Josua 8
1 Derefter sagde HERREN til Josua: »Frygt ikke og vær ikke bange! Tag alt Krigsfolket med dig, bryd op og drag mod Aj! Se, jeg giver Kongen af Aj og hans Folk, hans By og hans Land i din Haand!
The LORD said to Joshua, “Don’t be afraid, and don’t be dismayed. Take all the warriors with you, and arise, go up to Ai. Behold, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, with his people, his city, and his land.
2 Og du skal gøre det samme ved Aj og dets Konge, som du gjorde ved Jeriko og dets Konge; men Godset, I røver der, maa I selv beholde som Bytte, ligeledes Kvæget der. Læg Baghold vesten for Byen!«
You shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king, except you shall take its goods and its livestock for yourselves. Set an ambush for the city behind it.”
3 Derpaa brød Josua op og drog med alt Krigsfolket op mod Aj; og Josua udvalgte sig 30 000 tapre Mænd og sendte dem bort om Natten,
So Joshua arose, with all the warriors, to go up to Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and sent them out by night.
4 idet han bød dem: »Se, I skal lægge eder i Baghold vesten for Byen, ikke for langt fra den, og hold eder alle rede.
He commanded them, saying, “Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city. Don’t go very far from the city, but all of you be ready.
5 Jeg og alle de Folk, som er med mig, vil nærme os Byen, og naar de gør Udfald imod os ligesom forrige Gang, flygter vi for dem.
I and all the people who are with me will approach the city. It shall happen, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them.
6 Naar de saa følger efter os saa langt, at vi faar dem lokket bort fra Byen, idet de tænker, at vi flygter for dem ligesom forrige Gang,
They will come out after us until we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, ‘They flee before us, like the first time.’ So we will flee before them,
7 skal I bryde frem fra Bagholdet og tage Byen, thi HERREN eders Gud vil give den i eders Haand.
and you shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city; for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.
8 Og naar I har indtaget Byen, skal I stikke den i Brand. Saaledes skal I gøre, det er mit Bud til eder!«
It shall be, when you have seized the city, that you shall set the city on fire. You shall do this according to the LORD’s word. Behold, I have commanded you.”
9 Derpaa sendte Josua dem bort, og de gik hen og lagde sig i Baghold mellem Betel og Aj, vesten for Aj; men Josua blev den Nat iblandt Krigsfolket.
Joshua sent them out; and they went to set up the ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai on the west side of Ai; but Joshua stayed among the people that night.
10 Tidligt næste Morgen mønstrede Josua Folket, og sammen med Israels Ældste drog han op til Aj i Spidsen for Folket.
Joshua rose up early in the morning, mustered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.
11 Hele den Styrke, som var med ham, rykkede nærmere, til de havde Byen foran sig; og de lejrede sig norden for Aj med Dalen mellem sig og Aj.
All the people, even the men of war who were with him, went up and came near, and came before the city and encamped on the north side of Ai. Now there was a valley between him and Ai.
12 Derpaa tog han henved 5000 Mand og lagde dem i Baghold mellem Betel og Aj, vesten for Byen;
He took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.
13 og Krigerne blev bragt i Stilling, hele Hæren, som var norden for Byen, og den Del, som laa i Baghold vesten for Byen; men Josua begav sig om Natten ned i Dalen.
So they set the people, even all the army who was on the north of the city, and their ambush on the west of the city; and Joshua went that night into the middle of the valley.
14 Da nu Kongen af Aj saa det, skyndte Byens Mænd sig og rykkede tidligt om Morgenen ud til Kamp mod Israel, Kongen med hele sin Styrke, til Skraaningen, hvor Lavningen begynder, uden at vide af, at der var lagt Baghold imod ham vesten for Byen;
When the king of Ai saw it, they hurried 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 didn’t know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.
15 og da Josua og hele Israel lod sig slaa paa Flugt af dem og flygtede ad Ørkenen til,
Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.
16 blev alt Folket i Byen stævnet sammen til at forfølge dem, og de forfulgte Josua og lod sig lokke bort fra Byen;
All the people who were in the city were called together to pursue after them. They pursued Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.
17 ikke een Mand blev tilbage i Aj, men alle drog de ud for at forfølge Israel, og de lod Byen staa aaben, medens de forfulgte Israel.
There was not a man left in Ai or Bethel who didn’t go out after Israel. They left the city open, and pursued Israel.
18 Da sagde HERREN til Josua: »Ræk Spydet i din Haand ud mod Aj; thi jeg giver det i din Haand!« Og Josua rakte Spydet i sin Haand ud mod Byen.
The LORD said to Joshua, “Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand.” Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.
19 Og Bagholdet brød hurtigt op fra sin Plads og løb hen til Byen, da han rakte Haanden ud, indtog den og skyndte sig at stikke den i Brand.
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. They hurried and set the city on fire.
20 Da Mændene fra Aj vendte sig om og saa Røgen fra Byen stige op mod Himmelen, var de ude af Stand til at flygte til nogen af Siderne, idet Folket, som var flygtet ad Ørkenen til, vendte sig om mod deres Forfølgere.
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. The people who fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers.
21 Og da Josua og hele Israel saa, at Bagholdet havde indtaget Byen, og at Røgen fra Byen steg til Vejrs, vendte de om og slog Mændene fra Aj;
When Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned back and killed the men of Ai.
22 og da hine rykkede ud fra Byen imod dem, kom de midt ind imellem Israeliternes to Afdelinger, som huggede dem ned uden at lade en eneste af dem undkomme eller slippe bort.
The others came out of the city against them, so they were in the middle of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side. They struck them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.
23 Men Kongen af Aj fangede de levende og bragte ham til Josua.
They captured the king of Ai alive, and brought him to Joshua.
24 Da Israel nu havde hugget alle Ajs Indbyggere ned paa aaben Mark, paa Skraaningen, hvor de forfulgte dem, og de alle til sidste Mand var faldet for Sværdet, vendte hele Israel tilbage til Aj og slog det med Sværdet.
When Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they pursued them, and they had all fallen by the edge of the sword until they were consumed, all Israel returned to Ai and struck it with the edge of the sword.
25 Alle de, der faldt paa den Dag, Mænd og Kvinder, udgjorde 12 000, alle Indbyggerne i Aj.
All that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the people of Ai.
26 Og Josua trak ikke sin Haand med det udrakte Spyd tilbage, før han havde lagt Band paa alle Ajs Indbyggere.
For Joshua didn’t draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
27 Kun Kvæget og Godset, de røvede i denne By, beholdt Israeliterne som Bytte efter den Befaling, HERREN havde givet Josua.
Israel took for themselves only the livestock and the goods of that city, according to the LORD’s word which he commanded Joshua.
28 Og Josua stak Aj i Brand og gjorde den til en Ruinhob for bestandig, til den Ødemark, den er den Dag i Dag.
So Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day.
29 Men Kongen af Aj hængte han paa en Pæl og lod ham hænge til Aften; og da Solen gik ned, tog man paa Josuas Befaling hans Lig ned af Pælen og kastede det hen ved Indgangen til Byens Port. Og man opkastede over ham en stor Stendysse, som staar der den Dag i Dag.
He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until the evening. At sundown, Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised a great heap of stones on it that remains to this day.
30 Da byggede Josua HERREN, Israels Gud, et Alter paa Ebals Bjerg,
Then Joshua built an altar to the LORD, the God of Israel, on Mount Ebal,
31 som HERRENS Tjener Moses havde paalagt Israeliterne, i Overensstemmelse med, hvad der staar skrevet i Moses's Lovbog, et Alter af utilhugne Sten, hvor over der ikke var svunget Jern; og de bragte HERREN Brændofre og ofrede Takofre der.
as Moses the servant of the LORD commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the scroll of the Torah of Moses: an altar of uncut stones, on which no one had lifted up any iron. They offered burnt offerings on it to the LORD and sacrificed peace offerings.
32 Og han skrev der paa Stenene i Israeliternes Paasyn en Afskrift af Mose Lov, som denne havde skrevet,
He wrote there on the stones a copy of Moses’ law, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.
33 idet hele Israel og dets Ældste, Tilsynsmænd og Dommere stod paa begge Sider af Arken lige over for Levitpræsterne, som bar HERRENS Pagts Ark, de fremmede saavel som de indfødte, den ene Halvdel hen imod Garizims Bjerg, den anden Halvdel hen imod Ebals Bjerg, saaledes som HERRENS Tjener Moses forhen havde paabudt at velsigne Israels Folk.
All Israel, with their elders, officers, and judges, stood on both sides of the ark before the Levitical priests, who carried the ark of the LORD’s covenant, the foreigner as well as the native; half of them in front of Mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel.
34 Saa oplæste han alle Lovens Ord, Velsignelsen og Forbandelsen, alt som det var skrevet i Lovbogen;
Afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the scroll of the Torah.
35 ikke et Ord af alt, hvad Moses havde paabudt, undlod Josua at op læse for hele Israels Menighed, Mændene, Kvinderne og Børnene og de fremmede, som var draget med iblandt dem.
There was not a word of all that Moses commanded which Joshua didn’t read before all the assembly of Israel, with the women, the little ones, and the foreigners who were among them.
