Joshua 8
1 The LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid, and do not 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.
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。
2 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.”
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。」
3 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.
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，
4 He commanded them, saying, “Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city. Do not go very far from the city, but all of you be ready.
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。
5 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.
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。
6 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,
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。
7 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.
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。
8 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.”
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。」
9 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.
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。
10 Joshua rose up early in the morning, mustered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.
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。
11 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.
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。
12 He took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.
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。
13 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.
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。
14 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 did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.
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。
15 Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.
若蘇厄和以色列人在他們面前詐敗，沿著往曠野的路奔逃，
16 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.
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；
17 There was not a man left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel. They left the city open, and pursued Israel.
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。
18 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.
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。
19 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.
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。
20 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.
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。
21 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.
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。
22 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.
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。
23 They captured the king of Ai alive, and brought him to Joshua.
他們生摛了哈依王，把他解到若蘇厄面前。
24 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.
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。
25 All that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the people of Ai.
那天被殺的人，男女共計一萬二千，都是哈依人。
26 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.
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。
27 Israel took for themselves only the livestock and the goods of that city, according to the LORD’s word which he commanded Joshua.
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。
28 So Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day.
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；
29 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.
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。
30 Then Joshua built an altar to the LORD, the God of Israel, on Mount Ebal,
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；
31 as Moses the servant of the LORD commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law 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.
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。
32 He wrote there on the stones a copy of Moses’ law, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.
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。
33 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.
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。
34 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.
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。
35 There was not a word of all that Moses commanded which Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel, with the women, the little ones, and the foreigners who were among them.
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。
