Joshua 8
Christian Standard Bible
Conquest of Ai
8 The Lord said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid or discouraged.(A) Take all the troops with you and go attack Ai. Look, I have handed over to you the king of Ai, his people, city, and land.(B) 2 Treat Ai and its king as you did Jericho and its king,(C) except that you may plunder its spoil and livestock for yourselves.(D) Set an ambush behind the city.”(E)
3 So Joshua and all the troops set out to attack Ai. Joshua selected thirty thousand of his best soldiers and sent them out at night. 4 He commanded them, “Pay attention. Lie in ambush behind the city, not too far from it, and all of you be ready.(F) 5 Then I and all the people who are with me will approach the city. When they come out against us as they did the first time, we will flee from them. 6 They will come after us until we have drawn them away from the city, for they will say, ‘They are fleeing from us as before.’ While we are fleeing from them, 7 you are to come out of your ambush and seize the city. The Lord your God will hand it over to you. 8 After taking the city, set it on fire. Follow the Lord’s command—see that you do as I have ordered you.” 9 So Joshua sent them out, and they went to the ambush site and waited between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai. But he spent that night with the troops.
10 Joshua started early the next morning and mobilized them. Then he and the elders of Israel led the people up to Ai. 11 All the troops who were with him went up and approached the city, arriving opposite Ai, and camped to the north of it, with a valley between them and the city. 12 Now Joshua had taken about five thousand men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city. 13 The troops were stationed in this way: the main[a] camp to the north of the city and its rear guard to the west of the city. And that night Joshua went into the valley.
14 When the king of Ai saw the Israelites, the men of the city hurried and went out early in the morning so that he and all his people could engage Israel in battle at a suitable place facing the Arabah. But he did not know there was an ambush waiting for him behind the city. 15 Joshua and all Israel pretended to be beaten back by them and fled toward the wilderness.(G) 16 Then all the troops of Ai were summoned to pursue them, and they pursued Joshua and were drawn away from the city. 17 Not a man was left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel, leaving the city exposed while they pursued Israel.
18 Then the Lord said to Joshua, “Hold out the javelin in your hand toward Ai, for I will hand the city over to you.” So Joshua held out his javelin toward it. 19 When he held out his hand, the men in ambush rose quickly from their position. They ran, entered the city, captured it, and immediately set it on fire.
20 The men of Ai turned and looked back, and smoke from the city was rising to the sky! They could not escape in any direction, and the troops who had fled to the wilderness now became the pursuers. 21 When Joshua and all Israel saw that the men in ambush had captured the city and that smoke was rising from it, they turned back and struck down the men of Ai. 22 Then men in ambush came out of the city against them, and the men of Ai were trapped between the Israelite forces, some on one side and some on the other. They struck them down until no survivor or fugitive remained,(H) 23 but they captured the king of Ai alive and brought him to Joshua.
24 When Israel had finished killing everyone living in Ai who had pursued them into the open country, and when every last one of them had fallen by the sword, all Israel returned to Ai and struck it down with the sword. 25 The total of those who fell that day, both men and women, was twelve thousand—all the people of Ai. 26 Joshua did not draw back his hand that was holding the javelin until all the inhabitants of Ai were completely destroyed.(I) 27 Israel plundered only the cattle and spoil of that city for themselves, according to the Lord’s command that he had given Joshua.
28 Joshua burned Ai and left it a permanent ruin, still desolate today.(J) 29 He hung[b] the body of the king of Ai on a tree[c] until evening, and at sunset Joshua commanded that they take his body down from the tree.(K) They threw it down at the entrance of the city gate and put a large pile of rocks over it, which still remains today.
Renewed Commitment to the Law
30 At that time Joshua built an altar on Mount Ebal(L) to the Lord, the God of Israel, 31 just as Moses the Lord’s servant 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 has been used.(M) Then they offered burnt offerings to the Lord and sacrificed fellowship offerings on it. 32 There on the stones, Joshua copied the law of Moses, which he had written in the presence of the Israelites.(N) 33 All Israel—resident alien and citizen alike—with their elders, officers, and judges, stood on either side of the ark of the Lord’s covenant facing the Levitical priests who carried it. Half of them were in front of Mount Gerizim and half in front of Mount Ebal,(O) as Moses the Lord’s servant had commanded earlier concerning blessing the people of Israel.(P) 34 Afterward, Joshua read aloud all the words of the law—the blessings as well as the curses—according to all that is written in the book of the law. 35 There was not a word of all that Moses had commanded that Joshua did not read before the entire assembly of Israel, including the women, the dependents, and the resident aliens who lived among them.(Q)
Josué 8
Biblia del Jubileo
8 ¶ Y el SEÑOR dijo a Josué: No temas, ni desmayes; toma contigo toda la gente de guerra, y levántate y sube a Hai. Mira, yo he entregado en tu mano al rey de Hai, y a su pueblo, a su ciudad, y a su tierra.
2 Y harás a Hai y a su rey como hiciste a Jericó y a su rey; sólo que sus despojos y sus bestias tomaréis para vosotros. Pondrás, pues, emboscadas a la ciudad detrás de ella.
3 ¶ Y se levantó Josué, y toda la gente de guerra, para subir contra Hai; y escogió Josué treinta mil hombres fuertes de valor, los cuales envió de noche.
4 Y les mandó, diciendo: Mirad, pondréis emboscada a la ciudad detrás de ella; no os alejaréis mucho de la ciudad, y estaréis todos apercibidos.
5 Y yo, y todo el pueblo que está conmigo, nos acercaremos a la ciudad; y cuando salgan ellos contra nosotros, como hicieron antes, huiremos delante de ellos,
6 (porque saldrán tras nosotros,) hasta que los arranquemos de la ciudad; porque ellos dirán: Huyen de nosotros como la primera vez. Huiremos, pues, delante de ellos.
7 Entonces vosotros os levantaréis de la emboscada, y poseeréis la ciudad; pues el SEÑOR vuestro Dios la entregará en vuestras manos.
8 Y cuando la hubiereis tomado, le prenderéis fuego. Haréis conforme a la palabra del SEÑOR. Mirad que os lo he mandado.
9 Entonces Josué los envió; y ellos se fueron a la emboscada, y se pusieron entre Bet-el y Hai, al occidente de Hai; y Josué se quedó aquella noche en medio del pueblo.
10 Y levantándose Josué muy de mañana, contó al pueblo, y subió él, con los ancianos de Israel, delante del pueblo contra Hai.
11 Y toda la gente de guerra que con él estaba, subió, y se acercó, y llegaron delante de la ciudad, y asentaron el campamento a la parte del norte de Hai; y el valle estaba entre él y Hai.
12 Y tomó como cinco mil hombres, y los puso en emboscada entre Bet-el y Hai, a la parte occidental de la ciudad.
13 Y el pueblo, todo el campamento que estaba al lado del norte, se acercó a la ciudad; y su emboscada al occidente de la ciudad. Y Josué fue aquella noche al medio del valle.
14 Lo cual cuando vio el rey de Hai, se levantó prestamente de mañana, y salió con los hombres de la ciudad contra Israel para pelear, él y todo su pueblo en un tiempo señalado, por el llano, no sabiendo que le estaba puesta emboscada a las espaldas de la ciudad.
15 Entonces Josué y todo Israel, como vencidos, huyeron delante de ellos por el camino del desierto.
16 Y todo el pueblo que estaba en Hai fueron llamados a juntarsen para seguirlos; y siguieron a Josué, siendo así arrancados de la ciudad.
17 Y no quedó hombre en Hai y Bet-el, que no saliera tras de Israel; y por seguir a Israel dejaron la ciudad abierta.
18 Entonces el SEÑOR dijo a Josué: Levanta la lanza que tienes en tu mano hacia Hai, porque yo la entregaré en tu mano. Y Josué levantó la lanza que tenía en su mano, hacia la ciudad.
19 Y levantándose prestamente de su lugar los que estaban en la emboscada corrieron, cuando él alzó su mano, y vinieron a la ciudad, y la tomaron, y se apresuraron a prenderle fuego.
20 Y cuando los hombres de Hai miraron atrás, observaron, y he aquí el humo de la ciudad que subía al cielo, y no tuvieron poder para huir ni a una parte ni a otra; y el pueblo que iba huyendo hacia el desierto, se volvió contra los que le seguían.
21 Entonces Josué y todo Israel, viendo que los de la emboscada habían tomado la ciudad; y que el humo de la ciudad subía, se volvieron, e hirieron a los de Hai.
22 Y los otros salieron de la ciudad a su encuentro; y así fueron encerrados en medio de Israel, los unos por un lado, y los otros por la otra. Y así los hirieron hasta que no quedó ninguno de ellos que escapara.
23 ¶ Y tomaron vivo al rey de Hai, y lo trajeron a Josué.
24 Y cuando los israelitas acabaron de matar a todos los moradores de Hai en el campo, en el desierto, donde ellos los habían perseguido, y que todos habían caído a filo de espada hasta ser consumidos, todos los israelitas volvieron a Hai, y también la pusieron a espada.
25 Y el número de los que cayeron aquel día, hombres y mujeres, fue doce mil, todos los varones de Hai.
26 Porque Josué no retrajo su mano que había extendido con la lanza, hasta que hubo destruido a todos los moradores de Hai.
27 Pero los israelitas tomaron para sí las bestias y los despojos de la ciudad, conforme a la palabra del SEÑOR que él había mandado a Josué.
28 Y Josué quemó a Hai y la redujo a un montón perpetuo, asolado hasta hoy.
29 Mas al rey de Hai lo colgó de un madero hasta la tarde; y cuando el sol se puso, mandó Josué que quitaran del madero su cuerpo, y lo echaran a la puerta de la ciudad; y levantaron sobre él un gran montón de piedras, hasta hoy.
30 ¶ Entonces Josué edificó un altar al SEÑOR Dios de Israel en el monte de Ebal,
31 como Moisés, esclavo del SEÑOR, lo había mandado a los hijos de Israel, como está escrito en el libro de la ley de Moisés; un altar de piedras enteras, sobre las cuales nadie alzó herramienta de hierro; y ofrecieron sobre él holocaustos al SEÑOR, y sacrificaron ofrendas pacíficas.
32 También escribió allí en piedras la repetición de la ley de Moisés, la cual él había escrito delante de los hijos de Israel.
33 Y todo Israel, y sus ancianos, oficiales, y jueces, estaban a uno y otro lado junto al arca, delante de los sacerdotes levitas que llevan el arca del pacto del SEÑOR; así los extranjeros como los naturales, la mitad de ellos estaba hacia el monte de Gerizim, y la otra mitad hacia el monte de Ebal; de la manera que Moisés, esclavo del SEÑOR, lo había mandado antes, para que bendijeran al pueblo de Israel.
34 Después de esto, hizo leer todas las palabras de la ley; las bendiciones y las maldiciones, conforme a todo lo que está escrito en el libro de la ley.
35 No hubo palabra alguna de todas las cosas que mandó Moisés, que Josué no hiciera leer delante de toda la congregación de Israel, mujeres y niños, y extranjeros que andaban entre ellos.
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
Исус Навин 8
Библия, ревизирано издание
Завладяване на Гай
8 (A)След това Господ каза на Исус: Не бой се, нито се ужасявай! Вземи със себе си всичките военни мъже, стани и се изкачи в Гай. Аз предадох в ръката ти гайския цар, народа му, града му и земята му;
2 (B)и да сториш на Гай и царя му, както стори на Йерихон и царя му; само че ще вземете за себе си плячката и добитъка. Постави против града засада от задната му страна.
3 Тогава Исус тръгна с всичките военни мъже, за да отиде в Гай. Той избра тридесет хиляди мъже, силни и храбри, изпрати ги през нощта
4 (C)и им заповяда: Внимавайте, поставете засада против града от задната му страна. Не се отдалечавайте много от града и бъдете готови,
5 (D)а аз и всички хора, които с мене, ще се приближим до града. И когато гайците излязат против нас, както преди, тогава ние ще побегнем от тях.
6 Те ще тръгнат след нас, докато ги отдалечим от града; защото ще си кажат: Те бягат от нас, както преди; и ние ще побегнем от тях.
7 Тогава вие ще вдигнете засадата и ще превземете града; защото Господ, вашият Бог, ще го предаде в ръката ви.
8 (E)След като превземете града, запалете го, направете, както Господ ви заповяда; ето, заповядах ви.
9 И така, Исус ги изпрати; и те се скриха в засада. Установиха се между Ветил и Гай на запад от Гай; а Исус остана през онази нощ с народа.
10 Исус, като стана рано на сутринта и прегледа народа, застана с Израилевите старейшини отпред и тръгнаха към Гай.
11 (F)И всичките военни мъже, които бяха с него, се приближиха до града и разположиха стан на север от Гай. Между тях и Гай имаше долина.
12 Исус взе около пет хиляди мъже и постави засада между Ветил и Гай на запад от града.
13 След като строиха народа – цялото войнство, което беше на север от града, както и засадата на запад от града, – Исус отиде през онази нощ в долината.
14 (G)А гайският цар, като видя това, побърза, той и неговите хора, мъжете на града, и станаха рано, и в определен час излязоха на полето на бой против Израил. Царят обаче не знаеше, че има засада против него зад града.
15 (H)А Исус и целият Израил се престориха на разбити пред тях и побегнаха по пътя за пустинята.
16 И всичките гайци бяха свикани, за да ги гонят. Като гонеха Исус, гайците се отдалечиха от града.
17 Така в Гай и Ветил не остана никой. Всички излязоха след Израил; те оставиха града отворен и преследваха Израил.
18 Тогава Господ каза на Исус: Простри към Гай копието, което държиш, защото ще предам града в ръката ти. И така, Исус простря към града копието, което държеше в ръката си.
19 И щом протегна ръката си, засадата се вдигна бързо от мястото си, нахлуха внезапно в града, превзеха го и побързаха да го запалят.
20 А когато гайските мъже погледнаха назад, видяха, че от града се издига дим към небето; и нямаха къде да бягат – нито напред, нито назад, понеже народът, който бягаше към пустинята, се обърна назад против преследвачите си.
21 А Исус и целият Израил, като видяха, че хората от засадата бяха превзели града и че оттам се издига дим, се обърнаха назад и поразиха гайските мъже.
22 (I)Другите също излязоха от града против гайците; и така, те се намериха между израилтяните, които бяха от двете им страни; и израилтяните поразиха гайците така, че не оставиха никого жив или да избяга.
23 А царя на Гай хванаха жив и го доведоха при Исус.
24 Израил изби всичките жители на Гай в полето и пустинята, докъдето ги гонеха, и те всички паднаха от меча, докато бяха унищожени. Тогава целият Израил се върна в Гай и поразиха града с острието на меча.
25 И всичките загинали в онзи ден, мъже и жени, бяха дванадесет хиляди души, всичките гайци.
26 Защото Исус не прибра ръката си, с която беше прострял копието, докато не унищожи като обречени всичките жители на Гай.
27 (J)Израил остави за себе си добитъка и плячката на Гай, както Господ заповяда на Исус.
28 (K)И така, Исус изгори Гай и го направи завинаги куп развалини, както е до днес.
29 (L)А царя на Гай обеси на дърво и го остави да виси до вечерта. След като слънцето залезе, Исус заповяда да снемат трупа му от дървото и да го хвърлят във входа на градската порта, и натрупаха върху него голяма грамада камъни, която е там и до днес.
30 (M)Тогава Исус издигна жертвеник на Господа, Израилевия Бог, на хълма Гевал,
31 (N)както Господният слуга Моисей беше заповядал на израилтяните според написаното в книгата на Моисеевия закон – жертвеник от цели камъни, по които желязно сечиво не се беше допирало; и принесоха на него всеизгаряния на Господа и пожертваха мирни приноси.
32 (O)Там, на камъните, пред израилтяните, Исус написа един препис на Моисеевия закон.
33 (P)И целият Израил със старейшините им, първенците и съдиите им, чужденци и местни застанаха от двете страни на ковчега срещу левитските свещеници, които държаха ковчега на Господния завет, половината от страната на хълма Гаризин и половината от страната на хълма Гевал, както Господният слуга Моисей беше заповядал най-напред, за да благословят Израилевия народ.
34 (Q)След това Исус прочете всичките думи на закона, благословенията и проклятията според това, което беше написано в Книгата на закона.
35 (R)От всичко, което заповяда Моисей, нямаше дума, която Исус да не прочете пред всичките събрани израилтяни с жените, децата и чужденците, които се намираха между тях.
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