Bezek as a battlefield place in the rough opening of Judges.1
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.