# The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, chapter 42: Judah 7

Source: https://enocharchive.com/books/the-testaments-of-the-twelve-patriarchs/42 (Enoch Archive, public-domain translation).

**42:1** And the next day it was told us that the cities of the two kings with a great host were coming against us.

**42:2** I therefore and Dan feigned ourselves to be Amorites, and went as allies into their city.

**42:3** 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.

**42:4** And we drew near to Thamna, where was all the refuge of the hostile kings.

**42:5** 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.

**42:6** 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.

**42:7** And I built Thamna, and my father built Rhambael.

**42:8** I was twenty years old when this war befell, and the Canaanites feared me and my brethren.

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