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Joshua 8
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Joshua 8
New King James Version
The Fall of Ai
8 Now the Lord said to Joshua: (A)“Do not be afraid, nor be dismayed; take all the people of war with you, and arise, go up to Ai. See, (B)I have given into your hand the king of Ai, his people, his city, and his land. 2 And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to (C)Jericho and its king. Only (D)its spoil and its cattle you shall take as booty for yourselves. Lay 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 thirty thousand mighty men of valor and sent them away by night. 4 And he commanded them, saying: “Behold, (E)you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city. Do not go very far from the city, but all of you be ready. 5 Then I and all the people who are with me will approach the city; and it will come about, when they come out against us as at the first, that (F)we shall flee before them. 6 For they will come out after us till we have drawn them from the city, for they will say, ‘They are fleeing before us as at the first.’ Therefore we will flee before them. 7 Then you shall rise from the ambush and seize the city, for the Lord your God will deliver it into your hand. 8 And it will be, when you have taken the city, that you shall set the city on fire. According to the commandment of the Lord you shall do. (G)See, I have commanded you.”
9 Joshua therefore sent them out; and they went to lie in ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai; but Joshua lodged that night among the people. 10 Then Joshua rose up early in the morning and mustered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai. 11 (H)And all the people of war who were with him went up and drew near; and they came before the city and camped on the north side of Ai. Now a valley lay between them and Ai. 12 So he took about five thousand men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of [a]the city. 13 And when they had set the people, all the army that was on the north of the city, and its rear guard on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.
14 Now it happened, when the king of Ai saw it, that the men of the city hurried and rose early and went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at an appointed place before the plain. But he (I)did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city. 15 And Joshua and all Israel (J)made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness. 16 So all the people who were in Ai were called together to pursue them. And they pursued Joshua and were drawn away from the city. 17 There was not a man left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel. So they left the city open and pursued Israel.
18 Then the Lord said to Joshua, “Stretch out the spear that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand.” And Joshua stretched out the spear that was in his hand toward the city. 19 So those in ambush arose quickly out of their place; they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand, and they entered the city and took it, and hurried to 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 to heaven. So they had no power to flee this way or that way, and the people who had fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers.
21 Now when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city and that the smoke of the city ascended, they turned back and struck down the men of Ai. 22 Then the others came out of the city against them; so they were caught in the midst of Israel, some on this side and some on that side. And they struck them down, so that they (K)let none of them remain or escape. 23 But 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 where they pursued them, and when they all had fallen by the edge of the sword until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned to Ai and struck it with the edge of the sword. 25 So it was that all who fell that day, both men and women, were twelve thousand—all the people of Ai. 26 For Joshua did not draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the spear, until he had (L)utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai. 27 (M)Only the livestock and the spoil of that city Israel took as booty for themselves, according to the word of the Lord which He had (N)commanded Joshua. 28 So Joshua burned Ai and made it (O)a heap forever, a desolation to this day. 29 (P)And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until evening. (Q)And as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his corpse down from the tree, cast it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and (R)raise over it a great heap of stones that remains to this day.
Joshua Renews the Covenant(S)
30 Now Joshua built an altar to the Lord God of Israel (T)in Mount Ebal, 31 as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the Book of the Law of Moses: (U)“an altar of whole stones over which no man has wielded an iron tool.” And (V)they offered on it burnt offerings to the Lord, and sacrificed peace offerings. 32 And there, in the presence of the children of Israel, (W)he wrote on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he had written. 33 Then all Israel, with their elders and officers and judges, stood on either side of the ark before the priests, the Levites, (X)who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord, (Y)the stranger as well as he who was born among them. Half of them were in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, (Z)as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel. 34 And afterward (AA)he read all the words of the law, (AB)the blessings and the cursings, according to all that is written in the (AC)Book of the Law. 35 There was not a word of all that Moses had commanded which Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel, (AD)with the women, the little ones, (AE)and the strangers who were living among them.
Footnotes
- Joshua 8:12 Ai
Giosué 8
Conferenza Episcopale Italiana
Giosué 8
Conferenza Episcopale Italiana
4. PRESA DI AI
Ordine dato a Giosuè
8 Il Signore disse a Giosuè: «Non temere e non abbatterti. Prendi con te tutti i guerrieri. Su, và contro Ai. Vedi, io ti metto in mano il re di Ai, il suo popolo, la sua città e il suo territorio. 2 Farai ad Ai e al suo re come hai fatto a Gerico e al suo re; tuttavia prenderete per voi il suo bottino e il suo bestiame. Tendi un agguato contro Ai, dietro ad essa».
Manovra di Giosuè
3 Giosuè dunque e tutti quelli del popolo atti alla guerra si accinsero ad assalire Ai; Giosuè scelse trentamila uomini, guerrieri valenti, li inviò di notte 4 e comandò loro: «State attenti: voi tenderete un agguato contro la città, dietro ad essa. Non allontanatevi troppo dalla città e state tutti pronti. 5 Io, con tutta la gente, mi avvicinerò alla città. Ora, quando essi usciranno contro di noi come l'altra volta, noi fuggiremo davanti a loro. 6 Essi usciranno ad inseguirci finché noi li avremo tirati lontani dalla città, perché diranno: Fuggono davanti a noi come l'altra volta! Mentre noi fuggiremo davanti a loro, 7 voi balzerete dall'agguato e occuperete la città e il Signore vostro Dio la metterà in vostro potere. 8 Come l'avrete in potere, appiccherete il fuoco alla città: farete secondo il comando del Signore. Fate attenzione! Questo è il mio comando». 9 Giosuè allora li inviò ed essi andarono al luogo dell'agguato e si posero fra Betel e Ai, ad occidente di Ai; Giosuè passò quella notte in mezzo al popolo. 10 Si alzò di buon mattino, passò in rassegna il popolo e andò con gli anziani di Israele alla testa del popolo verso Ai. 11 Tutti quelli del popolo atti alla guerra, che erano con lui, salendo avanzarono e arrivarono di fronte alla città e si accamparono a nord di Ai. Tra Giosuè e Ai c'era di mezzo la valle. 12 Prese circa cinquemila uomini e li pose in agguato tra Betel e Ai, ad occidente della città. 13 Il popolo pose l'accampamento a nord di Ai mentre l'agguato era ad occidente della città; Giosuè andò quella notte in mezzo alla valle.
Battaglia di Ai
14 Non appena il re di Ai si accorse di ciò, gli uomini della città si alzarono in fretta e uscirono per il combattimento incontro ad Israele, il re con tutto il popolo, verso il pendio di fronte all'Araba. Egli non s'accorse che era teso un agguato contro di lui dietro la città. 15 Giosuè e tutto Israele si diedero per vinti dinanzi a loro e fuggirono per la via del deserto. 16 Tutta la gente che era dentro la città corse ad inseguirli; inseguirono Giosuè e furono attirati lontano dalla città. 17 Non ci rimase in Ai nessuno che non inseguisse Israele e così lasciarono aperta la città per inseguire Israele.
18 Disse allora il Signore a Giosuè: «Tendi verso la città il giavellotto che tieni in mano, perché io te la metto nelle mani». Giosuè tese il giavellotto, che teneva in mano, verso la città. 19 Come ebbe stesa la mano, quelli che erano in agguato balzarono subito dal loro nascondiglio, entrarono di corsa nella città, la occuparono e s'affrettarono ad appiccarvi il fuoco.
20 Gli uomini di Ai si voltarono indietro ed ecco videro che il fumo della città si alzava verso il cielo. Allora non ci fu più possibilità per loro di fuggire in alcuna direzione, mentre il popolo che fuggiva verso il deserto si rivolgeva contro quelli che lo inseguivano. 21 Infatti Giosuè e tutto Israele s'erano accorti che il gruppo in agguato aveva occupata la città e che il fumo della città si era levato; si voltarono dunque indietro e colpirono gli uomini di Ai. 22 Anche gli altri uscirono dalcirono dalla città contro di loro, e così i combattenti di Ai si trovarono in mezzo agli Israeliti, avendoli da una parte e dall'altra. Li colpirono finché non rimase nessun superstite e fuggiasco. 23 Il re di Ai lo presero vivo e lo condussero da Giosuè. 24 Quando Israele ebbe finito di uccidere tutti i combattenti di Ai nella campagna, nel deserto, dove quelli li avevano inseguiti, e tutti fino all'ultimo furono caduti sotto i colpi della sIsraeliti si riversarono in massa in Ai e la colpirono a fil di spada. 25 Tutti i caduti in quel giorno, uomini e donne, furono dodicimila, tutti di Ai.
Lo sterminio e la rovina
26 Giosuè non ritirò la mano, che brandiva il giavellotto, finché non ebbero votato allo sterminio tutti gli abitanti di Ai. 27 Gli Israeliti, secondo l'ordine che il Signore aveva dato a Giosuè, trattennero per sé soltanto il bestiame e il bottino della città. 28 Poi Giosuè incendiò Ai e ne fece una rovina per sempre, una desolazione fino ad oggi. 29 Fece appendere il re di Ai ad un albero fino alla sera. Al calar del sole Giosuè comandò che il suo cadavere fosse calato dall'albero; lo gettarono all'ingresso della porta della città e vi eressero sopra un gran mucchio di pietre, che dura fino ad oggi.
5. SACRIFICIO E LETTURA DELLA LEGGE SUL MONTE EBAL
L'altare di pietra grezza
30 In quell'occasione Giosuè costruì un altare al Signore, Dio di Israele, sul monte Ebal, 31 secondo quanto aveva ordinato Mosè, servo del Signore, agli Israeliti, come è scritto nel libro della legge di Mosè, un altare di pietre intatte, non toccate dal ferro; vi si sacrificarono sopra olocausti e si offrirono sacrifici di comunione.
Lettura della legge
32 In quel luogo scrisse sulle pietre una copia della legge di Mosè, che questi aveva scritto per gli Israeliti. 33 Tutto Israele, i suoi anziani, i suoi scribi, tutti i suoi giudici, forestieri e cittadini stavano in piedi da una parte e dall'altra dell'arca, di fronte ai sacerdoti leviti, che portavano l'arca dell'alleanza del Signore, una metà verso il monte Garizim e l'altra metà verso il monte Ebal, come aveva prima prescritto Mosè, servo del Signore, per benedire il popolo di Israele. 34 Giosuè lesse tutte le parole della legge, la benedizione e la maledizione, secondo quanto è scritto nel libro della legge. 35 Non ci fu parola, di quante Mosè aveva comandate, che Giosuè non leggesse davanti a tutta l'assemblea di Israele, comprese le donne, i fanciulli e i forestieri che soggiornavano in mezzo a loro.
Иеш 8
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Иеш 8
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Взятие и разрушение Гая
8 Вечный сказал Иешуа:
– Не бойся и не теряй присутствия духа. Возьми с собой всё своё войско, иди и напади на Гай. Ведь я отдал в твои руки царя Гая, его народ, его город и его землю. 2 Сделай с Гаем и его царём то же, что ты сделал с Иерихоном и его царём, разве что добычу и скот вы можете взять себе. Сделай засаду позади города.
3 Иешуа со всем войском пошёл на Гай. Он отобрал тридцать тысяч лучших воинов и отослал их ночью, 4 приказав:
– Слушайте внимательно! Вы должны устроить засаду позади города. Не отходите от него слишком далеко. Все будьте наготове. 5 Я и все, кто со мной, подойдём к городу, и когда они выйдут против нас, как и раньше, мы побежим от них. 6 Они будут преследовать нас, и так мы отвлечём их от города. Они скажут: «Они бегут от нас, как и раньше». Поэтому, когда мы побежим от них, 7 выйдите из засады и завладейте городом. Вечный, ваш Бог, отдаст его в ваши руки. 8 Когда вы захватите город, подожгите его. Исполните всё, что повелел Вечный. Это мой приказ вам!
9 Иешуа отослал их, и они, отправившись на место засады, засели между Вефилем и Гаем, к западу от Гая, а Иешуа провёл ту ночь с народом.
10 Наутро Иешуа встал рано, осмотрел народ и вместе со старейшинами Исроила пошёл впереди народа к Гаю. 11 Все воины, которые были с ним, приблизились к городу и остановились. Они разбили лагерь к северу от Гая, а от города их отделяла долина. 12 (Иешуа взял около пяти тысяч человек и посадил их в засаду между Вефилем и Гаем, к западу от города. 13 Его войско расположилось так, что основной стан был к северу от города, а засада – к западу.)
Той ночью Иешуа вошёл в долину. 14 Когда царь Гая увидел это, он и все люди города поспешили рано утром выйти на назначенное место перед иорданской долиной, чтобы сразиться с Исроилом. Но он не знал, что против него позади города была поставлена засада. 15 Иешуа и весь Исроил, притворившись будто они разбиты людьми Гая, побежали к пустыне. 16 А те позвали весь народ, который был в городе, в погоню и, преследуя Иешуа, отдалились от города. 17 Ни в Гае, ни в Вефиле не осталось ни одного воина, который не погнался бы вслед за Исроилом. Они пустились в погоню за Исроилом, не заперев городских ворот.
18 Тогда Вечный сказал Иешуа:
– Протяни к Гаю копьё, что у тебя в руке, Я отдам город в твои руки.
И Иешуа протянул своё копьё к Гаю. 19 Как только он сделал это, люди в засаде немедленно поднялись со своего места и ринулись вперёд. Они вошли в город, взяли его и тотчас же подожгли. 20 Воины Гая оглянулись и увидели, как дым от города поднимается к небу, но не могли никуда бежать, потому что исроильтяне, которые бежали к пустыне, обратились на своих преследователей. 21 Ведь когда Иешуа и весь Исроил увидели, что засада захватила город и из него поднимается дым, они повернули назад и атаковали людей Гая. 22 Люди из засады также вышли против них из города, так что те оказались зажатыми с обеих сторон исроильтянами. Исроил разил их, не оставляя ни одного из них в живых, ни уцелевших, ни убежавших. 23 Но царя Гая они взяли живым и привели его к Иешуа.
24 Когда Исроил закончил убивать всех жителей Гая в полях и в пустыне, куда они их загнали, и когда каждый из них был предан мечу, все исроильтяне вернулись в Гай и перебили тех, кто оставался в нём. 25 В тот день пало двенадцать тысяч мужчин и женщин – всё население Гая. 26 Иешуа не опускал руку с копьём, пока полностью не истребил всех жителей Гая. 27 Но исроильтяне взяли себе скот и добычу из этого города, как Вечный повелел Иешуа.
28 Иешуа сжёг Гай и навеки сделал его грудой развалин, опустошённым местом и до сегодняшнего дня. 29 Он повесил царя Гая на дереве и оставил его висеть там до вечера. На закате Иешуа приказал, и его тело сняли с дерева и бросили у входа перед городскими воротами. Люди набросали над ним большую груду камней, которая возвышается там и до сих пор.
Обновление священного соглашения на горе Гевал
30 Иешуа построил на горе Гевал жертвенник Вечному, Богу Исроила, 31 как велел исроильтянам Мусо, раб Вечного. Он построил его в соответствии с написанным в книге Закона, переданного через Мусо, – жертвенник из нетёсаных камней, которые не обрабатывали никаким железным орудием. На нём исроильтяне принесли Вечному жертвы всесожжения и жертвы примирения. 32 Там, в присутствии исроильтян, Иешуа переписал на камни Закон Мусо. 33 Весь Исроил – и чужеземцы, и уроженцы страны, со своими старейшинами, вождями и судьями, – стоял по обе стороны от сундука соглашения напротив священнослужителей-левитов, нёсших его. Одна половина народа стояла напротив горы Геризим, а другая половина – напротив горы Гевал, как велел прежде Мусо, раб Вечного, когда давал наставления как благословлять народ Исроила.
34 Потом Иешуа прочитал все слова Закона – благословения и проклятия – точно так, как записаны они в книге Закона. 35 Из всего, что велел Мусо, не было ни одного слова, которое Иешуа не прочитал бы всему собранию Исроила, включая женщин, детей и чужеземцев, которые жили среди них.
Joshua 8
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Joshua 8
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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.
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