11 I slew a lion and plucked a kid out of its mouth. (T12) 12 I took a bear by its paw and hurled it down the cliff, and it was crushed. (T12) 13 I outran the wild boar, and seizing it as I ran, I tore it in sunder. (T12) 14 A leopard in Hebron leaped upon my dog, and I caught it by the tail, and hurled it on the rocks, and it was broken in twain (T12) 15 I found a wild ox feeding in the fields, and seizing it by the horns, and whirling it round and stunning it, I cast it from me and slew it. (T12) 16 And when the two kings of the Canaanites came sheathed, in armour against our flocks, and much people with them, single handed I rushed upon the king of Hazor, and smote him on the greives and dragged him down, and so I slew him. (T12) 17 And the other, the king of Tappuah, as he sat upon his horse, I slew, and so I scattered all his people. (T12) 18 Achor, the king, a man of giant stature, I found, hurling javelins before and behind as he sat on horseback, and I took up a stone of sixty pounds weight, and hurled it and smote his horse, and killed it. (T12) 19 And I fought with this other for two hours; and I clave his shield in twain, and I chopped off his feet, and killed him. (T12) 20 And as I was stripping off his breastplate, behold nine men his companions began to fight with me, (T12) 21 And I wound my garment on my hand; and I slung stones at them, and killed four of them, and the rest fled. (T12) 22 And Jacob my father slew Beelesath, king of all the kings, a giant in strength, twelve cubits high. (T12)
Testament of Judah 1:11–22
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