17 “‘And in case a man strikes any soul of mankind fatally,* he should be put to death without fail.+

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.

7 In turn Samson said to them: “If YOU do like this, there is nothing but for me to avenge myself upon YOU,+ and afterward I shall quit.”