Joshua 8
1 Then the Lord said to Joshua, Have no fear and do not be troubled: take with you all the fighting-men and go up against Ai: for I have given into your hands the king of Ai and his people and his town 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 are to do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king: but their goods and their cattle you may take for yourselves: let a secret force be stationed to make a surprise attack on the town from the back.
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 fighting-men got ready to go up against Ai; and Joshua took thirty thousand men of war, and sent them out by 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 And he gave them their orders, saying, Go and take up your position secretly at the back of the town: do not go very far away, and let all of you 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 And I and all the people with me will come near the town, and when they come out against us as they did before, we will go in flight 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 And they will come out after us, till we have got them away from the town; for they will say, They have gone in flight from us as before; so we will go in flight before 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 Then you will get up from your secret position and take the town, for the Lord your God will give it up into your hands.
Hiongak’ am-piampirañe amy zao nahareo hitavañe i rovay; fa hatolo’ Iehovà Andrianañahare’ areo am-pità’ areo.
8 And when you have taken the town, put fire to it, as the Lord has said: see, I have given you your 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 took up a secret position between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua kept with the people that night.
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 And early in the morning Joshua got up, and put the people in order, and he and the chiefs of Israel went up before the people 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 And all the fighting-men who were with him went up and came near the town, and took up a position on the north side of Ai facing the town, with a valley between him and the town.
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 And taking about five thousand men, he put them in position for a surprise attack on the west side of Ai, between Beth-el and Ai.
Nandrambe lahilahy va’e lime-arivo re vaho nampiampire’e añivo’ i Betele naho i Ày ahandrefa’ i rovay.
13 So all the people were in their places, the army on the north side of the town and the secret force on the west; and that night Joshua went down 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 Now when the king of Ai saw it, he got up quickly and went out to war against Israel, he and all his people, to the slope going down to the valley; but he had no idea that a secret force was waiting at the back of the town.
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 Then Joshua and all Israel, acting as if they were overcome before them, went in flight by way of the waste land.
Nanao sare gioke aolo’ iareo t’Iehosoa naho Israele iaby, le nandripàke mb’ an-dala’ i fatrambeiy mb’eo.
16 And all the people in Ai came together to go after them; and they went after Joshua, moving away from the town.
Aa le kinoike iaby ondati’ i Aio hifanontoñe, hañoridàñe; le nihoridà’ iareo t’Iehosoa, nisitake amy rovay.
17 There was not a man in Ai and Beth-el who did not go out after Israel; and the town was open and unwatched while they went after 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 And the Lord said to Joshua, Let your spear be stretched out against Ai; for I will give it into your hands. So Joshua took up his spear, stretching it out in the direction of the town.
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 Then the secret force came quickly from their place, and running forward when they saw his hand stretched out, went into the town and took it, and put fire to it straight away.
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 Then the men of Ai, looking back, saw the smoke of the town going up to heaven, and were unable to go this way or that: and the people who had gone in flight to the waste land were turned back on those who were coming after them.
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 And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the town had been taken by the surprise attack, and that the smoke of the town had gone up, turning round they overcame 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 Then the other force came out of the town against them, so that they were being attacked on this side and on that: and Israel overcame them and let not one of them get away with his life.
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 the king of Ai they made prisoner, and took him to Joshua.
Nenga’ iereo veloñe ty mpanjaka’ i Ay vaho nasese mb’ am’ Iehosoa mb’eo.
24 Then, after the destruction of all the people of Ai in the field and in the waste land where they went after them, and when all the people had been put to death without mercy, all Israel went back to Ai, and put to death all who were in it without mercy.
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 On that day twelve thousand were put to death, men and women, 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 For Joshua did not take back his hand with the outstretched spear till the destruction of the people of Ai was complete.
Tsy nafore’ Iehosoa ty fità’e nañity i lefoñey ampara’ te nimongore’e ze fonga mpimone’ i Ay.
27 But the cattle and the goods from that town, Israel took for themselves, as the Lord had given orders to 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 gave Ai to the flames, and made it a waste mass of stones for ever, as it is to this day.
Aa le finorototo’ Iehosoa ty Ay naho nanoe’e tamboho tsy modo, toe hoake ampara’ henane.
29 And he put the king of Ai to death, hanging him on a tree till evening: and when the sun went down, Joshua gave them orders to take his body down from the tree, and put it in the public place of the town, covering it with a great mass of stones, which is there 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 Then Joshua put up an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel, in Mount Ebal,
Le namboara’ Iehosoa kitrely t’Iehovà, Andrianañahare’ Israele, am-bohi’ Ebale eo
31 In the way ordered by Moses, the servant of the Lord, as it is recorded in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of uncut stones, untouched by any iron instrument: and on it they made burned offerings and peace-offerings to the Lord.
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 he made there on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, writing it before the eyes of the children of Israel.
Sinoki’e amo vatoo ty hambañe amy Tsara’ i Mosèy, nisokire’e añatrefa’ o ana’ Israeleo.
33 And all Israel, those who were Israelites by birth, as well as the men from other lands living with them, and their responsible men and their overseers and judges, took their places round the ark, in front of the priests, the Levites, whose work it was to take up the ark of the Lord's agreement; half of them were stationed in front of Mount Gerizim and half in front of Mount Ebal, in agreement with the orders for the blessing of the children of Israel which Moses, the servant of the Lord, had given.
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 And after, he gave them all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, as it is all recorded 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 Reading to all the meeting of Israel, with the women and the children and the men from other lands who were living among them, every word of the orders which Moses had given.
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.
