Yosiua 8
1 Hina Gode da Yosiuama amane sia: i, “Dia dadi gagui dunu huluane oule asili, A:iai diasuga heda: ma. Mae da: i dioma amola mae beda: ma. Na da fidimuba: le, di da A: iai hina bagade hasalimu. Di da ea dunu fi, ea moilai bai bagade amola ea soge huluane lamu.
Then Yahweh said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid or discouraged [because of what happened at] Ai. Lead all of your soldiers and go there again. I will help you to defeat the king of Ai, his people, and his city, and [enable you to take] his land.
2 Dilia da Yeligou amola Yeligou hina bagadema hamoi amo defele A: iai amola ea hina bagadema defele hamoma. Be wali, liligi amola ohe fi amo ganodini diala amo dilisu lamu. Be ilia fofogadigima: ne, ilia fa: no bega: doagala: musa: masa.
Your army will do to the people of Ai and their king like what you did to the people of Jericho and their king. But this time [I will permit you to] take all their possessions and keep them for yourselves. But first, tell some of your soldiers to [hide behind] the city [and] prepare to suddenly attack it.”
3 Amaiba: le, Yosiua amola ea dadi gagui dunu da A: iai diasu doagala: musa: momogi. E da ea dadi gagui dunu amo 30,000 ilegele, gasi ganodini gadili asunasi.
So Joshua led all his army toward Ai. He chose 30,000 of his best fighters/warriors and prepared to send them out during the night.
4 E da ilima amane sia: i, “Dilia A: iai diasu na: iyado bega: fonobahadi gadenenewane wamoaligima. Ilima doagala: musa: momagema.
He said to them, “Listen carefully. Some of you must hide on the other side of the city. Do not go far from the city. Just be ready [to attack].
5 Na amola na dunu da moilai bai bagadega doagala: musa: misunu. A: iai dunu da ninima gegemusa: masea, ninia da musa: hamoi defele ogogole sinidigili iliba: le hobeamu.
I and the men who are with me will march toward the city [in the morning]. The men in the city will come out to fight us, like they did before. Then we will turn around and start to run away from them.
6 Ilia da ninima fa: no bobogemu amola ninia da ili moilai bai bagade fisima: ne bisili hobeamu. Ninia da musa: hamoi defele ilima hobealala, amo ilia da dawa: mu.
They will think that we are running away from them like we did before. So they will chase us away from the city. While we are running away,
7 Amasea, dilia da dilia wamoaligi sogebi fisili, moilai bai bagadega doagala: le lamu. Hina Gode da amo dilima imunu.
[those of you who are hiding come out and] rush into the city and capture it. Yahweh your God will enable you to conquer it.
8 Dilia moilai bai bagade huluane lai dagosea, amo Hina Gode Ea hamoma: ne sia: i defele, laluga gobesima. Na da dilima sia: i dagoi.”
After you capture the city, burn it. Do what Yahweh has commanded us to do. Those are the orders I am giving to you.”
9 Amalalu, Yosiua da amo dunu gadili asunasili, ilia da ilia wamoaligi sogebiga asili, ouesalu. Amo sogebi da A: iai amoga eso dabe la: idi A: iai amola Bedele amoga dogoa dialu. Yosiua da amo gasia abula diasu gilisisuga esalu.
Then Joshua [prepared to] send some of them to [hide and] wait between Ai and Bethel, which was west of Ai. But Joshua stayed with his other soldiers that night.
10 Hahabedafa, Yosiua da wa: legadole, ea dadi gagui dunu gilisi. Amalalu, e amola Isala: ili ouligisu dunu da dadi gagui dunu bisili, A:iai moilai bai bagadega oule asi.
Early the next morning, Joshua gathered his soldiers together. Then he and the other Israeli leaders led them up to Ai.
11 Dadi gagui dunu da A: iai moilai bai bagade logo holei bagade amoga doaga: musa: asili, ilia da gano la: idi amoga ha wa: i fisu gagui. Ilia da agologa esalu amola A: iai da agolo eno amoga dialu. Dogoa da fago soge ba: i.
They all set up their tents close to Ai, just to the north of the city, where all the people of the city could see them. There was a valley between them and the city.
12 Yosiua da5000 dunu agoane lale, ilia da A: iai ea eso dabe la: idi (A: iai amola Bedele dogoa) amoga wamoaligi.
Then Joshua chose about 5,000 men and told them to go and hide just west of the city, between Ai and Bethel.
13 Dadi gagui da A: iai moilai bai bagadega doagala: musa: esalu. Bisili ha wa: i fisu esalebe dunu da gano la: idi dialu amola eno dunu da eso dabe la: ididili wamoaligili esalu. Yosiua da amo gasia umiga esalu.
So those men did that. The main group of soldiers was north of the city, and the others were hiding west of the city. That night Joshua went down into the valley.
14 A: iai hina bagade dunu da Yosiua ea dunu ba: beba: le, hedolowane hamoi. E amola ea dunu huluane da Yodane umiga gadili asili, ilia da musa: sogebi Isala: ili dunuma gegei amoga bu gegemusa: dawa: i galu. Be Isala: ili dunu da ea baligiga doagala: musa: esalu, amo e da hame dawa: i galu.
When the king of Ai saw the Israeli army, he and his soldiers got up early the next morning and quickly went out of the city to fight them. They went to a place east of the city, but they did not know that some Israeli soldiers were hiding behind the city.
15 Yosiua amola ea dunu da ogogole A: iai dunuma hobeamusa: , hafoga: i sogega hehenai.
Joshua and the Israeli soldiers [who were with him] allowed the army of Ai to push them back. They ran toward the desert.
16 A: iai hina bagade da ea dunu huludafa Yosiua ea dunu sefasimusa: masa: ne sia: i. Ilia da hehenane, ilia moilai bai bagade da baligidu beba: loba da sedagawane ba: i.
The men in Ai were ordered to chase after Joshua and his men. So they left the city and started to pursue the Israelis.
17 A: iai dunu huluanedafa da Isala: ili dunu sefasi. A: iai moilai bai bagade logo da doasi dagoi amola gaga: su dunu hamedafa ba: i.
All the men of Ai and the men of Bethel pursued the Israeli army. They did not leave even one man in Ai to defend it. The [gates of the] city were left wide open.
18 Amalalu, Hina Gode da Yosiuama amane sia: i, “Dia goge agei amo A: iai moilai bai bagadega sogiagama. Na da amo moilai bai bagade dima imunu.” Yosiua da amo sia: i defele hamoi.
Then Yahweh said to Joshua, “[Lift up] your spear [and] point it toward Ai, because I am going to enable your soldiers to capture it!” So Joshua pointed [his spear] toward Ai.
19 E da ea lobo ligia gadole, Isala: ili dunu da ilia wamoaligisu hedolo fisili, moilai bai bagadega hehenane, lai dagoi. Ilia da hedolowane A: iai moilai bai bagade ulagimusa: lalu didi.
When the Israeli men who were hiding saw that, they rushed out from the places where they were hiding and ran into the city. They quickly captured it and set it on fire.
20 A: iai dunu da beba: loba, lalu mobi heda: lebe muagado doaga: i amo ba: i. Isala: ili dunu da hafoga: i sogega hehenai amo da sinidigili ilima doagala: musa: mabeba: le, ilia da hobeamu logo hame ba: i.
When the men of Ai looked back, they saw smoke rising from their city. But they could not escape, because the Israeli troops stopped running away.
21 Yosiua amola ea dunu da eno dunu da A: iai moilai bai bagade lale, laluga gobesi amo ba: beba: le, sinidigili, A:iai dunu fane legemusa: asi.
Joshua and his men saw that the men who had been hiding had captured the city and were burning it, and they saw the smoke rising. So they turned around and started to attack the men of Ai.
22 Isala: ili dunu A: iai moilai bai bagade ganodini esalu da amo gegesu fidimusa: misi. Amalalu, A:iai dunu da Isala: ili dunu amoma sisiga: i dagoi ba: i. A: iai dunu afae da hame hobea: i, huluane bogogia: i dagoi ba: i.
Meanwhile, the soldiers who had captured the city came out [and attacked them from the rear]. So the men of Ai were caught between the two groups of Israeli soldiers. None of the men of Ai escaped. The Israelis fought until they killed all of them. Only the king of Ai was still alive.
23 Be A: iai hina bagade da hame bogoi. Isala: ili dunu da amo hina bagade lale, afugili, Yosiuama hiouginana asi.
Then they seized the king of Ai and brought him to Joshua.
24 Isala: ili dunu da A: iai dunu huluane amo wadela: i soge amo ganodini medole legei dagoi. Amalalu, ilia da sinidigili, A:iai moilai bai bagade ganodini esalebe dunu, uda amola mano huluane medole legei.
While they were fighting, the Israeli army pursued the men of Ai into the fields and into the desert, and killed all of them. Then they went to Ai and killed everyone who was there.
They killed 12,000 men and women.
26 Yosiua da ea goge agei amo A: iai moilai bai bagadega sogiagai mae fisili, dunu huluanedafa da medole legei dagoiba: le fawane yolesi. A: iai ganodini esalebe huluane da bogogia: i. Idi da dunu 12,000 agoane amola uda.
Joshua continued to point his spear [LIT] toward Ai, until all the people in Ai had been killed.
27 Hina Gode da Yosiuama sia: i defele, Isala: ili dunu ilisu da ohe fi amola liligi amo moilai bai bagade ganodini galu gagulaligimusa: lai.
The Israeli soldiers took for themselves the animals and the other things that had belonged to the people of Ai, just like Yahweh had told Joshua that they should do.
28 Yosiua da A: iai moilai bai bagade laluga gobesi amola wadela: lesi dagoi. Wali eso, amo moilai bai bagade da amaiwane diala.
Joshua and his soldiers burned Ai city and caused it to become a pile of ruins. It is still like that today.
29 E da A: iai hina bagade ifaga hegoa: nesili, ea da: i hodo daeya doaga: ma: ne yolesi. Eso dabe amoga, e da amo hina bagade ea da: i hodo fadegama: ne sia: i. Amo lale, ilia da moilai bai bagade holeiga gisalugala: i. Ilia da ea da: i hodo amo igi ligisisu bagadega dedeboi. Amo igi ligisisu da wali eso amogawi diala.
Joshua hanged the king of Ai on a tree and left his corpse hanging there until the evening. At sunset Joshua told his men to take the king’s corpse down from the tree and to throw it on the ground at the city gate. [After they did that], they piled a lot of rocks on top of the corpse, and that pile of rocks is still there.
30 Amasea, Yosiua da Iba: le Goumia, Isala: ili fi ilia Hina Godema oloda hamoi.
Joshua [told his men to] build on Ebal Mountain an altar for Yahweh, the God [who is worshiped by] the Israeli people.
31 Amo oloda, e da Mousese, Hina Gode Ea hawa: hamosu dunu amo ea olelei defele gagui. Mousese hamoma: ne sia: i defele, “oloda igiga hamoi be amo igi da gobihei o goahei amoga hame hedofai ba: mu.” Amo oloda da: iya, ilia da Hina Godema gobele salasu gobesi amola ilia da Hahawane Gilisili Olofole Iasu Godema i.
They built it just like Moses, the man who served God [well], had written previously in the laws [that God had given to him]. They made it from stones that had not been cut using iron tools. The Israelis then offered sacrifices to Yahweh that were burned completely on the altar. They also offered sacrifices to restore fellowship with Yahweh.
32 Amogawi, Isala: ili dunu huluane ba: lalu, Yosiua da sema amo Mousese da dedei, amo igi gasui enoga bu dedei.
As the Israelis watched, Joshua wrote on stones the laws that [Yahweh had given] to Moses previously.
33 Isala: ili dunu, ilia hina dunu, ouligisu dunu, ilia fofada: su dunu amola ilia gilisisu ganodini esalebe ga fi dunu da Hina Gode Ea Gousa: su Sema Gagili la: ididili amola la: ididili lelu. Ilia da gobele salasu dunu amo da Gode Ea Gousa: su Sema Gagili gagui, amo ilia odagia ba: sa lelu. Isala: ili dunu dogoa mogili, la: idi da Gelesime Goumi ilia baligiga ba: i, la: idi da Iba: le Goumi ilia baligiga ba: i. Ilia da Gode Ea hahawane dogolegele fidisu lama: ne, Hina Gode Ea hawa: hamosu dunu Mousese da ili amo hou hamoma: ne musa: sia: i dagoi.
The Israeli leaders, the officials, the judges, and other Israelis were there, standing nearby. Many people who were not Israelis were also there. Half of the people stood [on one side of the valley] below Ebal Mountain, and the other half of the people stood [on the other side of the valley] below Gerizim Mountain. The sacred chest was [in the valley] between the two groups. That was what Moses had previously commanded that the people should do when [Yahweh was about to] bless them.
34 Amalalu, Yosiua da dunu huluane nabima: ne, Sema huluane idi dagoi. E da hahawane dogolegele fidisu sia: huluane amola gagabusu aligima: ne sia: huluane Sema buga ganodini dedei amo defele idi.
Then Joshua read [to the people] all that [Moses] had written previously. That included what Yahweh had taught them and the ways [that he promised] to bless them [if they obeyed his commands], or to curse them [if they disobeyed them].
35 Yosiua da Mousese ea hamoma: ne sia: i amo huluanedafa dunu gilisisu (amo gilisisu ganodini, dunu, uda, mano amola ga fi dunu huluane esalebe ba: i) ilima idi dagoi.
All the Israelis gathered together [to listen]—the men, the women, and the children. The (foreigners/people who were not Israelis) who were living among them also listened, while Joshua read all the commands that Moses had written.
