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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.
Joshua 8
New King James Version
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
Josue 8
Ang Pulong Sang Dios
Josue 8
Ang Pulong Sang Dios
Ang Pag-agaw kag Paglaglag sang Ai
8 Karon, nagsiling ang Ginoo kay Josue, “Indi ka magkahadlok ukon magkaluya. Tipuna ang tanan mo nga soldado kag salakaya liwat ang Ai, kay itugyan ko sa imo mga kamot ang hari sang Ai, ang iya katawhan, ang iya banwa kag ang iya mga duta. 2 Himuon ninyo sa Ai kag sa iya hari ang ginhimo ninyo sa Jerico kag sa iya hari; pero sa sini nga tion, kuhaon ninyo ang ila mga pagkabutang kag mga kasapatan para sa inyo kaugalingon. Magpreparar kamo kag ambusa ninyo sila sa likod sang banwa.”
3 Gani nagpreparar si Josue kag ang tanan niya nga mga soldado sa pagsalakay sa Ai. Nagpili si Josue sang 30,000 ka soldado nga maayo gid magpakig-away kag ginpalakat sang gab-i. 4 Amo ini ang bilin ni Josue sa ila: “Panago kamo sa likod sang banwa, pero indi lang gid kamo magpalayo. Magpreparar kamo sa pagsalakay sa bisan ano nga oras. 5 Ako kag ang akon mga kaupod magasalakay sa atubangan. Kon magguwa na gani sila sa pagpakig-away sa amon, mapalagyo kami, pareho sa natabo sang una. 6 Magahunahuna sila nga nahadlok kami pareho sadto, gani lagson nila kami hasta nga makapalayo sila sa banwa. 7 Dayon magguwa kamo sa inyo ginapanaguan kag agawon ang banwa. Ihatag ini sa inyo sang Ginoo nga inyo Dios. 8 Kon maagaw na ninyo ang banwa, sunuga ninyo ini suno sa sugo sang Ginoo. Siguruhon ninyo nga matuman gid ninyo ini.” 9 Dayon ginpalakat sila ni Josue, kag nagpanago sila sa nakatundan dampi sang Ai, sa tunga-tunga sang Ai kag Betel. Kag sila ni Josue iya nagpabilin sa kampo sadto nga gab-i.
10 Pagkasunod nga adlaw, aga pa gid nga gintipon ni Josue ang iya mga tinawo. Ginpangunahan niya kag sang mga pangulo sang Israel ang mga tawo sa ila nga pagkadto sa Ai. 11 Nakaabot sila sa lugar nga nagaatubang sa banwa, sa aminhan sini, kag didto nagpatindog sila sang mga tolda. May pulopatag nga nagaulot sa ila kag sa Ai. 12 Nakapadala na nga daan si Josue sang 5,000 ka soldado sa pag-ambus sang banwa sa nakatundan dampi sini, sa tunga-tunga sang Ai kag Betel. 13 Gani amo ini ang pagkaplastar sang mga soldado: ang iban nga mga soldado ara sa aminhan sang banwa, kag ang iban pa gid ara sa nakatundan sini.
Sadto nga gab-i nagkadto sila ni Josue sa kapatagan. 14 Sang makita sang hari sang Ai sila ni Josue, nagdali-dali siya guwa kag ang iya mga tinawo sa banwa aga pa, kag nagkadto sa lugar nga nagaatubang sa Kapatagan sang Jordan[a] sa pagpakig-away sa Israel. Wala sila nakahibalo nga may magsalakay sa ila halin sa likod sang banwa. 15 Si Josue kag ang iya mga tinawo nagpakuno-kuno nga napierdi sila kag nagpulopalagyo pakadto sa kamingawan. 16 Gani ginlagas sila sang tanan nga kalalakihan sang Ai hasta nga nag-amat-amat sila palayo sa banwa. 17 Tanan nga mga lalaki sa Ai, pati sa Betel, naglagas sa mga Israelinhon, gani wala sing may nabilin nga manugdepensa sa banwa.
18 Nagsiling ang Ginoo kay Josue, “Itudlo ang imo bangkaw sa Ai kag ihatag ko ini sa inyo.” Gani gintudlo ni Josue ang iya bangkaw sa Ai. 19 Pagkahimo niya sini, nagguluwa dayon ang mga tinawo niya nga nagakibon sa banwa. Ginsulod nila kag gin-agaw ang banwa kag gindali-dali sunog. 20 Sang magbalikid ang mga taga-Ai, nakita nila nga nagatub-ok ang aso halin sa banwa. Wala na sila sing may madalaganan, kay gulpi lang sila nga gin-atubang sang mga Israelinhon nga ginalagas nila sa kamingawan. 21 Kay sang pagkakita ni Josue kag sang iya mga tinawo nga nakasulod na sa banwa ang ila mga kaupod kag ginasunog na nila ini, nagliso sila kag ginsalakay ang mga taga-Ai. 22 Nagsalakay man ang mga Israelinhon nga nagsulod sa banwa, gani natung-an ang mga taga-Ai. Ginpatay sila tanan; wala sing may nakapalagyo ukon may nabilin nga buhi sa ila, 23 luwas lang sa ila hari. Ginbihag siya kag gindala kay Josue.
24 Sang maubos nila pamatay ang tanan nga taga-Ai nga naglagas sa ila sa mga uma kag kamingawan, nagbalik sila sa banwa kag ginpamatay man ang tanan nga nabilin didto. 25 Sadto nga adlaw, napatay ang tanan nga pumuluyo sang Ai—12,000 tanan, lalaki kag babayi. 26 Wala mag-untat si Josue sa pag-untay sang bangkaw hasta nga nalaglag niya sing bug-os[b] ang tanan nga taga-Ai. 27 Ginpanguha sang mga Israelinhon ang mga kasapatan kag mga pagkabutang sa banwa, suno sa ginsiling sang Ginoo kay Josue. 28 Pagkatapos ginpasunog ni Josue ang bug-os nga Ai, kag wala na ini mapatindog liwat. Hasta subong wala na sing may nagaestar didto. 29 Ginpabitay ni Josue ang hari sa kahoy kag ginpabay-an didto hasta maghapon. Pagsalop sang adlaw, ginpakuha niya ang bangkay kag ginpahaboy sa guwa sang puwertahan sang banwa. Gintampukan nila ini sang mga bato, kag hasta subong makita pa ini nga mga bato.
Ginbasa ang Kasuguan sa Bukid sang Ebal
30 Karon, nagpahimo si Josue sang halaran sa Bukid sang Ebal para sa Ginoo, ang Dios sang Israel. 31 Ginpahimo niya ini suno sa sugo ni Moises, nga alagad sang Ginoo, sa mga Israelinhon. Ini nga sugo nasulat sa Libro sang Kasuguan ni Moises, kag amo ini ang ginasiling didto: “Maghimo ka sang halaran nga bato nga wala masapsapi ukon makortihan sang gamit nga salsalon.” Sa ibabaw sang halaran naghalad sila sa Ginoo sang mga halad nga ginasunog kag mga halad nga para sa maayo nga relasyon. 32 Sa atubangan sang mga Israelinhon, ginkopya ni Josue sa mga bato[c] ang kasuguan nga ginsulat ni Moises. 33 Ang tanan nga Israelinhon, upod sang ila mga pangulo, mga opisyal, kag mga manughukom, pati ang mga indi Israelinhon nga nagaestar upod sa ila, nagtindog sa duha ka grupo nga nagaatubangay. Ang isa ka grupo nagatalikod sa Bukid sang Gerizim kag ang isa pa gid nagatalikod sa Bukid sang Ebal. Sa ila tunga nagatindog ang mga pari nga mga kaliwat ni Levi nga nagatuwang sang Kahon sang Kasugtanan sang Ginoo. Si Moises nga alagad sang Ginoo nagsugo sa ila sadto anay sa paghimo sini sa tion nga batunon nila ang bendisyon.
34 Ginbasa dayon ni Josue ang Libro sang Kasuguan, pati ang pagpakamaayo kag ang pagpakamalaot nga nasulat diri. 35 Isa-isa nga ginbasa ni Josue ang mga sugo ni Moises sa atubangan sang bug-os nga katilingban sang Israel, lakip na ang mga babayi, kabataan, kag mga indi Israelinhon nga nagaestar upod sa ila.
约书亚记 8
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约书亚记 8
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约书亚再攻艾城
8 耶和华对约书亚说：“你不要惧怕，也不要惊慌，你只管带领所有能作战的人，起来上艾城去；你看，我已经把艾城的王和他的人民、城市、土地都交在你手里了。 2 你怎样对待耶利哥和耶利哥的王，也要照样对待艾城和艾城的王；只是城中的战利品和牲畜，你们可以据为己有；你要在城后面设下攻城的伏兵。”
3 于是，约书亚和所有能作战的人都起来上艾城去；约书亚选了三万英勇的战士，趁夜派他们出去， 4 吩咐他们说：“你们注意，要在城后面埋伏攻城；不可离城太远，人人都要作好准备。 5 我和所有与我一起的人，要向城推进。城里的人像前一次出来攻击我们的时候，我们就在他们面前逃跑； 6 他们必定出来追赶我们，我们就把他们引出城来，因为他们必定说：‘这些人像前一次一样在我们面前逃跑了。’所以我们要在他们面前逃跑。 7 那时你们就要从埋伏的地方起来，占领那城，因为耶和华你们的 神必把城交在你们的手里。 8 你们占领了城以后，就要放火烧城；要照着耶和华的话行事；你们要谨慎，我已经吩咐你们了。” 9 约书亚差派他们去了，他们就上到埋伏的地方去，住在伯特利和艾城的中间，就是在艾城的西边。那一夜，约书亚却在人民中间住宿。
10 约书亚清早起来，召集人民上艾城去，他和以色列的长老走在人民的前面。 11 所有与他在一起的战士都上去，迫近艾城，在城的北面安营；在约书亚和艾城中间有一个山谷， 12 约书亚挑了大约五千人，要他们埋伏在伯特利和艾城中间，就是艾城的西面。 13 于是他们把众民，就是在城北的全军和在城西的伏兵都布置好了。那一夜，约书亚走进了山谷之中。 14 艾城的王看见了这情形，就和艾城的人急忙在清早起来，按着亚拉巴前面所约定之处出到亚拉巴，要与以色列人交战；王却不知道在城后面有伏兵要攻击他。 15 约书亚和以色列人在他们面前装败，沿着通往旷野的路逃跑。 16 城里的众民都被召集，去追赶他们；艾城的人追赶约书亚的时候，就都被诱离城。 17 艾城和伯特利城没有留下一个人不出来追赶以色列人；他们撇下了敞开的城门，去追赶以色列人。
攻陷艾城
18 耶和华对约书亚说：“你向着艾城伸出你手中的短枪，因为我要把城交在你手里。”约书亚就向着艾城伸出他手里的短枪。 19 他一伸手，伏兵就从埋伏的地方急忙起来，冲进城去，把城夺取，并连忙放火烧城。 20 艾城的人转身观看，看见城里浓烟冲天，就全身乏力，不能逃跑；往旷野逃跑的以色列人就转过来攻击追赶他们的人。 21 约书亚和以色列人看见伏兵已经夺取了城，又看见城中浓烟上升，就转回，击杀艾城的人。 22 伏兵也出城攻击艾城的人；艾城的人就被困在以色列人中间，前后受敌；于是以色列人把他们击杀，没有留下一个，也没有一个逃脱。 23 他们活捉了艾城的王，把他解到约书亚那里。
24 以色列人在田间、在旷野，杀尽了所有追赶他们的艾城的居民，艾城的人全部倒在刀下，直到完全消灭；接着，以色列众人回到艾城，用刀击杀了城中的人。 25 那一天被杀的人，连男带女，共有一万二千人，就是艾城所有的人。 26 约书亚没有收回伸出短枪的手，直到把艾城的居民都消灭为止。 27 只有那城里的牲畜和战利品，以色列人照着耶和华吩咐约书亚的话，都据为己有。 28 约书亚烧了艾城，使城永远成为废堆，一片荒凉，直到今日。 29 他又把艾城的王悬在树上，直到黄昏的时候；日落的时候，约书亚吩咐人把尸体从树上拿下来，丢在城门口那里，又在尸体上堆起了一大堆石头，这堆石头一直存到今日。
以巴路山上筑坛宣读律法
30 那时，约书亚在以巴路山上，为耶和华以色列的 神筑了一座祭坛， 31 是照着耶和华的仆人摩西吩咐以色列人的，照着摩西律法书上所写的，用未经过铁器打凿的整块石块筑成的一座祭坛；在这祭坛之上，众人向耶和华献燔祭，也献平安祭。 32 约书亚在那里，当着以色列人面前，把摩西所写的摩西律法抄写在石头上。 33 全体以色列人和他们的长老、官长，以及审判官，都站在约柜的两旁，在抬耶和华约柜的利未支派的祭司前面；无论是寄居的，或是本地人，一半对着基利心山，一半对着以巴路山；正如耶和华的仆人摩西以前所吩咐的，好为以色列民祝福。 34 然后，约书亚宣读律法上一切祝福和咒诅的话，全都照着律法书上所写的一切。 35 摩西吩咐的一切话，约书亚在以色列全体会众和妇女、小孩，以及在他们中间来往的寄居者面前，没有一句不向他们宣读出来的。
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