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city_n	great_a	king_n	time_n	14,389	5	3.4431	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64433	The testament of the twelve patriarchs, the sons of Jacob translated out of Greek into Latin by Robert Grosthead ... and out of his copy into French and Dutch by others, and now Englished ...; Testaments of the twelve patriarchs. English. 1658.	Grosseteste, Robert, 1175?-1253.	1658 (1658)	Wing T794_VARIANT; ESTC R33914	69,032	168

named Thaphes sitting on his Horse and so scatterd all their people I overtook King Achor a Giant on Horse-back shooting forward and backward and throwing a stone of threescore pound weight upon his Horse I overthrew him and killed him and fighting two houres with Achor at length I c●ave his shield and maimed his feet and finally slew him As I was pulling off his brestplate behold eight of his friends assailed me whereupon I filled my hands with stones and flinging them at them with a sting slew four of them and put the other foure to flight Also our Father Jacob slue the Giant Beelisa King of all the Kings who was mighty and huge of the stature of twelve cubits By reason whereof feare fell upon them and they left their fighting against us For this cause my father was carefull of me when I was in battaile with my brethren Hee saw in a vision concerning mee that the Angell of strength followed me every where to the intent I should not be evercome The second handsell was a greater battell to us then that which wee had at Sichem in so much that in fighting valiantly with my Brethren I chased a thousand men and slue of them two hundreth persons foure of their Kings and following after them skaled the walls of their citie there slew two Kings more so we delivered Hebron led them all away as prisoners Then the next day we went to a strong walled unapprochable citie called Areca which threatned to kill us Therefore I Gad went to the east side of the city and Ruben and Levi unto the West South side They that stood upon the wals supposing there had been no mo but Gad I did set fire upon us while in the mean time my brother that lay in stale brake out upon the other two sides and skaling the wals with ladders entred the citie ere our enemies wist it so we won it by the Sword and set fire upon the Lower and burnt it up with such as were fled into it As we returned the men of Thaffie lay in waite for our prey and took it with our children But we followed them to Thaffie slew them and buried their City spoiling all that was in it And while I was at the waters of Gureba we fell upon the men of Jobel that came against us in battaile and slue and spoiled both them and also their complices that came to their aide from Selon so as we gave them no respite to returne againe upon us The fift day after there came men from Machir to fetch away our prisoners whom we met in battell notwithstanding that they were a mighty boast and slew them before they could get up to the place that they came from And when we came to their City their women tumbled down stones upon us from the top of the hill whereon their city stood but I Simeon coasting to the back side of the towne got unto the higher places and destroyed the whole city The next day it was told us that the cities of two Kings came against us with a huge Hoast I therefore and Dan faining our selves to be Amorrheans and Fellowes with them went into their City and taking the entrances in the dead time of the night did set the gates wide open to our brethren that came after us by meanes whereof we destroyed them all that they had when we had sacked the city one did cast downe the three wals thereof Then went we to Thamua which was the refuge of all the Kings for their wars Where being angry for a hurt that I tooke I charged upon those that stood above me but they threw downe stones out of slinges upon me and shot arrowes at me had killed me but that my brother Dan reskued me Therefore we came running upon them in a rage and put them all to flight and they passing by another way went and sued humbly unto my Father who made a Covenant with them so as we did them not any more harme but received them into league with us delivered them all their prisoners Then builded I Chamma my father builded Rambahel Twenty years old was I when this warre was made and the Chanaanites were afraid of me and my Brethren I had much cattell my chiefe heardsman was Yran of Odellam in whose company I saw Bersa King of Odellam who made us a feast with much intreatance gave me his daughter Bethsue to wife which brought me forth Er Anan and Sylon of which three God slue two Childlesse For Sylon lived of whom some of you be the Children My Father and we made eighteene yeares peace with his brother Esau and his children When the eighteen yeares were past after our coming out of Mesopotamia in the fortieth yeare of my life Esau our Fathers brother came upon us with a great strong Hoast was slaine by the Bowe of Jacob conveyed away dead unto Mount Seir. Wee also followed upon the Children of Esau but his city was very strong with high Walles and gates of yron and brasse so as we could not enter into it howbeit wee did shut them up within it and besieged it Now when they shewed not themselves abroad in twenty daies together I put my Helmet upon my head and in fight of them all set up a ladder and skaling the wals slue four of their noble men with a stone of the weight of three talents The next day Ruben and Gad went and slew threescore others Then they offered peace and wee by our Fathers advise received them into tribute And they gave us two hundred quarters of corne five hundreth bates of oile and a thousand five hundred measures of Wine untill we went downe into Egypt After this my Sonne Er married Thamar of Mesopotamia the Daughter of Aram. Now Er was a very wicked Impe and doubted much of Thamar because shee was not of the land of Chanaan Therefore the Angel of the Lord slew him the third night after his mariage when he had not yet accompanied with her by reason of his mothers subtletie and so died in his naughtinesse for she was loth that he should have had any children by her When Anan was marriageable I gave Thamar unto him and hee likewise of a spite accompanied not with her notwithstanding that he lived a full yeer with her and when I threatned him then he companied with her but yet by his mothers commandement he let his seed fall upon the ground and so also he died in his wickednes I minded to have given her unto Sylon also but my wife Bethsue would not suffer mee For she spited Thamar because she was not of the daughters of Chanaan as her selfe was Now I knew the of-spring of Chanaan was mischievous but yet did youthfull fancie blind my heart And as I beheld her powring out wine I was deceived with drunkennesse and fell in love