約書亞記 8
1 以後上主對若蘇厄說：「你不要害怕! 不要膽怯，只管率領所有的軍民，前去進攻哈依城。看，我已將哈依王，百姓、城池和土地，都交在你手中。
And the Lord said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou discouraged: take with thee all the people of war, and arise, go up to 'Ai; see, I have given into thy hand the king of 'Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land.
2 你要對待哈依城和哈依王，如同對待耶利哥和耶利哥王一樣；只有城中的戰利品和牲畜，你們可據為己有。你應在城後面，設下攻城的伏兵。」
And thou shalt do to 'Ai and to its king as thou hast done unto Jericho and its king; only its spoil and its cattle shall ye take for booty unto yourselves; but lay thee an ambush for the city in its rear.
3 若蘇厄於是與所有的軍兵前去進攻哈依城。若蘇厄選了三萬精兵，派他們黑夜出發，
So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against 'Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valor, and sent them away by night.
4 吩咐他們說：「你們要注意，在城那邊，即在城後面埋伏下，不可離城太遠，個個都要戒備。
And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in wait against the city, in the rear of the city; go not very far from the city; and be ye all ready;
5 我和我率領的人，向城推進；當他們像前次一樣出來迎擊我們時，我們就由他們前面逃走。
And I, and all the people that are with me, will approach unto the city; and it shall come to pass that, when they come out against us, as at the first time, we will flee before them;
6 他們一定出來追趕我們。我們將他們誘出城來，他們必說：這些像前次一樣，又由我們面前逃走了。我們就由他們前面逃走。
And they will come out after us, till we have drawn them from the city; for they will say, They flee from us as at the first time: and we will flee before them.
7 那時你們應從埋伏的地方出來，佔領城市，上主你們的天主必將這城交在你們手中。
And then shall ye rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city; and the Lord your God will deliver it in into your hand.
8 你們一佔領了城，就放火焚燒，全照上主的話執行。你們應注意我吩咐你們的事。」
And it shall be, that as soon as ye have seized the city, ye shall set the city on fire; according to the word of the Lord shall ye do: see, I have commanded you.
9 若蘇厄就打發他們去了。他們便開到埋伏的地方，停在貝特耳和哈依之間，在哈依西面。那中夜若蘇厄便在百姓中過了夜。
And Joshua sent them off: and they went to lie in ambush, and remained between Beth-el and 'Ai, on the west side of 'Ai; but Joshua lodged that night among the people.
10 若蘇厄清早起來，點齊軍民；然後與與以色列的長老，在軍人前頭向哈依城進發。
And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and numbered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people, toward 'Ai.
11 跟隨他的所有軍人也都一齊進發，迫近城下，在哈依北面紮了營。原來在他和哈依中間隔著一個山谷。
And all the people of war that were with him went up, and drew nigh, and came opposite the city, and encamped on the north side of 'Ai; and the valley was between them and 'Ai.
12 若蘇厄調了約五千人，令他們埋伏在貝特耳和哈依之間，即在哈依西面。
And he took about five thousand men, and set them as an ambush between Beth-el and 'Ai, on the west side of 'Ai.
13 這樣城北的軍民和城西的伏兵，都嚴陣以待。當夜若蘇厄就在谷中過了夜。
And the people, all the camp that was on the north of the city, and its ambush on the west of the city got ready; and Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.
14 哈依王一見這情形，便和全城的人急忙起來，到了面對阿拉巴的山坡，要和以色列人交戰，但他沒有料到城後面還有伏兵。
And it came to pass, when the king of 'Ai saw this, the men of the city hastened and rose up early, and went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the time appointed, before the plain; but he knew not that there was an ambush against him in the rear of the city.
15 若蘇厄和以色列人在他們面前詐敗，沿著往曠野的路奔逃，
And Joshua and Israel feigned themselves beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.
16 城中的人盡被徵調，在後追趕。當他們若蘇厄時，都被誘出城來；
And all the people that were in 'Ai were called together to pursue after them; and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.
17 在哈依和貝特耳沒有留下一個人不出來追趕以色列人的。他們拋下敞開的城門，都去追趕以色列人。
And there was not a man left in 'Ai or Beth-el, that went not out after Israel; and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.
18 這時上主對若蘇厄說：「將你手中的短劍指向哈依城，因為我即將這城交於你手中。」若蘇厄便將手中的短指向哈依城。
And the Lord said unto Joshua, Stretch out the spear that is in thy hand toward 'Ai; for into thy hand will I give it. And Joshua stretched out the spear which was in his hand toward the city.
19 他一伸手，伏兵即由他們埋伏的地方奮起，衝向城中，將城佔領，急速放火焚燒。
And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he stretched out his hand; and they entered into the city, and took possession of it, and hastened and set the city on fire.
20 哈依人回頭，看見城內濃煙沖天，都沒有了往前後逃跑的力量，因為此時向曠野奔逃的以色列人，忽然轉過身來還擊追趕自己的哈依人。
And the men of 'Ai turned [and looked] behind them, and they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven; and they had no power to flee this way or that way; and the people that had fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.
21 若蘇厄和全以色列見伏兵已奪了城，城內煙氣上騰，便轉身回來擊殺哈依人。
For when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had seized the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended: they turned back, and smote the men of 'Ai.
22 伏兵也由城內出來夾擊，哈依人便包圍在以色列人中間，前後受敵；以色列人將他們完全殺盡，沒有留下一個，也沒有逃走一個。
And the others issued out of the city against them; so that the Israelites had them in the middle, some on this side, and some on that side; and they smote them, until there was not left of them one that remained or escaped.
23 他們生摛了哈依王，把他解到若蘇厄面前。
And the king of 'Ai they caught alive, and brought him to Joshua.
24 以色列人在曠野的平原上，殺盡了追趕自己的一切哈依居民，哈依人全都死於刀下；以後，全以色列人又回到哈依，殺盡城中的人。
And it came to pass, that, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of 'Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they had pursued them, and when they were all fallen by the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, All the Israelites returned unto 'Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.
25 那天被殺的人，男女共計一萬二千，都是哈依人。
And [the number of] all that fell in that day, both of men and women, was twelve thousand, all the people of 'Ai.
26 若蘇厄在沒有殺盡哈依的一切居民前，一直沒有收回自己手中所持的短劍。
And Joshua drew not back his hand, wherewith he had stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of 'Ai.
27 惟有城中的牲畜和財物，以色列人依照上主吩咐若蘇厄的話，據為己有。
Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took as booty unto themselves, according to the word of the Lord which he had commanded Joshua.
28 然後若蘇厄焚毀哈依城，使之永遠成為廢墟，時至今日，仍是一片荒涼；
And Joshua burnt 'Ai, and made it a ruinous heap of desolation for ever, even unto this day,
29 又將哈依王懸在樹上，直到黃昏；日落時，若蘇厄令人將他的死屍從樹上卸下，丟在城門口，在他身上又 堆石頭，直存到今日。
And the king of 'Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide; and at the going down of the sun, Joshua commanded, and they took his carcass down from the tree and cast it at the entrance of the city gate, and they raised over him a great heap of stones, [which is] even unto this day.
30 那時，若蘇厄在厄巴耳山，為上主以色列的天主，築了一座祭壇；
Then did Joshua build an altar unto the Lord, the God of Israel on mount 'Ebal,
31 全照上主的僕人梅瑟向以色列子民所吩咐的，全照梅瑟法律書上所記載的，用沒有用過的整塊石頭，築了一座祭壇，在上面向上主獻了全燔祭，祭殺了和平祭犧牲。
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, an altar of whole stones, over which no one had lifted up any iron tool; and they offered thereon burnt-offerings unto the Lord, and sacrificed peace-offerings.
32 若蘇厄又在那裏將梅瑟當著以色列子民的面所寫的法律，刻在石頭上。
And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.
33 以色列全體民眾和他們的長老、領袖、判官，連僑居的人和土生的人，一半向著革黎斤山，一半向著厄巴耳山，正如上主的僕人梅瑟，當初為祝福以色列百姓所命令的。
And all Israel, and their elders, and the officers, and their judges, stood on this side and on that side of the ark, opposite the priests the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord, the stranger no less than the native born: half of them turned toward mount Gerizzim, and the other half of them turned toward mount 'Ebal; as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded, to bless the people of Israel at first.
34 以後若蘇厄將法律上祝福和詛咒的一切話，全照法律書上所記載的，宣讀了一遍。
And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, all, just as it is written in the book of the law.
35 凡梅瑟所吩咐的一切話，若蘇厄在以色列全會眾前，連婦孺和寄居在他們中的外僑在內，沒有一句不向他們宣讀。
There was not a word of all that Moses had commanded, which Joshua did not read before all the congregation of Israel, with the women, and the little ones, and the stranger that walked in the midst of them.
