Adoni-bezek

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Adonibezek
     lord of Bezek, a Canaanitish king who, having subdued seventy of
     the chiefs that were around him, made an attack against the
     armies of Judah and Simeon, but was defeated and brought as a
     captive to Jerusalem, where his thumbs and great toes were cut
     off. He confessed that God had requited him for his like cruelty


     to the seventy kings whom he had subdued (Judg. 1:4-7; comp. 1
     Sam. 15:33).
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Adoni-bezek, the lightning of the Lord; the Lord of lightning