They rout the inhabitants, and capture and kill Adoni-Bezek {"the Lord of Bezek"}, who recognizes the rightness of this judgment on him {"God has paid me back for what I did to them," v 7}. It is notable that, while many 21st-century readers have many qualms about Israel's conduct in Canaan, this defeated Canaanite did not. God's judgment throughout history is to give people over to the consequences of the life they have chosen {eg: Psalm 64:3-4, 7-8; Romans 1:21-32}- Adoni-Bezek, it appears, accepts this.
( Timothy J. Keller )
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