Judges 1:5

Study note

Setting — The narrator records Judah’s advancing troops locating Adoni-bezek at Bezek during the opening phase of the tribal conquest.

The words — יִמְצְאוּ (yim.tze.'u) means “they found,” marking the tactical discovery of the enemy commander, while יַכּוּ (ya.ku) means “they struck down,” denoting the immediate military engagement.

The thread — This pattern of locating a leader and engaging him runs through Judges 1:4 at Bezek and continues in Judges 1:6 with the pursuit and capture of the same figure.

Why it lands — The verse requires the reader to track the campaign’s operational sequence, where identifying a commander directly triggers combat and sets up the subsequent capture narrative.

Drafted by a language model from the text, its original words and its cross-references, then checked against them. It can still be wrong: open the verse in the app to report it.