6 Into their intimate group do not come,+ O my soul. With their congregation do not become united,+ O my disposition,* because in their anger they killed men,*+ and in their arbitrariness they hamstrung bulls.

7 At this A·doʹni-beʹzek said: “There have been seventy kings with the thumbs of their hands and the great toes of their feet cut off picking up food under my table. Just the way I have done, so God has repaid me.”+ After that they brought him to Jerusalem+ and he died there.

2 Then Naʹhash the Amʹmon·ite said to them: “On this condition I shall conclude it with YOU, on the condition of boring+ out every right eye of YOURS, and I must put it as a reproach upon all Israel.”+