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約書亞記 8
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Traditional)
約書亞記 8
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Traditional)
艾城之戰
8 耶和華對約書亞說：「不要害怕，也不用沮喪。只管率領全軍去攻打艾城，我已經將艾城的王、他的人民、城池和土地都交在你手裡了。 2 你怎樣對待耶利哥和耶利哥王，也要照樣對待艾城和艾城的王。不過你們可以拿去城中的財物和牲畜。你要在城後設下伏兵。」
3 於是，約書亞率領全軍前往艾城。他挑選了三萬精兵，派他們在黑夜出發， 4 並吩咐他們說：「你們要在城後埋伏，不可離城太遠，要隨時準備行動。 5 我會率領軍隊正面攻城，當敵人像上次那樣出城應戰時，我們便逃跑。 6 他們必定乘勝追擊，我們便引他們離城，因為敵人一定會以為我們又像上次一樣臨陣逃跑。 7 那時，你們便從埋伏的地方衝出來攻佔艾城，你們的上帝耶和華一定會把艾城交在你們手裡。 8 你們攻陷艾城以後，要照耶和華的話放火焚城。這是我的命令。」 9 於是，約書亞派遣他們出去。他們去埋伏在伯特利和艾城之間，就是艾城的西面。那一夜，約書亞住在民眾當中。
10 第二天清早，約書亞召集民眾，與以色列的眾首領率領全軍前往艾城。 11 他們來到城外，在城的北面紮營，與艾城相隔一個山谷。 12 約書亞選了五千人，讓他們埋伏在艾城和伯特利之間，就是艾城的西面。 13 於是，城北的主力軍隊和城西的伏兵都部署好了。當晚，約書亞在山谷裡過夜。 14 艾城的王見以色列人兵臨城下，清早便急忙和全城的人起來出城迎戰，在亞拉巴谷附近跟以色列軍交鋒，他不知道城後有伏兵。 15 約書亞帶領以色列軍詐敗，沿著通往曠野的路逃跑。 16 艾城的人都被召去追趕以色列人，他們都被誘出城。 17 這樣，伯特利和艾城的人傾巢而出，追殺以色列人，他們的城門大開。
18 耶和華對約書亞說：「把你手中的矛指向艾城，因為我要將這城交在你手裡。」約書亞就把手中的矛指向艾城。 19 他一伸手，城後的伏兵立即行動，迅速衝進城去，一舉佔領艾城，並放火燒城。 20 艾城的人回頭發現城內煙氣沖天，卻無路可逃，因為那些詐敗的以色列人已掉頭攻擊他們。 21 約書亞和全軍見伏兵已經佔領艾城，城中濃煙滾滾，便掉頭攻擊艾城的人。 22 伏兵也出城追擊艾城的人。以色列軍前後夾攻，把敵人圍困在中間全部殲滅，無一漏網。 23 他們生擒了艾城的王，將他押到約書亞那裡。
24 以色列軍在田間和曠野殺盡了追趕他們的艾城人後，又進城殺了留在城裡的人， 25 當天被殺的艾城人男男女女共有一萬二千人。 26 一直到艾城所有的人都被殺光了，約書亞才收回手中的矛。 27 以色列人照耶和華對約書亞的吩咐，只帶走了城中的牲畜和財物。 28 約書亞燒毀全城，使城永遠成為一堆廢墟，至今仍一片荒涼。 29 約書亞又將艾城王的屍體掛在樹上示眾。黃昏時，他才吩咐人把屍體取下來丟在城門口，又在屍體上堆了一大堆石頭。石堆至今還在。
重申律法
30-31 約書亞照耶和華的僕人摩西在律法書上吩咐以色列人的話，用未經鐵器鑿過的完整石頭，在以巴路山上為以色列的上帝耶和華築了一座祭壇。以色列人就在這壇上把燔祭和平安祭獻給耶和華。 32 約書亞又在眾人面前，將摩西所寫的律法刻在石頭上。 33 所有的以色列人，無論本族人、外族人、長老、官員或審判官，都站在耶和華的約櫃兩旁，面對著抬約櫃的利未祭司。照耶和華的僕人摩西從前祝福他們時的吩咐，他們一半人站在基利心山前，一半人站在以巴路山前。 34 隨後，約書亞向民眾宣讀記在摩西律法書上的一切祝福和咒詛。 35 他在全體會眾，包括婦女、小孩以及住在他們中間的外族人面前，一字不漏地宣讀摩西的一切吩咐。
Joshua 8
New International Version
Joshua 8
New International Version
Ai Destroyed
8 Then the Lord said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid;(A) do not be discouraged.(B) Take the whole army(C) with you, and go up and attack Ai.(D) For I have delivered(E) into your hands the king of Ai, his people, his city and his land. 2 You shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king, except that you may carry off their plunder(F) and livestock for yourselves.(G) Set an ambush(H) behind the city.”
3 So Joshua and the whole army moved out to attack Ai. He chose thirty thousand of his best fighting men and sent them out at night 4 with these orders: “Listen carefully. You are to set an ambush behind the city. Don’t go very far from it. All of you be on the alert. 5 I and all those with me will advance on the city, and when the men come out against us, as they did before, we will flee from them. 6 They will pursue us until we have lured them away from the city, for they will say, ‘They are running away from us as they did before.’ So when we flee from them, 7 you are to rise up from ambush and take the city. The Lord your God will give it into your hand.(I) 8 When you have taken the city, set it on fire.(J) Do what the Lord has commanded.(K) See to it; you have my orders.”
9 Then Joshua sent them off, and they went to the place of ambush(L) and lay in wait between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai—but Joshua spent that night with the people.
10 Early the next morning(M) Joshua mustered his army, and he and the leaders of Israel(N) marched before them to Ai. 11 The entire force that was with him marched up and approached the city and arrived in front of it. They set up camp north of Ai, with the valley between them and the city. 12 Joshua had taken about five thousand men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city. 13 So the soldiers took up their positions—with the main camp to the north of the city and the ambush to the west of it. That night Joshua went into the valley.
14 When the king of Ai saw this, he and all the men of the city hurried out early in the morning to meet Israel in battle at a certain place overlooking the Arabah.(O) But he did not know(P) that an ambush had been set against him behind the city. 15 Joshua and all Israel let themselves be driven back(Q) before them, and they fled toward the wilderness.(R) 16 All the men of Ai were called to pursue them, and they pursued Joshua and were lured away(S) from the city. 17 Not a man remained in Ai or Bethel who did not go after Israel. They left the city open and went in pursuit of Israel.
18 Then the Lord said to Joshua, “Hold out toward Ai the javelin(T) that is in your hand,(U) for into your hand I will deliver the city.” So Joshua held out toward the city the javelin that was in his hand.(V) 19 As soon as he did this, the men in the ambush rose quickly(W) from their position and rushed forward. They entered the city and captured it and quickly set it on fire.(X)
20 The men of Ai looked back and saw the smoke of the city rising up into the sky,(Y) but they had no chance to escape in any direction; the Israelites who had been fleeing toward the wilderness had turned back against their pursuers. 21 For when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city and that smoke was going up from it, they turned around(Z) and attacked the men of Ai. 22 Those in the ambush also came out of the city against them, so that they were caught in the middle, with Israelites on both sides. Israel cut them down, leaving them neither survivors nor fugitives.(AA) 23 But they took the king of Ai alive(AB) and brought him to Joshua.
24 When Israel had finished killing all the men of Ai in the fields and in the wilderness where they had chased them, and when every one of them had been put to the sword, all the Israelites returned to Ai and killed those who were in it. 25 Twelve thousand men and women fell that day—all the people of Ai.(AC) 26 For Joshua did not draw back the hand that held out his javelin(AD) until he had destroyed[a](AE) all who lived in Ai.(AF) 27 But Israel did carry off for themselves the livestock and plunder of this city, as the Lord had instructed Joshua.(AG)
28 So Joshua burned(AH) Ai[b](AI) and made it a permanent heap of ruins,(AJ) a desolate place to this day.(AK) 29 He impaled the body of the king of Ai on a pole and left it there until evening. At sunset,(AL) Joshua ordered them to take the body from the pole and throw it down at the entrance of the city gate. And they raised a large pile of rocks(AM) over it, which remains to this day.
The Covenant Renewed at Mount Ebal
30 Then Joshua built on Mount Ebal(AN) an altar(AO) to the Lord, the God of Israel, 31 as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded the Israelites. He built it according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses—an altar of uncut stones, on which no iron tool(AP) had been used. On it they offered to the Lord burnt offerings and sacrificed fellowship offerings.(AQ) 32 There, in the presence of the Israelites, Joshua wrote on stones a copy of the law of Moses.(AR) 33 All the Israelites, with their elders, officials and judges, were standing on both sides of the ark of the covenant of the Lord, facing the Levitical(AS) priests who carried it. Both the foreigners living among them and the native-born(AT) were there. Half of the people stood in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal,(AU) as Moses the servant of the Lord had formerly commanded when he gave instructions to bless the people of Israel.
34 Afterward, Joshua read all the words of the law—the blessings and the curses—just as it is written in the Book of the Law.(AV) 35 There was not a word of all that Moses had commanded that Joshua did not read to the whole assembly of Israel, including the women and children, and the foreigners who lived among them.(AW)
Footnotes
- Joshua 8:26 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them.
- Joshua 8:28 Ai means the ruin.
约书亚记 8
Chinese New Version (Traditional)
约书亚记 8
Chinese New Version (Traditional)
約書亞再攻艾城
8 耶和華對約書亞說：“你不要懼怕，也不要驚慌，你只管帶領所有能作戰的人，起來上艾城去；你看，我已經把艾城的王和他的人民、城市、土地都交在你手裡了。 2 你怎樣對待耶利哥和耶利哥的王，也要照樣對待艾城和艾城的王；只是城中的戰利品和牲畜，你們可以據為己有；你要在城後面設下攻城的伏兵。”
3 於是，約書亞和所有能作戰的人都起來上艾城去；約書亞選了三萬英勇的戰士，趁夜派他們出去， 4 吩咐他們說：“你們注意，要在城後面埋伏攻城；不可離城太遠，人人都要作好準備。 5 我和所有與我一起的人，要向城推進。城裡的人像前一次出來攻擊我們的時候，我們就在他們面前逃跑； 6 他們必定出來追趕我們，我們就把他們引出城來，因為他們必定說：‘這些人像前一次一樣在我們面前逃跑了。’所以我們要在他們面前逃跑。 7 那時你們就要從埋伏的地方起來，佔領那城，因為耶和華你們的 神必把城交在你們的手裡。 8 你們佔領了城以後，就要放火燒城；要照著耶和華的話行事；你們要謹慎，我已經吩咐你們了。” 9 約書亞差派他們去了，他們就上到埋伏的地方去，住在伯特利和艾城的中間，就是在艾城的西邊。那一夜，約書亞卻在人民中間住宿。
10 約書亞清早起來，召集人民上艾城去，他和以色列的長老走在人民的前面。 11 所有與他在一起的戰士都上去，迫近艾城，在城的北面安營；在約書亞和艾城中間有一個山谷， 12 約書亞挑了大約五千人，要他們埋伏在伯特利和艾城中間，就是艾城的西面。 13 於是他們把眾民，就是在城北的全軍和在城西的伏兵都布置好了。那一夜，約書亞走進了山谷之中。 14 艾城的王看見了這情形，就和艾城的人急忙在清早起來，按著亞拉巴前面所約定之處出到亞拉巴，要與以色列人交戰；王卻不知道在城後面有伏兵要攻擊他。 15 約書亞和以色列人在他們面前裝敗，沿著通往曠野的路逃跑。 16 城裡的眾民都被召集，去追趕他們；艾城的人追趕約書亞的時候，就都被誘離城。 17 艾城和伯特利城沒有留下一個人不出來追趕以色列人；他們撇下了敞開的城門，去追趕以色列人。
攻陷艾城
18 耶和華對約書亞說：“你向著艾城伸出你手中的短槍，因為我要把城交在你手裡。”約書亞就向著艾城伸出他手裡的短槍。 19 他一伸手，伏兵就從埋伏的地方急忙起來，衝進城去，把城奪取，並連忙放火燒城。 20 艾城的人轉身觀看，看見城裡濃煙沖天，就全身乏力，不能逃跑；往曠野逃跑的以色列人就轉過來攻擊追趕他們的人。 21 約書亞和以色列人看見伏兵已經奪取了城，又看見城中濃煙上升，就轉回，擊殺艾城的人。 22 伏兵也出城攻擊艾城的人；艾城的人就被困在以色列人中間，前後受敵；於是以色列人把他們擊殺，沒有留下一個，也沒有一個逃脫。 23 他們活捉了艾城的王，把他解到約書亞那裡。
24 以色列人在田間、在曠野，殺盡了所有追趕他們的艾城的居民，艾城的人全部倒在刀下，直到完全消滅；接著，以色列眾人回到艾城，用刀擊殺了城中的人。 25 那一天被殺的人，連男帶女，共有一萬二千人，就是艾城所有的人。 26 約書亞沒有收回伸出短槍的手，直到把艾城的居民都消滅為止。 27 只有那城裡的牲畜和戰利品，以色列人照著耶和華吩咐約書亞的話，都據為己有。 28 約書亞燒了艾城，使城永遠成為廢堆，一片荒涼，直到今日。 29 他又把艾城的王懸在樹上，直到黃昏的時候；日落的時候，約書亞吩咐人把屍體從樹上拿下來，丟在城門口那裡，又在屍體上堆起了一大堆石頭，這堆石頭一直存到今日。
以巴路山上築壇宣讀律法
30 那時，約書亞在以巴路山上，為耶和華以色列的 神築了一座祭壇， 31 是照著耶和華的僕人摩西吩咐以色列人的，照著摩西律法書上所寫的，用未經過鐵器打鑿的整塊石塊築成的一座祭壇；在這祭壇之上，眾人向耶和華獻燔祭，也獻平安祭。 32 約書亞在那裡，當著以色列人面前，把摩西所寫的摩西律法抄寫在石頭上。 33 全體以色列人和他們的長老、官長，以及審判官，都站在約櫃的兩旁，在抬耶和華約櫃的利未支派的祭司前面；無論是寄居的，或是本地人，一半對著基利心山，一半對著以巴路山；正如耶和華的僕人摩西以前所吩咐的，好為以色列民祝福。 34 然後，約書亞宣讀律法上一切祝福和咒詛的話，全都照著律法書上所寫的一切。 35 摩西吩咐的一切話，約書亞在以色列全體會眾和婦女、小孩，以及在他們中間來往的寄居者面前，沒有一句不向他們宣讀出來的。
Joshua 8
King James Version
Joshua 8
King James Version
8 And the Lord said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou dismayed: take all the people of war with thee, and arise, go up to Ai: see, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land:
2 And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves: lay thee an ambush for the city behind it.
3 So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valour, and sent them away by night.
4 And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in wait against the city, even behind the city: go not very far from the city, but be ye all ready:
5 And I, and all the people that are with me, will approach unto the city: and it shall come to pass, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them,
6 (For they will come out after us) till we have drawn them from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: therefore we will flee before them.
7 Then ye shall rise up from the ambush, and seize upon the city: for the Lord your God will deliver it into your hand.
8 And it shall be, when ye have taken the city, that ye shall set the city on fire: according to the commandment of the Lord shall ye do. See, I have commanded you.
9 Joshua therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie in ambush, and abode between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people.
10 And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and numbered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.
11 And all the people, even the people of war that were with him, went up, and drew nigh, and came before the city, and pitched on the north side of Ai: now there was a valley between them and Ai.
12 And he took about five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.
13 And when they had set the people, even all the host that was on the north of the city, and their liers in wait on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.
14 And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain; but he wist not that there were liers in ambush against him behind the city.
15 And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.
16 And all the people that were in Ai were called together to pursue after them: and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.
17 And there was not a man left in Ai or Bethel, that went not out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.
18 And the Lord said unto Joshua, Stretch out the spear that is in thy hand toward Ai; for I will give it into thine hand. And Joshua stretched out the spear that he had in his hand toward the city.
19 And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand: and they entered into the city, and took it, and hasted and set the city on fire.
20 And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.
21 And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and slew the men of Ai.
22 And the other issued out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side: and they smote them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.
23 And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.
24 And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.
25 And so it was, that all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.
26 For Joshua drew not his hand back, wherewith he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
27 Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for a prey unto themselves, according unto the word of the Lord which he commanded Joshua.
28 And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation unto this day.
29 And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth unto this day.
30 Then Joshua built an altar unto the Lord God of Israel in mount Ebal,
31 As Moses the servant of the Lord commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of whole stones, over which no man hath lift up any iron: and they offered thereon burnt offerings unto the Lord, and sacrificed peace offerings.
32 And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.
33 And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord, as well the stranger, as he that was born among them; half of them over against mount Gerizim, and half of them over against mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel.
34 And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the book of the law.
35 There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua read not before all the congregation of Israel, with the women, and the little ones, and the strangers that were conversant among them.
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