Testament of Judah

Chapter 7

  1. 1 And the next day it was told us that the king of the city of Gaash with a mighty host was coming
  2. 2 against us. I, therefore, and Dan feigned ourselves to be Amorites, and as allies went into their
  3. 3 city. 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
  4. 4 walls we cast down. And we drew near to Thamna, where was all the substance of the hostile kings. Then being insulted by them, I was therefore wroth, and rushed against them to the summit; and
  5. 6 they kept slinging against me stones and darts. And had not Dan my brother aided me, they would
  6. 7 have slain me. We came upon them, therefore, with wrath, and they all fled; and passing by
  7. 8 another way, they besought my father, and he made peace with them. And we did to them no hurt,
  8. 9 and they became tributary to us, and we restored to them their spoil. And I built Thamna, and my
  9. 10 father built Pabael. I was twenty years old when this war befell. And the Canaanites feared me and my brethren.