Joshua 8
1 Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid or discouraged. Take the whole army with you, and go up and attack Ai. See, I have delivered into your hand the king of Ai, his people, his city, and his land.
Le hoe t’Iehovà am’Iehosoa: Ko hemban-drehe, ko manahelo; miavota naho endeso mindre ama’o mb’e Ày mb’eo ze hene lahin-defoñe, Inao fa natoloko am-pità’o ty mpanjaka’ i Ày naho ondati’eo naho i rova’ey vaho i tane’ey.
2 And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king, except that you may carry off their plunder and livestock for yourselves. Set up an ambush behind the city.”
Hanoe’o amy Ày naho amy mpanjaka’ey hambañe amy nanoa’o am’ Ieriko naho i mpanjaka’eiy; fe ho tana’ areo ho tsindro’ areo o vara’eo, naho o añombe’eo, Vandroño boak’ am-boho’e ao i rovay.
3 So Joshua and the whole army set out to attack Ai. Joshua chose 30,000 mighty men of valor and sent them out at night
Aa le niongake t’Iehosoa rekets’ o hene’ lahin-defoñeo, hionjoñe mb’e Ày mb’eo; jinobo’ Iehosoa ty lahilahy telo-ale, fanalolahy mahavany, vaho nirahe’e mb’eo haleñe.
4 with these orders: “Pay attention. You are to lie in ambush behind the city, not too far from it. All of you must be ready.
Nafanto’e ami’ty hoe: Inao! hiampitse amboho’ i rovay nahareo hamandroñe i rovay, ko halavira’ areo i rovay, vaho fonga mihentseña.
5 Then I and all the troops with me will advance on the city. When they come out against us as they did the first time, we will flee from them.
Izaho reketse ze hene’ ondaty amako ro higodañe mb’ amy rovay mb’eo; ie amy zao, naho miakatse hañoridañe anay iereo manahake i teoy, le handripak’ an-day añatrefa’ iareo zahay.
6 They will pursue us until we have drawn them away from the city, for they will say, ‘The Israelites are running away from us as they did before.’ So as we flee from them,
Ie miakatse hañoridañe anay, naho fa tinari’ay hisitak’ amy rovay le hanao ty hoe: Hehe t’ie milay an-tikañe manahake tam-pifotora’ey. Izay ty hilaisa’ay aolo’ iareo mb’eo.
7 you are to rise from the ambush and seize the city, for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.
Hiongak’ am-piampirañe amy zao nahareo hitavañe i rovay; fa hatolo’ Iehovà Andrianañahare’ areo am-pità’ areo.
8 And when you have taken the city, set it on fire. Do as the LORD has commanded! See, I have given you orders.”
Ie nivotrake amy rovay, le ampiforeheto añ’ afo i rovay; i tsinara’ Iehovày ty hanoa’ areo aze; inay, fa liniliko.
9 So Joshua sent them out, and they went to the place of ambush and lay in wait between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai. But Joshua spent that night among the people.
Aa le nampionjone’ Iehosa; le nimb’eo iereo niampitse, naho nitobe añivo’ i Betele naho i Ày ahandrefa’ i Ày ao; nialeñe am’ ondatio avao t’Iehosoa.
10 Joshua got up early the next morning and mobilized his men, and he and the elders of Israel marched before them up to Ai.
Nañampitso amy loak’ àndroy t’Iehosoa, le nitehafe’e ondatio vaho nionjoñe mb’eo, ie naho o mpiaolo’ Israeleo ty niaolo ondatio mb’e Ày añe.
11 Then all the troops who were with him marched up and approached the city. They arrived in front of Ai and camped to the north of it, with the valley between them and the city.
Aa le nionjom’ beo iaby ondaty nindre ama’eo, o lahindefoñeo, naho nañarine mb’eo, le nijohañe tandrife i rovay, vaho nitobe avara’ i Ày ey; toe añivo’e naho i Ày eo ty vavatane.
12 Now Joshua had taken about five thousand men and set up an ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city.
Nandrambe lahilahy va’e lime-arivo re vaho nampiampire’e añivo’ i Betele naho i Ày ahandrefa’ i rovay.
13 So the forces were stationed with the main camp to the north of the city and the rear guard to the west of the city. And that night Joshua went into the valley.
Aa le nisalahàñe i maroiy: i lahialeñe avara’ i rovaiy naho o nivolio am-piampirañe ahandrefa’ i rovay ao; le nimb’ añ’ ivo’ i vavataney hialeñe t’Iehosoa.
14 When the king of Ai saw the Israelites, he hurried out early in the morning with the men of the city to engage them in battle at an appointed place overlooking the Arabah. But he did not know that an ambush had been set up against him behind the city.
Ie amy zao, naho nahaoniñe izay ty mpanjaka’ i Ay le nalisa niongake maraindray o lahilahi’ i rovaio vaho niakatse hiambotrak’ am’ Israele an-kotakotake, ie naho ondati’e iabio, mb’ amy namotoañañey, aolo’ i Arabày; fe tsy napota’e te amboho’ i rovay ty nivoñoñe aze.
15 Joshua and all Israel let themselves be beaten back before them, and they fled toward the wilderness.
Nanao sare gioke aolo’ iareo t’Iehosoa naho Israele iaby, le nandripàke mb’ an-dala’ i fatrambeiy mb’eo.
16 Then all the men of Ai were summoned to pursue them, and they followed Joshua and were drawn away from the city.
Aa le kinoike iaby ondati’ i Aio hifanontoñe, hañoridàñe; le nihoridà’ iareo t’Iehosoa, nisitake amy rovay.
17 Not a man was left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel, leaving the city wide open while they pursued Israel.
Tsy nengaeñe ondaty ty e Ay ndra e Betele ao ze tsy niakatse hañotroke Israele; napo’ iareo nisokake i rovay le nañoridañe Israele.
18 Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Hold out your battle lance toward Ai, for into your hand I will deliver the city.” So Joshua held out his battle lance toward Ai,
Aa le hoe t’Iehovà am’ Iehosoa: Atora-kitsio mb’amy Ay i lefoñe am-pità’oy; fa hatoloko am-pità’o. Aa le nahiti’ Iehosoa mb’ amy rovay i lefoñe am-pità’ey.
19 and as soon as he did so, the men in ambush rose quickly from their position. They rushed forward, entered the city, captured it, and immediately set it on fire.
Nivoratsake boak’ an-toe’e ao amy zao o niampitseo; namorehetse ty lay mb’eo ty amy nañitia’e i fità’eiy naho nimoak’ amy rovay ao, nitavañe aze, vaho namiañe afo amy rovay.
20 When the men of Ai turned and looked back, the smoke of the city was rising into the sky. They could not escape in any direction, and the troops who had fled to the wilderness now became the pursuers.
Aa ie nitolike naho niisake mañamboho o lahilahi’ i Aio, ingo nañatoeñe mb’ an-dikeramb’eo i rovay, le tsy nioniñe ty hipotatsaha’ iareo ke mb’ atia he mb’ etia amy te nibalike mb’ amo nañoridañe iareoo mb’eo o nilay mb’ ampatrambeio.
21 When Joshua and all Israel saw that the men in ambush had captured the city and that smoke was rising from it, they turned around and struck down the men of Ai.
Naho nioni’ Iehosoa naho Israele iaby te tinava’ o nanàmpokeo i rovay naho te nionjoñe mañambone ty hatoe’ i rovay, le nibalike, vaho zinama’ iareo o lahilahi’ i Aio.
22 Meanwhile, those in the ambush came out of the city against them, and the men of Ai were trapped between the Israelite forces on both sides. So Israel struck them down until no survivor or fugitive remained.
Niakatse i rovay ka o ila’eo hifañatrek’ am’ iareo; aa le niarikoboña’ Israele, etia ty ila’e, atia ty ila’e, vaho binaibai’e iereo ampara’ t’ie po-sehanga’e leo raike tsy nahapoliotse.
23 But they took the king of Ai alive and brought him to Joshua.
Nenga’ iereo veloñe ty mpanjaka’ i Ay vaho nasese mb’ am’ Iehosoa mb’eo.
24 When Israel had finished killing all the men of Ai who had pursued them into the field and wilderness, and when every last one of them had fallen by the sword, all the Israelites returned to Ai and put it to the sword as well.
Ie nihenefe’ Israele zamañe o mpimone’ i Ay an-kivoke eio naho i ampatrañe ey nañoridañe iareo rezay, toe nampitsingoritriem-pibara ampara’ t’ie nimongotse, le hene nitolike mb’e Ay mb’eo t’Israele, nanjevoñ’ aze an-dela-pibara.
25 A total of twelve thousand men and women fell that day—all the people of Ai.
Ty hamaro nikorovok’ amy andro zay amo lahilahy naho rakembao, le rai-ale-tsi-ro’arivo—ze hene’ondati’ i Ay.
26 Joshua did not draw back the hand that held his battle lance until he had devoted to destruction all who lived in Ai.
Tsy nafore’ Iehosoa ty fità’e nañity i lefoñey ampara’ te nimongore’e ze fonga mpimone’ i Ay.
27 Israel took for themselves only the cattle and plunder of that city, as the LORD had commanded Joshua.
O añombeo naho i vara-fikopa’ i rovay avao ty tinava’ Israele ho fitsindro’e ty amy tsara linili’ Iehovà am’Iehosoay.
28 So Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanent heap of ruins, a desolation to this day.
Aa le finorototo’ Iehosoa ty Ay naho nanoe’e tamboho tsy modo, toe hoake ampara’ henane.
29 He hung the king of Ai on a tree until evening, and at sunset Joshua commanded that they take down the body from the tree and throw it down at the entrance of the city gate. And over it they raised a large pile of rocks, which remains to this day.
Naradorado’e an-katae ty mpanjaka’ i Ay ampara’ te hariva; ie tsofots’ andro le nandily t’Iehosoa naho nazotso’ iareo amy hataey i lolo’ey, naho navokovoko an-dalam-bei’ i rovay vaho naonjoñe ama’e ty votrim-bato jabajaba mbe eo henanekeo.
30 At that time Joshua built an altar on Mount Ebal to the LORD, the God of Israel,
Le namboara’ Iehosoa kitrely t’Iehovà, Andrianañahare’ Israele, am-bohi’ Ebale eo
31 just as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded the Israelites. He built it according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses: “an altar of uncut stones on which no iron tool has been used.” And on it they offered burnt offerings to the LORD, and they sacrificed peace offerings.
ty amy nandilia’ i Mosè mpitoro’ Iehovà o ana’ Israeleoy, manahake i sinokitse amy boke Hà’ i Mosèiy, kitrely vato tsy pinèke, tsy nañonjonañe viñe; naho nibanabanae’ iareo soroñe am’ Iehovà, vaho nandenta engan-kanintsiñe.
32 And there in the presence of the Israelites, Joshua inscribed on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he had written.
Sinoki’e amo vatoo ty hambañe amy Tsara’ i Mosèy, nisokire’e añatrefa’ o ana’ Israeleo.
33 All Israel, foreigners and citizens alike, with their elders, officers, and judges, stood on both sides of the ark of the covenant of the LORD facing the Levitical priests who carried it. Half of the people stood in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded earlier, to bless the people of Israel.
Hene nijohañe añ’ila’ i vatam-pañinay etoy naho añ’ ila’e eroy añatrefa’ o mpisoroñe nte-Levy nitarazo i vatam-pañina’ Iehovàio t’Israele naho o mpiaolo’eo naho o mpifehe’eo vaho o mpizaka’eo sindre tao ty renetane naho t’indaty; ty ila’e aolo’ i vohi-Gerizimey naho ty ila’e aolo’ i vohi-Ebaley; ty amy nandilia’ i Mosè mpitoro’ Iehovà am-baloha’ey, hitatàñe o ana’ Israeleo.
34 Afterward, Joshua read aloud all the words of the law—the blessings and the curses—according to all that is written in the Book of the Law.
Modo izay le vinaki’e o enta’ i Hake iabio, o tatao naho o fatseo, ze hene sinokitse amy boke’ i Hake ao.
35 There was not a word of all that Moses had commanded that Joshua failed to read before the whole assembly of Israel, including the women, the little ones, and the foreigners who lived among them.
Ndra raik’ amo tsara linili’ i Mosèo tsy nado’ Iehosoa fa hene nivakie añatrefam-pivori-bei’ Israele, naho amo rakembao, naho amo keleiañeo vaho amo renetane niharo am’ iereoo.
