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Josue 8
Ang Salita ng Dios (Tagalog Contemporary Bible)
Josue 8
Ang Salita ng Dios (Tagalog Contemporary Bible)
Ang Pagsakop sa Ai
8 Sinabi ng Panginoon kay Josue, “Huwag kang matakot o kayaʼy manghina. Isama mo ang lahat ng iyong sundalo at lusubin ulit ninyo ang Ai, dahil ibinigay ko na sa inyo ang hari ng Ai, ang kanyang mga mamamayan, ang kanyang bayan at ang kanyang lupain. 2 Kung ano ang ginawa ninyo sa Jerico at sa hari nito, ganoon din ang gawin ninyo sa Ai. Pero sa pagkakataong ito, maaari na ninyong kunin ang kanilang mga ari-arian at mga hayop para sa inyong sarili. Maghanda kayo at tambangan ninyo sila sa likod ng lungsod.”
3 Kaya umalis sila Josue at ang lahat ng sundalo niya para lusubin ang Ai. Pumili si Josue ng 30,000 sundalo na mahuhusay makipaglaban at pinaalis nang gabi. 4 Ito ang bilin ni Josue sa kanila, “Magtago kayo sa likod ng lungsod, pero huwag masyadong malayo. Humanda kayo sa paglusob kahit anong oras. 5 Ako at ang mga kasama ko ay lulusob sa harapan. Kung lalabas na sila sa pakikipaglaban sa amin, tatakas kami, gaya ng nangyari noon. 6 Iisipin nilang natatakot kami kagaya noon, kaya hahabulin nila kami hanggang sa makalayo sila sa lungsod. 7 Pagkatapos, lumabas kayo sa pinagtataguan nʼyo at sakupin ang lungsod. Ibibigay ito sa inyo ng Panginoon na inyong Dios. 8 Kapag nasakop nʼyo na ang lungsod, sunugin nʼyo ito ayon sa sinabi ng Panginoon. Tiyakin nʼyong gagawin ito ayon sa iniutos.” 9 Pinaalis sila ni Josue, at nagtago sila sa bandang kanluran ng Ai, sa kalagitnaan ng Ai at Betel. At sina Josue naman ay nagpaiwan sa kampo nang gabing iyon.
10 Kinaumagahan, maagang tinipon ni Josue ang mga tauhan niya. Pinangunahan niya at ng mga pinuno ng Israel ang mga tao sa pagpunta nila sa Ai. 11 Nakarating sila sa lugar na nakaharap sa lungsod, sa bandang hilaga nito, at doon sila nagtayo ng mga tolda. May lambak na nakapagitan sa kanila at sa Ai. 12 Nagpadala si Josue ng 5,000 sundalo para tambangan ang lungsod sa bandang kanluran nito, sa kalagitnaan ng Ai at Betel. 13 Kaya pumwesto na ang mga sundalo. Ang ibang mga sundalo ay nasa bandang hilaga ng lungsod, at ang iba naman ay naroon sa bandang kanluran nito.
Nang gabing iyon pumunta sina Josue sa lambak. 14 Nang makita ng hari ng Ai sina Josue, maaga paʼy agad-agad na siyang lumabas sa lungsod kasama ang mga tauhan niya, at pumunta sa lugar na nakaharap sa Lambak ng Jordan[a] para makipaglaban sa Israel. Hindi nila alam na may lulusob sa kanila galing sa likod ng lungsod. 15 Sina Josue at ang mga tauhan niya ay nagkunwaring natalo sila, at tumakas papuntang ilang. 16 Kaya hinabol silang lahat ng kalalakihan ng Ai hanggang sa unti-unti silang lumalayo sa lungsod. 17 Lahat ng kalalakihan sa Ai at sa Betel ay hinabol ang mga Israelita, kaya walang naiwan para ipagtanggol ang lungsod.
18 Sinabi ng Panginoon kay Josue, “Ituro mo ang sibat mo sa Ai dahil ibibigay ko ito sa inyo.” Kaya itinuro ni Josue ang sibat niya sa Ai. 19 Nang ginawa niya iyon, lumabas at nagsitakbo ang mga tauhan niyang nananambang sa bayan, lumusob sila papasok sa lungsod, at dali-daling sinunog ito. 20 Nang lumingon ang mga taga-Ai, nakita nila ang makapal na usok sa ibabaw ng lungsod. Wala na silang matatakbuhan, dahil bigla na lang silang hinarap ng mga Israelita na hinahabol nila sa ilang. 21 Dahil nang makita ni Josue at ng mga tauhan niya na nakapasok na sa lungsod ang mga kasama nila at sinunog na nila ito, bumalik sila at nilusob ang mga taga-Ai. 22 Lumusob din ang mga Israelitang pumasok sa lungsod, kaya napagitnaan nila ang mga taga-Ai. Pinatay nilang lahat ang mga ito at walang nakatakas o kayaʼy naiwang buhay sa kanila, 23 bukod lang sa hari nila. Binihag siya at dinala kay Josue.
24 Nang mapatay na nilang lahat ang taga-Ai na humabol sa kanila sa ilang, bumalik sila sa lungsod at pinatay din ang lahat ng naiwan doon. 25 Nang araw na iyon, namatay ang lahat ng naninirahan sa Ai – 12,000 lahat, lalaki at babae. 26 Nanatiling nakatutok ang sibat ni Josue sa lugar ng Ai hanggang hindi nalilipol ang lahat ng mamamayan nito. 27 Kinuha ng mga Israelita ang mga hayop at mga ari-arian ng lungsod, ayon sa sinabi ng Panginoon kay Josue. 28 Pagkatapos, ipinasunog ni Josue ang buong Ai, at hindi na ito muling maitatayo; hanggang ngayon wala nang nakatira rito. 29 Pinabitin ni Josue sa isang puno ang hari at pinabayaan doon maghapon. Paglubog ng araw, ipinakuha niya ang bangkay at ipinatapon sa labas ng pintuan ng lungsod. Pinatambakan nila ito ng malaking bunton ng mga bato, at hanggang ngayon ay makikita pa roon ang mga batong ito.
Binasa ang Kasunduan sa Bundok ng Ebal
30 Pagkatapos, nagpagawa si Josue ng altar sa Bundok ng Ebal para sa Panginoon, ang Dios ng Israel. 31 Ipinagawa niya ito ayon sa utos ni Moises na lingkod ng Panginoon sa mga Israelita. Nakasulat ito sa Aklat ng Kautusan ni Moises at ito ang sinasabi: “Gumawa ka ng altar na bato na hindi natabasan ng gamit na bakal.” Sa ibabaw ng altar, nag-alay sila sa Panginoon ng mga handog na sinusunog at mga handog para sa mabuting relasyon. 32 Sa harap ng mga Israelita, kinopya ni Josue sa mga bato[b] ang kautusang isinulat ni Moises. 33 Ang lahat ng mga Israelita, kasama ang kanilang mga tagapamahala, mga opisyal at mga hukom nila, pati ang mga dayuhang kasama nila ay tumayo sa dalawang grupo na magkaharap. Ang isang grupo ay nakatalikod sa Bundok ng Gerizim at ang isaʼy nakatalikod sa Bundok ng Ebal. Sa gitna nila ay nakatayo ang mga paring Levita na nagbubuhat ng Kahon ng Kasunduan. Nag-utos sa kanila noon si Moises na lingkod ng Panginoon na gawin ito sa panahong tatanggapin na nila ang pagbabasbas.
34 Binasa ni Josue ang Aklat ng Kasunduan, pati ang pagpapala at sumpa na nakasulat dito. 35 Isa-isang binasa ni Josue ang mga utos ni Moises sa harap ng buong mamamayan ng Israelita, kasama na ang mga babae, anak at mga dayuhang naninirahan kasama nila.
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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