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Giosué 8
La Nuova Diodati
Giosué 8
La Nuova Diodati
8 Poi l'Eterno disse a Giosuè: «Non aver paura e non sgomentarti. Prendi con te tutti gli uomini di guerra, levati e sali contro Ai. Vedi, io ti do nelle mani il re di Ai, il suo popolo, la sua città e il suo paese.
2 E tu farai ad Ai e al suo re come hai fatto a Gerico e al suo re; prenderete per voi unicamente il suo bottino e il suo bestiame. Tendi un'imboscata contro la città dietro ad essa».
3 Così Giosuè e tutti gli uomini di guerra si levarono per salire contro Ai. Egli scelse trentamila uomini, guerrieri valorosi, e li fece partire di notte,
4 e comandò loro, dicendo: «Ecco, voi starete in agguato contro la città, proprio dietro la città; non allontanatevi troppo dalla città, ma state tutti pronti.
5 Poi io e tutta la gente che è con me ci avvicineremo alla città; e quando essi usciranno contro di noi come la prima volta, noi ci daremo alla fuga davanti a loro.
6 Essi usciranno ad inseguirci finché noi li avremo tirati lontani dalla città, perché diranno: "Fuggono davanti a noi come la prima volta". E, mentre noi fuggiremo davanti a loro,
7 voi uscirete dall'agguato e prenderete la città, perché l'Eterno, il vostro DIO, la darà nelle vostre mani.
8 Come avrete preso la città, darete alle fiamme la città; farete come l'Eterno ha comandato. Fate attenzione, questo è l'ordine che io vi do».
9 Così Giosué li mandò, ed essi andarono al luogo dell'agguato e si fermarono fra Bethel e Ai, dal lato ovest di Ai; ma Giosuè rimase quella notte in mezzo al popolo.
10 Giosuè si alzò quindi al mattino presto, passò in rivista il popolo e salì con gli anziani d'Israele alla testa del popolo contro Ai.
11 Tutti gli uomini di guerra che erano con lui salirono e si avvicinarono; così giunsero di fronte alla città e si accamparono a nord di Ai. Tra loro ed Ai c'era una valle.
12 Allora egli prese circa cinquemila uomini e li mise in agguato fra Bethel ed Ai, a ovest della città.
13 Dopo che il popolo ebbe preso posizione, l'accampamento centrale era a nord della città e gli uomini in agguato a ovest della città, Giosuè quella notte si spinse avanti in mezzo alla valle.
14 Quando il re di Ai si accorse di questo, gli uomini della città si alzarono in fretta al mattino presto e uscirono a combattere contro Israele, il re e tutto il suo popolo, al punto convenuto di fronte all'Arabah; ma il re non sapeva che c'era un agguato contro di lui dietro la città.
15 Allora Giosuè e tutto Israele, fingendo di essere battuti di fronte a loro, fuggirono in direzione del deserto.
16 Tutto il popolo che era nella città fu chiamato a raccolta per inseguirli; così inseguirono Giosuè e furono attirati lontano dalla città.
17 Non ci fu uomo in Ai e in Bethel, che non uscisse dietro a Israele. Lasciarono così la città aperta e inseguirono Israele.
18 Allora l'Eterno disse a Giosuè: «Stendi la lancia che hai in mano verso Ai, perché io te la darò nelle mani». E Giosuè stese la lancia che aveva in mano verso la città.
19 Come egli ebbe steso la mano, gli uomini in agguato si levarono in fretta dal loro posto, entrarono nella città, la presero, e si affrettarono a darla alle fiamme.
20 Quando gli uomini di Ai si voltarono indietro, ecco, essi videro il fumo della città che saliva al cielo; e non vi fu per loro alcuna possibilità di fuggire né da una parte né dall'altra, perché il popolo che fuggiva in direzione del deserto si voltò contro quei che lo inseguivano.
21 Infatti, quando Giosuè e tutto Israele videro che gli uomini in agguato avevano preso la città e che il fumo della città si alzava in alto, tornarono indietro e batterono gli uomini di Ai.
22 Anche gli altri uscirono dalla città contro di loro; così quelli di Ai si trovarono intrappolati in mezzo alle forze d'Israele, avendo gli uni da un lato e gli atri dall'altro; e li batterono finché non rimase piú alcun superstite o fuggiasco.
23 Ma il re di Ai lo presero vivo e lo condussero da Giosuè.
24 Quando Israele ebbe finito di uccidere tutti gli abitanti di Ai nella campagna e nel deserto dove essi lo avevano inseguito, e furono tutti passati a fil di spada finché furono tutti sterminati, tutto Israele tornò verso Ai e la mise a fil di spada.
25 Tutti quei che caddero in quel giorno, uomini e donne, furono dodicimila, tutta la gente di Ai.
26 Giosuè non ritirò la mano che brandiva la lancia, finché non ebbe sterminato tutti gli abitanti di Ai.
27 Israele prese per se soltanto il bestiame e il bottino di quella città, secondo l'ordine che l'Eterno aveva dato a Giosuè.
28 Così Giosuè arse Ai e la ridusse a un cumulo di rovine per sempre, una desolazione fino a questo giorno.
29 Fece quindi appendere il re di Ai ad un albero e ve lo lasciò fino alla sera; al tramonto del sole, Giosuè ordinò che il suo cadavere fosse calato dall'albero, fosse gettato all'ingresso della porta della città e vi ammassarono sopra un grande mucchio di pietre, che rimane fino ad oggi.
30 Allora Giosuè edificò un altare all'Eterno, il DIO d'Israele, sul monte Ebal,
31 come Mosè, servo dell'Eterno, aveva comandato ai figli d'Israele, come sta scritto nel libro della legge di Mosè, un altare di pietre intatte sulle quali nessuno aveva passato alcun strumento di ferro; poi su di esso offrirono olocausti all'Eterno e fecero sacrifici di ringraziamento.
32 Là Giosuè scrisse su pietre una copia della legge, che Mosè aveva scritto in presenza dei figli d'Israele.
33 Tutto Israele, tanto gli stranieri che gl'Israeliti di nascita, i suoi anziani, i suoi ufficiali e i suoi giudici stavano in piedi ai due lati dell'arca, di fronte ai sacerdoti levitici che portavano l'arca del patto dell'Eterno, una metà di fronte al monte Gherizim, l'altra metà di fronte al monte Ebal, come Mosè, servo dell'Eterno, aveva prima comandato, per benedire il popolo d'Israele.
34 Dopo questo, Giosuè lesse tutte le parole della legge, le benedizioni e le maledizioni, secondo tutto ciò che è scritto nel libro della legge.
35 Non vi fu parola di tutto ciò che Mosè aveva comandato, che Giosuè non leggesse davanti a tutta l'assemblea d'Israele, comprese le donne, i bambini e gli stranieri che risiedevano in mezzo a loro.
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.
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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