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
Joshua 8
English Standard Version
The Fall of Ai
8 And the Lord said to Joshua, (A)“Do not fear and do not be dismayed. Take all the fighting men with you, and arise, go up to Ai. See, (B)I have given into your hand the king of Ai, and his people, his city, and his land. 2 And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did (C)to Jericho and its king. Only (D)its spoil and its livestock you shall take as plunder for yourselves. Lay an ambush against the city, behind it.”
3 So Joshua and all the fighting men arose to go up to Ai. And Joshua chose 30,000 mighty men of valor and sent them out by night. 4 And he commanded them, “Behold, (E)you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind it. Do not go very far from the city, but all of you remain ready. 5 And I and all the people who are with me will approach the city. And when they come out against us (F)just as before, we shall flee before them. 6 And they will come out after us, until we have (G)drawn them away from the city. For they will say, ‘They are fleeing from us, just as before.’ So we will flee before them. 7 Then you shall rise up from the ambush and seize the city, for the Lord your God will give it into your hand. 8 And as soon as you have taken the city, you shall set the city on fire. You shall do according to the word of the Lord. (H)See, I have commanded you.” 9 So Joshua sent them out. And they went to the place of ambush and lay between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai, but Joshua spent that night among the people.
10 Joshua arose early in the morning and mustered the people and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai. 11 And (I)all the fighting men who were with him went up and drew near before the city and encamped on the north side of Ai, with a ravine between them and Ai. 12 He took about 5,000 men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city. 13 So they stationed the forces, the main encampment that was north of the city and its rear guard west of the city. But Joshua spent that night in the valley. 14 And as soon as the king of Ai saw this, he and all his people, the men of the city, hurried and went out early to the appointed place[a] toward (J)the Arabah to meet Israel in battle. (K)But he did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city. 15 And Joshua and all Israel (L)pretended to be beaten before them and fled in the direction of the wilderness. 16 So all the people who were in the city were called together to pursue them, and as they pursued Joshua they (M)were drawn away from the city. 17 Not a man was left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel. They left the city open and pursued Israel.
18 Then the Lord said to Joshua, (N)“Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand.” And Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city. 19 And the men in the ambush rose quickly out of their place, and as soon as he had stretched out his hand, they ran and entered the city and captured it. And they hurried to set the city on fire. 20 So when the men of Ai looked back, behold, the smoke of the city went up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that, for the people who fled to the wilderness turned back against the pursuers. 21 And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had captured the city, and that the smoke of the city went up, then they turned back and struck down the men of Ai. 22 And the others came out from the city against them, so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side. And Israel struck them down, until there was (O)left none that survived or escaped. 23 But the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him near to Joshua.
24 When Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the open wilderness where they pursued them, and all of them to the very last had fallen by the edge of the sword, all Israel returned to Ai and struck it down with the edge of the sword. 25 And all who fell that day, both men and women, were 12,000, all the people of Ai. 26 But Joshua did not draw back his hand with which he (P)stretched out the javelin until he had devoted all the inhabitants of Ai to destruction.[b] 27 Only the livestock and the spoil of that city Israel took as their plunder, according to the word of the Lord that he (Q)commanded Joshua. 28 So Joshua burned Ai and made it forever a (R)heap of ruins, as it is to this day. 29 (S)And he hanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening. (T)And at sunset Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city and (U)raised over it a great heap of stones, which stands there to this day.
Joshua Renews the Covenant
30 At that time Joshua built an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel, (V)on Mount Ebal, 31 just as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded the people of Israel, as it is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, “an altar of uncut stones, upon which no man has wielded an iron tool.” And they offered on it burnt offerings to the Lord and sacrificed peace offerings. 32 And there, in the presence of the people of Israel, he wrote on (W)the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he had written. 33 And all Israel, (X)sojourner as well as native born, with their elders and officers and their judges, stood on opposite sides of the ark before the Levitical priests (Y)who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, half of them in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, (Z)just as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded at the first, to bless the people of Israel. 34 And afterward (AA)he read all the words of the law, (AB)the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the Book of the Law. 35 There was not a word of all that Moses commanded that Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel, (AC)and the women, and the little ones, and (AD)the sojourners who lived[c] among them.
Footnotes
- Joshua 8:14 Hebrew appointed time
- Joshua 8:26 That is, set apart (devoted) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction)
- Joshua 8:35 Or traveled
Књига Исуса Навина 8
New Serbian Translation
Заузимање Гаја
8 Господ рече Исусу: „Не бој се и не страхуј! Поведи са собом све ратнике, па крени горе на Гај. Види, у твоје руке ћу предати ајскога цара, његов народ, његов град и његову земљу. 2 Са Гајом и његовим царем ћеш учинити исто што си учинио са Јерихоном и његовим царем; али, плен и стоку из њега можете да узмете за себе. Постави заседу граду с леђа.“
3 Исус се спреми са свим ратницима да нападне Гај. Изабрао је тридесет хиљада најбољих ратника и послао их ноћу. 4 Наредио им је: „Пазите! Заузмите бусију иза града, али се не удаљавајте превише од града. Сви будите спремни. 5 А ја и сав народ који ме прати приближићемо се граду. Кад они изађу на нас као први пут, ми ћемо се дати у бег пред њима. 6 Они ће нас гонити док их не одмамимо од града, јер ће мислити: ’Беже испред нас, као раније.’ Док ми будемо бежали испред њих, 7 ви се дигните из заседе и заузмите град. Господ, Бог ваш, предаће га у ваше руке. 8 Кад заузмете град, спалите га огњем. Учините то по Господњој заповеди. Пазите на ово што сам вам заповедио!“
9 Исус их посла и они одоше у заседу. Сместили су се између Ветиља и Гаја, западно од Гаја. Исус је ту ноћ провео међу народом.
10 Исус је устао раним јутром и постројио народ, па је са израиљским старешинама кренуо горе пред народом на Гај. 11 Сви ратници који су били с њим су кренули и приступили граду. Утаборили су се северно од Гаја, тако да је долина била између њих и Гаја. 12 Повео је око пет хиљада људи. Поставио их је у заседу између Ветиља и Гаја, западно од града. 13 Народ је поставио главни табор северно од града, док се заседа сместила западно од града. Те ноћи је Исус отишао у долину.
14 Кад их је гајски цар угледао, стрчали су се ујутро он и сав његов народ и изашли низ обронак према Арави у бој против Израиља. Међутим, није знао да му је иза града постављена заседа. 15 Тада Исус и сав Израиљ почеше да беже, као да су их победили. 16 Гајани на то позваше све људе из града да их гоне. Гонећи тако Исуса, били су одвучени од града. 17 Није било човека у Гају и у Ветиљу, који није изашао да гони Израиљце; оставили су град отворен гонећи Израиљце.
18 Тада Господ рече Исусу: „Испружи копље што ти је у руци према Гају, јер ћу га предати у твоје руке.“ Исус испружи копље у својој руци према граду. 19 Чим је испружио руку, заседа се хитро диже са свога места и јурну напред. Ушли су у град и освојили га, те га у трен ока запалили.
20 Кад су се Гајани осврнули, видели су како се из града диже дим ка небу. Нико од њих није имао где да побегне, јер се народ који је бежао према пустињи окренуо против прогонитеља. 21 Јер кад су Исус и сав Израиљ видели да је заседа освојила град, и да се дим диже из града, окренули су се и напали Гајане. 22 Онда су и они из града изашли на њих, тако да су се Гајани нашли усред Израиљаца, опкољени са обе стране. Израиљци су их тако потукли да ниједан није преживео, нити утекао. 23 А гајскога цара су ухватили живог и довели га пред Исуса.
24 А кад су Израиљци побили све становнике Гаја који су их гонили напољу, у пустињи, те кад су сви до последњег изгинули од оштрице мача, сви Израиљци су се вратили у Гај и побили становништво оштрицом мача. 25 Мушкараца и жена који су страдали тога дана било је дванаест хиљада, све житељи Гаја. 26 Исус није повукао своју руку коју је испружио са копљем све док сви житељи Гаја нису били изручени клетом уништењу. 27 Израиљци су запленили за себе само стоку и плен из тог града, према наредби коју је Господ дао Исусу.
28 Исус је спалио Гај и учинио га заувек рушевином, опустелим местом све до данас. 29 А гајскога цара је обесио о дрво до вечери. Чим је сунце изашло, Исус је наредио да скину леш са дрвета. Бацили су га на улаз градске капије и навалили на њега гомилу великог камења, која стоји тамо све до данас.
Обнова савеза на гори Евал
30 Тада је Исус подигао жртвеник Господу, Богу Израиљевом, на гори Евал, 31 као што је Мојсије, слуга Господњи, заповедио Израиљцима, како је написано у књизи Мојсијевог Закона – жртвеник од нетесаног камења, необрађеног гвожђем. На њему су принели Господу жртве свеспалнице и жртве мира. 32 Затим је пред Израиљцима преписао на камењу Закон Мојсијев, који је он био написао. 33 Сав Израиљ – странци и домаћи – са њиховим старешинама, заповедницима и судијама, стали су с обе стране Ковчега испред свештеника и Левита који су носили Ковчег савеза Господњег. Половина је била окренута према гори Геризиму, а половина према гори Евалу, као што им је својевремено заповедио Мојсије, слуга Господњи, како би народ израиљски примио благослов.
34 Затим је Исус прочитао све речи Закона: благослов и проклетство, као што је написано у књизи Закона. 35 Од свих речи које је Мојсије заповедио, није било ниједне коју Исус није прочитао пред целим сабором израиљским, пред женама, децом и дошљацима који су боравили међу њима.
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