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。
Then said Yahweh unto Joshua—Do not fear nor be dismayed, take with thee all the army, 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。」
so shalt thou do unto Ai and to her king, as thou didst unto Jericho unto her king, save only, the spoil thereof and the cattle thereof, shall ye take as your own prey, —set thee an ambush for the city, behind it.
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 to Ai, —and Joshua chose out thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valour, and sent them forth 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—See! ye, shall be lying in ambush against the city, behind the city, do not go very far from the city, —so shall ye all be 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。
But, I, and all the people who are with me, will draw near unto the city, —and it shall be, when they come out to meet us, as at the first, then will we 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。
so will they come out after us, until we have drawn them away from the city, for they will say, Fleeing before us, as at the first! therefore will we 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。
Then, ye, shall rise up out of the ambush, and take possession of the city, —and Yahweh your God will deliver it 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, when ye have seized the city, then shall ye burn the city with fire, according to the word of Yahweh, 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。
So Joshua sent them forth, and they went into ambush, and abode between Bethel and Ai, on the west of Ai, —but Joshua lodged that night in the midst of 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 mustered the people, —and went up—he and the elders of Israel, before the people, to 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 who were with him, went up, and drew near, and came in, right before the city, —and pitched on the north of Ai, with, a valley, 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 in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west of the city.
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, when the people had set all the host that was on the north of the city, with the rear thereof on the west of the city, then went Joshua, during the 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 it, that they hasted, and rose up early, and the men of the city came out to meet Israel for battle, he and all his people, at an appointed time, before the waste plain, —he not knowing that there was an ambush lying in wait for him, behind 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，
So then Joshua and all Israel suffered themselves to be smitten 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 who were in the city were called out to pursue them, —and they pursued Joshua, and so were drawn out 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 remained not a man, in Ai or Bethel, who had not gone out after Israel, —and they left the city, open, and pursued 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。
Then said Yahweh unto Joshua—Stretch out with the javelin which is in thy hand, towards Ai, for, into thy hand, will I deliver it. So Joshua stretched out with the javelin which was in his hand, towards 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, rose up quickly, out of their place, and ran, when he stretched out his hand, and entered the city, and captured it, —and hasted, 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 behind them, and looked, and lo! the smoke of the city had risen up towards the heavens, and there was in them no strength, to flee this way or that way, —moreover, the people that were fleeing 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。
Yea, when, Joshua and all Israel, saw that the ambush had captured the city, and that the smoke of the city had risen up, then returned they, 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, came forth out of the city to meet them, so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side, —and they smote them, until there was left them none to remain or to escape.
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 near unto 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, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness whither they had pursued them, and all of them had fallen by the edge of the sword until they were consumed, then all Israel returned to 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 so it was, that all who fell that day, both of men and of women, were twelve thousand, —all 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。
Now, Joshua, drew not back his hand which he had stretched out with the javelin, —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。
Nevertheless, the cattle and the spoil of that city, Israel took as their own prey, —according to the word of Yahweh, which he 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；
So then Joshua burned Ai, —and made of it an age-abiding heap—a desolation, [as it remaineth] until 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, hanged he on a tree until eventide, —but, at the going in of the sun, Joshua gave command and they took down his dead body from the tree, and cast it in at the opening of the gate of the city, and raised up over it a great heap of stones—[which remaineth] until 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；
Than, built Joshua, an altar, unto Yahweh, God of Israel, —in 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 Yahweh, commanded the sons of Israel, as it is written in the scroll of the law of Moses, an altar of whole stones, whereon had not been wielded any tool of iron, —and they caused to go up thereon, ascending-sacrifices unto Yahweh, 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。
Then wrote he there, upon the stones, a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote, in the presence of the sons 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 officers, and their judges, were standing on this side and on that side of the ark, before the priests the Levites, who were bearing the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, as well the sojourner as the home-born, half of them over against Mount Gerizim, and half of them over against Mount Ebal, —as Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded to bless the sons of Israel, first of all.
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, after that, read he all the words of the law, the blessing and the cursing, —according to all that was written in the scroll 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。
Them was not a word of all that Moses commanded, —which Joshua read not before all the convocation of Israel, with the women and the little ones, and the sojourner who was going on in their midst.
