Jošua 8
1 Tada reče Jahve Jošui: “Ne boj se i ne strahuj! Uzmi sa sobom sve ratnike, ustani i navali na Aj. Gle, predajem ti u ruke ajskoga kralja, njegov narod, grad i zemlju njegovu.
And Jehovah said to Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou dismayed. Take all the people of war with thee, 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 Učini s Ajem i s njegovim kraljem kao što si učinio s Jerihonom i njegovim kraljem; ali vam je slobodno da prigrabite plijen iz njega i njegovu stoku. Postavi gradu zasjedu s leđa.”
And thou shall do to Ai and its king as thou did to Jericho and its king. Only the spoil of it, and the cattle of it, ye shall take for a prey to yourselves. Set thee an ambush for the city behind it.
3 Spremi se Jošua da navali na Aj i svi ratnici s njime. Izabrao je trideset tisuća junaka i poslao ih noću;
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 valor, and sent them forth by night.
4 dade im zapovijed: “Pazite! Poći ćete u zasjedu gradu s leđa, ali da ne budete predaleko od grada i budite svi spremni.
And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city. Go not very far from the city, but be ye all ready,
5 A ja i sav narod koji me prati primaknut ćemo se gradu; i kada ljudi iz Aja izađu pred nas, mi ćemo kao i prije pobjeći ispred njih.
and I, and all the people that are with me, will approach to the city. And it shall come to pass, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them.
6 Oni će onda navaliti za nama dok ih ne odvedemo od grada jer će misliti: 'Bježe ispred nas kao i prije.'
And they will come out after us, till we have drawn them away from the city, for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first. So we will flee before them.
7 Tada provalite iz zasjede i zauzmite grad: Jahve, Bog vaš, predat će vam ga u ruke.
And ye shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city, for Jehovah your God will deliver it into your hand.
8 Kad jednom osvojite grad, spalite ga ognjem. Učinite to po Jahvinoj zapovijedi. Pazite, to vam zapovjedih.”
And it shall be, when ye have seized upon the city, that ye shall set the city on fire. According to the word of Jehovah shall ye do. See, I have commanded you.
9 Jošua ih posla i oni odoše u zasjedu te se smjestiše između Betela i Aja, gradu sa zapada. A Jošua provede noć među narodom.
And Joshua sent them forth, and they went to the ambushment, and abode between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai, but Joshua lodged that night among the people.
10 Uranivši, Jošua ujutro prebroja narod i pođe sa starješinama Izraelovim pred narodom na Aj.
And Joshua arose up early in the morning, and mustered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.
11 Svi ratnici krenu s njim i kad se primaknu gradu, utabore se Aju sa sjevera, tako da je između njih i mjesta bila ravnica.
And all the people, even the men of war who were with him, went up, and drew near, and came before the city, and encamped on the north side of Ai. Now there was a valley between him and Ai.
12 Jošua uze oko pet tisuća ljudi i namjesti zasjedu između Betela i Aja, gradu sa zapadne strane.
And he took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.
13 A narod se smjesti u tabor, koji je bio na sjeveru grada, dok je njegova zalaznica bila na zapadu grada. Jošua opet provede noć usred naroda.
So they set the people, even all the army that was on the north of the city, and their ambushment that were on the west of the city, and Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.
14 Kad je sve to vidio ajski kralj, požuri se te izađe on i sav njegov narod niz obronak prema Arabi u boj protiv Izraela. A nisu ni slutili da je iza grada namještena zasjeda.
And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hastened and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the time appointed, before the Arabah, but he did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.
15 Tada Jošua i sav Izrael nagnu bježati kao da su ih pobijedili. I bježali su putem prema pustinji.
And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.
16 Ajani nato pozvaše sve iz grada i dadoše se za njima u potjeru te, goneći Jošuu, odvoje se od grada.
And all the people that were in the city were called together to pursue after them, and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.
17 I ne ostade nitko u Aju i Betelu da nije pošao za Izraelcima. Ostavili su grad otvoren i gonili Izraelce.
And there was not a man left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel. And they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.
18 Tada reče Jahve Jošui: “Zamahni kopljem što ti je u ruci prema Aju: predajem ti ga u ruke.” I podiže Jošua koplje što mu bješe u ruci i zamahnu prema gradu.
And Jehovah said to Joshua, Stretch out the javelin that is in thy hand toward Ai, for I will give it into thy hand. And Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.
19 I tek što je podigao ruku, dignu se ljudi iz zasjede i potrče prema gradu, osvoje ga i umah ga ognjem zapale.
And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand, and entered into the city, and took it. And they hastened and set the city on fire.
20 Kada se oni iz Aja obazreše, imadoše što vidjeti: dim se dizao iz grada prema nebu. I nitko od njih nije imao kuda uteći ni tamo ni amo. Tada se narod koji je bježao prema pustinji okrenuo prema progoniteljima.
And when the men of Ai looked behind them, 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 who fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.
21 Vidjevši Jošua i sav Izrael da je zasjeda zauzela grad i da se diže dim iz grada, vrate se i udare na ljude iz Aja.
And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and killed the men of Ai.
22 Njihovi su im izašli u susret iz grada, i tako se oni iz Aja nađoše posred Izraelaca, opkoljeni i s jedne i s druge strane: biše pobijeni tako te ni jedan ne ostade živ niti uteče.
And the others came forth out of the city against them, so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side. And they smote them so that they let none of them remain or escape.
23 A kralja Aja uhvatiše živa i dovedoše ga Jošui.
And they took the king of Ai alive, and brought him to Joshua.
24 Kad su Izraelci pobili sve stanovnike Aja na otvorenu polju i u pustinji, kuda su ih gonili, i kada svi padoše od mača, vratiše se Izraelci u Aj i sasjekoše mačem sve što bješe u njemu.
And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they pursued them, and they were all fallen by the edge of the sword until they were consumed, that all Israel returned to Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.
25 Bilo je dvanaest tisuća onih koji su izginuli toga dana, ljudi i žena - sav Aj.
And all who fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.
26 Jošua nije spuštao ruke kojom bijaše zamahnuo kopljem sve dok nisu poubijani svi stanovnici Aja.
For Joshua did not draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
27 Samo stoku i plijen iz onoga grada razdijele među sobom Izraelci, kao što je Jahve zapovjedio Jošui.
Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for prey to themselves, according to the word of Jehovah which he commanded Joshua.
28 Jošua spali Aj i učini ga za sve vijeke ruševinom, pustim mjestom do danas.
So Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day.
29 Kralja ajskoga objesi o drvo do večeri. O zapadu sunčanom zapovjedi Jošua te skinuše truplo s drveta, baciše ga pred gradska vrata i nabacaše na nj veliku gomilu kamenja, koja stoji i danas.
And he hanged the king of Ai on a tree until the evening. And at the going down of the sun Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree, and cast it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised a great heap of stones on it, to this day.
30 Tada podiže Jošua žrtvenik Jahvi, Bogu Izraelovu, na gori Ebalu,
Then Joshua built an altar to Jehovah, the God of Israel, in mount Ebal,
31 kao što je zapovjedio Mojsije, sluga Jahvin, svim sinovima Izraelovim i kako je napisano u Mojsijevoj knjizi Zakona: žrtvenik od grubog kamena, neklesanog željezom. Na njemu bi prinesena Jahvi žrtva paljenica i pričesnica.
as Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded the sons of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of unhewn stones, upon which no man had lifted up any iron. And they offered burnt offerings on it to Jehovah, and sacrificed peace offerings.
32 Tu na kamenju Jošua prepiše Zakon Mojsijev koji bješe napisan za sinove Izraelove.
And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote, in the presence of the sons of Israel.
33 I sav Izrael i njegove starješine, glavari narodni i suci, došljaci i domaći, stanu s obje strane Kovčega prema svećenicima i levitima koji su nosili Kovčeg saveza Jahvina - polovina prema gori Gerizimu, a polovina prema gori Ebalu - da bi se blagoslovio puk Izraelov prema obredu koji zapovjedi Mojsije.
And all Israel, and their elders and officers, and their judges, stood on this side of the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, as well the sojourner as the home born, half of them in front of mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of Jehovah had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel.
34 Tada pročita Jošua svaku riječ Zakona, blagoslov i prokletstvo, sve kako je napisano u knjizi Zakona.
And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the book of the law.
35 Nije Jošua propustio nijedne Mojsijeve naredbe, nego ih je sve pročitao pred saborom svih Izraelaca, pred ženama, djecom i došljacima koji su išli s njima.
There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel, and the women, and the little ones, and the sojourners who were among them.
