The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs 42
Judah 7
The narrator and Dan feigned themselves Amorites and entered an enemy city as allies before opening its gates by night.
1nd the next day it was told us that the cities of the two kings with a great host were coming against us.
2 I therefore and Dan feigned ourselves to be Amorites, and went as allies into their city.
3 And in the depth of night our brethren came, and we opened to them the gates; and we destroyed all the men and their substance, and we took for a prey all that was theirs, and their three walls we cast down.
4 And we drew near to Thamna, where was all the refuge of the hostile kings.
5 Then having received hurt I was wroth, and charged upon them to the brow of the hill; and they slang at me with stones and darts; and had not Dan my brother aided me, they would have been able to slay me.
6 We came upon them therefore with wrath, and they all fled; and passing by another way, they besought my father, and he made peace with them, and we did to them no hurt, but made a truce with them, and restored to them all the captives.
7 And I built Thamna, and my father built Rhambael.
8 I was twenty years old when this war befell, and the Canaanites feared me and my brethren.
Did You Know?
The narrator and Dan feigned themselves Amorites and entered an enemy city as allies before opening its gates by night.
Brethren arrived in the depth of night, gates opened, and they destroyed all the men, took their substance, and cast down three walls.
Hurt and wrathful near Thamna, he charged to the brow of the hill amid stones and darts until brother Dan aided him.
After the foes fled another way and begged peace, the father made a truce and all captives were restored without further hurt.
Only twenty years old when this war befell, he built Thamna while his father built Rhambael and Canaanites feared them.
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