As Al’asad came around the big tree on the trail everything just went out from underneath him. He had no time to react. The full weight of his body hit the bottom of a cleverly dug and well placed pit.
  He injured a rear leg on a sharp stick placed in the side of the pit and let out a short roar. There were a few sharp sticks pointing up, small ones. Nothing that would kill him but would cause small wounds if the lion were to thrash around. Even though he was poisoned, injured and not quite himself he was still wise, so he waited quietly in the bottom of the pit.
  Benaiah was close enough now to hear the roar and after trailing the poachers for so long he believed he knew who they were.
  They were Moabite warriors. Lion like. Fierce and renowned. Their two best. They had stories told of them about killing lions with their bare hands. These could be them. As Benaiah came in view of the pit he also saw the two poachers moving in.
  It was them! The Two Mightiest warriors of Moab.
As Benaiah made himself known the poachers did not run away. They stood tall and tried to scare Benaiah with shouts and threats as they wielded their spears.
  Benaiah announced loudly, “This is Baladi Al’asad! He is not your lion to kill!” as he quickly closed the ground between him, them and the pit.
He looked across the pit at them and then down at the lion. As their eye’s met the lion lifted his nose, testing the air. As he caught Benaiah’s scent he let out a low, throaty, growl of acknowledgment toward his well known enemy.
Benaiah could not help but notice the flash of life in the lions eye’s. He felt the same flash come over him.
  He fell upon the Two of Moab as furiously as the lion would have if they would have had the honor to face him. It was a lightning fast assault. Vicious and lethal.
When he was finished with them he shed his bow and dropped his spear to the ground.
Taking out his hunting knife…
he made his way down into the pit, with the lion.
It is written,
2 Samuel 23 : 20-23
20 Benaiah son of Jehoiada, a valiant fighter from Kabzeel, performed great exploits. He struck down Moab’s two mightiest warriors. He also went down into a pit on a snowy day and killed a lion. 21 And he struck down a huge Egyptian. Although the Egyptian had a spear in his hand, Benaiah went against him with a club. He snatched the spear from the Egyptian’s hand and killed him with his own spear. 22 Such were the exploits of Benaiah son of Jehoiada; he too was as famous as the three mighty warriors. 23 He was held in greater honor than any of the Thirty, but he was not included among the Three. And David put him in charge of his bodyguard.
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