1:7a Then Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have gathered the scraps under my table.

Then Adoni-Bezek said, “There used to be seventy kings who ate scraps of food under my table. I cut off their thumbs and their big toes.
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King Adoni-Bezek said, “There have been seventy (70) kings whom I have captured. I cut off their thumbs and big toes and made them eat the food that fell from my table.

1:7b As I have done to them, so God has repaid me.”

Now God did to me what I did to them.”
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Now God is making me suffer like I made them suffer.”

1:7c And they brought him to Jerusalem, where he died.

They took him to Jerusalem and he died there.
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They brought King Adoni-Bezek to Jerusalem, where he died.

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