Joshua 8
1 And YHWH says to Joshua, “Do not fear, nor be frightened, take with you all the people of war, and rise, go up to Ai; see, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land,
Mukama n’agamba Yoswa nti, “Totya era tokeŋŋentererwa, ddira abasajja bonna abalwanyi mulumbe ekibuga Ayi kubanga mbawadde obuwanguzi ku kyo. Kabaka, n’abantu be, ne byonna ebiri mu kibuga Ayi mbibawadde.
2 and you have done to Ai and to her king as you have done to Jericho and to her king; only spoil its spoil and its livestock for yourselves; for you set an ambush for the city at its rear.”
Ayi ne kabaka waakyo mu bayise nga bwe mwakola Yeriko, omunyago gwonna okuva mu Ayi ngubawadde. Mwekukume muteegere emabega w’ekibuga.”
3 And Joshua rises, and all the people of war, to go up to Ai, and Joshua chooses thirty thousand men, mighty men of valor, and sends them away by night,
Yoswa n’asituka n’eggye lyonna okulumba Ayi, n’alondamu abasajja abalwanyi abazira nnamige emitwalo esatu n’abasindika kiro okulumba Ayi.
4 and commands them, saying, “See, you are ones lying in wait against the city, at the rear of the city, you do not go very far off from the city, and all of you have been prepared,
N’abakuutira nti, “Mugende mwekukume kumpi n’ekibuga era muteegere abantu baamu emabega waakyo. Temugenda wala nakyo mwenna mube beetegefu.
5 and I and all the people who [are] with me draw near to the city, and it has come to pass, when they come out to meet us as at the first, and we have fled before them,
Nze n’abalwanyi abalala tujja kwolekera ekibuga, bwe banaatufubutula ng’olulala, tujja kuddukira ddala
6 and they have come out after us until we have drawn them out of the city, for they say, They are fleeing before us as at the first, and we have fled before them,
tubatwalirize ewala okuva ku kibuga, tubalowoozese nti, tubadduse. Ffe tujja kuddukira ddala tubabuleko.
7 and you rise from the ambush, and have occupied the city, and your God YHWH has given it into your hand;
Olwo mulyoke mufubutuke gye mwekwese, muwambe ekibuga kubanga Mukama ajja kukibawa mukiwangule.
8 and it has been, when you capture the city, you burn the city with fire, you do according to the word of YHWH, see, I have commanded you.”
Kasita mukiyingira nga mukikumako omuliro. Mukole nga Mukama bw’alagidde. Ebyo bye mbakuutidde.”
9 And Joshua sends them away, and they go to the ambush, and abide between Bethel and Ai, on the west of Ai; and Joshua lodges on that night in the midst of the people.
Yoswa n’abasindika ne bagenda beekweka wakati wa Beseri ne Ayi ebugwanjuba w’ekibuga Ayi. Ekiro ekyo Yoswa yakimala n’Abayisirayiri abalala.
10 And Joshua rises early in the morning, and inspects the people, and goes up, he and [the] elderly of Israel, before the people to Ai;
Yoswa yakeera nnyo mu makya ne yeekebejja abalwanyi be, oluvannyuma ye n’abakulembeze b’Abayisirayiri ne boolekera Ayi.
11 and all the people of war who [are] with him have gone up, and draw near and come in before the city, and encamp on the north of Ai; and the valley [is] between him and Ai.
Abasajja bonna abalwanyi ne basemberera ekibuga era ne bakuŋŋaanira mu maaso g’ekibuga Ayi mu bukiikakkono bwakyo, ng’ekiwonvu kye kibaawula.
12 And he takes about five thousand men, and sets them [for] an ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west of the city;
Yoswa n’addira abalwanyi ng’enkumi ttaano ne bateegera wakati wa Beseri ne Ayi ebuvanjuba w’ekibuga.
13 and they set the people, all the camp which [is] on the north of the city, and its rear on the west of the city, and that night Joshua goes on into the midst of the valley.
Ekibinja ky’abalwanyi ekisinga obunene ne kikuŋŋaanira mu bukiikakkono w’ekibuga ate ekibinja ekizibizi ne kikuŋŋaanira ebugwanjuba w’ekibuga. Naye ye Yoswa ekiro ekyo yasula mu kiwonvu.
14 And it comes to pass, when the king of Ai sees [it], that he hurries, and rises early, and the men of the city go out to meet Israel for battle, he and all his people, at the appointed time, at the front of the plain, and he has not known that an ambush [is] against him, on the rear of the city.
Mu makya kabaka wa Ayi n’abantu be olwalengera Abayisirayiri ne bafubutuka okugenda okubalwanyisa awo okwolekera Alaba, naye tebaamanya nti waaliwo Abayisirayiri abalala abaali babeekwekeredde emabega w’ekibuga.
15 And Joshua and all Israel [seem] struck before them, and flee the way of the wilderness,
Yoswa n’ekibinja ky’Abayisirayiri be yali nabo ne beefuula ng’abawanguddwa ne badduka nga boolekedde eddungu.
16 and all the people who [are] in the city are called to pursue after them, and they pursue after Joshua, and are drawn away out of the city,
Abantu bonna abaali mu kibuga ne bakoowoolwa okugoba Abayisirayiri, ne babagobera ddala era ne babawereekereza wala nnyo n’ekibuga.
17 and there has not been a man left in Ai and Bethel who has not gone out after Israel, and they leave the city open, and pursue after Israel.
Tewali musajja n’omu yasigala mu Ayi oba Beseri, ekibuga kyonna baaleka kiggule nga bagenze okugoba Abayisirayiri.
18 And YHWH says to Joshua, “Stretch out with the javelin which [is] in your hand toward Ai, for I give it into your hand”; and Joshua stretches out with the javelin which [is] in his hand toward the city,
Mukama n’agamba Yoswa nti, “Galula omuwunda gwo ng’ogwolekeza Ayi, kubanga ojja kukiwangula.” Bw’atyo Yoswa n’agalula omuwunda gwe eri Ayi.
19 and the ambush has risen [with] haste, out of its place, and they run at the stretching out of his hand, and go into the city, and capture it, and hurry, and burn the city with fire.
Amangwago ng’agaludde omuwunda abaali beekwese ne bafubutukayo ne besogga ekibuga era amangwago ne bakikoleeza omuliro.
20 And the men of Ai look behind them, and see, and behold, the smoke of the city has gone up to the heavens, and there has not been power in them to flee here and there—and the people who are fleeing to the wilderness have turned against the pursuer—
Abasajja b’omu Ayi bagenda okukebuka ng’ekibuga kyabwe kinyooka omukka nga tebakyasobola kudda mabega wadde okugenda mu maaso.
21 and Joshua and all Israel have seen that the ambush has captured the city, and that the smoke of the city has gone up, and they turn back and strike the men of Ai;
Yoswa n’abasajja be bwe baalaba nga bannaabwe beesozze ekibuga era ne bakyokya, kwe kukyukira abaali babagoba ne babatta ebitagambika.
22 and these have come out from the city to meet them, and they are in the midst of Israel, some on this [side], and some on that [side], and they strike them until he has not left a remnant and escaped one to them;
Abayisirayiri abaayokya ekibuga nabo ne bavaayo ne bafuumbikiriza abasajja b’omu Ayi ne babatta obutalekaawo n’omu.
23 and they have caught the king of Ai alive, and bring him near to Joshua.
Naye ye kabaka w’e Ayi baamuwamba ne bamuleetera Yoswa.
24 And it comes to pass, at Israel’s finishing to slay all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they pursued them (and all of them fall by the mouth of the sword until their consumption), that all of Israel turns back to Ai, and strikes it by the mouth of the sword;
Abayisirayiri bwe baamala okutta abantu b’omu Ayi abaali babagoberedde mu ddungu, ne balyoka bakomawo mu kibuga kya Ayi ne batta abantu bonna abaakirimu.
25 and all who fall during the day, of men and of women, are twelve thousand—all men of Ai.
Abasajja n’abakazi abattibwa ku olwo bonna baali omutwalo gumu mu enkumi bbiri.
26 And Joshua has not brought back his hand which he stretched out with the javelin until he has devoted all the inhabitants of Ai;
Yoswa bwe yagalula omuwunda gwe okugwolekeza ekibuga Ayi teyagussa wansi okutuusa ng’abaamu bonna bamaze okuzikirizibwa.
27 only the livestock and the spoil of that city has Israel spoiled for themselves, according to the word of YHWH which He commanded Joshua.
Ente n’ebintu ebirala bye baasanga mu kibuga, Abayisirayiri ne babitwala okuba omunyago gwabwe nga Mukama bwe yakuutira Yoswa.
28 And Joshua burns Ai, and makes it a continuous heap—a desolation to this day;
Yoswa n’ayokya Ayi era ne kifuuka kifunvu ne leero.
29 and he has hanged the king of Ai on the tree until evening, and at the going in of the sun Joshua has commanded, and they take down his carcass from the tree, and cast it to the opening of the gate of the city, and raise a great heap of stones over it until this day.
Ate n’atta kabaka wa Ayi n’amuwanika ku muti okutuusa akawungeezi lwe baawanulayo omulambo gwe ne bagusuula awo ku wankaaki w’ekibuga ne bagutuumako entuumu y’amayinja era ekyaliyo ne kaakano.
30 Then Joshua builds an altar to YHWH, God of Israel, in Mount Ebal,
Oluvannyuma Yoswa n’azimbira Mukama Katonda wa Isirayiri, ekyoto ku lusozi Ebali.
31 as Moses, servant of YHWH, commanded the sons of Israel, as it is written in the Scroll of the Law of Moses—an altar of whole stones, over which he has not waved iron—and they cause burnt-offerings to go up on it to YHWH, and sacrifice peace-offerings;
Nga Musa omuweereza wa Mukama bwe yakuutira Abayisirayiri era nga bwe kyawandiikibwa mu kitabo ky’amateeka ga Musa, “Ekyoto eky’amayinja agataabajjibwa muntu ng’akozesa ekyuma.” Bwe kyaggwa ne batandika okukiweerako Mukama ebiweebwayo ebyokebwa n’ebiweebwayo olw’emirembe.
32 and he writes there on the stones a copy of the Law of Moses, which he has written in the presence of the sons of Israel.
Era n’awandiikira eyo ku mayinja mu maaso g’Abayisirayiri bonna, amateeka Musa ge yasooka okuwandiikira abaana ba Isirayiri.
33 And all Israel, and its elderly, and authorities, and his judges, are standing on this [side] and on that [side] of the Ark, before the priests, the Levites, carrying the Ark of the Covenant of YHWH, the sojourner as well as the native, half of them in front of Mount Gerizim, and the half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses servant of YHWH had commanded to bless the people of Israel at the first.
Abayisirayiri bonna n’abakulembeze baabwe, abalamuzi, n’abakungu ne bannaggwanga bonna ab’omu Isirayiri ne bayimirira eruuyi n’eruuyi w’Essanduuko okwolekera bakabona Abaleevi abaasitulanga Essanduuko y’Endagaano ya Mukama. Ne beegabanyaamu, ekitundu ekimu ne bayimirira mu maaso g’olusozi Gerizimu, ate abalala ne bayimirira mu maaso g’olusozi Ebali, nga Musa omuddu wa Mukama bwe yabalagira mu kusooka nti, “Kibagwanidde okusabira Abayisirayiri omukisa.”
34 And afterward he has proclaimed all the words of the Law, the blessing and the reviling, according to all that is written in the Scroll of the Law;
Oluvannyuma Yoswa n’abasomera ebigambo byonna eby’omu mateeka, emikisa n’ebikolimo nga byonna bwe byawandiikibwa mu Kitabo ky’Amateeka.
35 there has not been a thing of all that Moses commanded which Joshua has not proclaimed before all the assembly of Israel, and the women, and the infants, and the sojourner who is going in their midst.
Tewali kigambo na kimu Musa kye yalagira, Yoswa ky’ataasomera Bayisirayiri bonna, abaali bakuŋŋaanye abasajja n’abakazi n’abaana abato ssaako ne bannaggwanga be baabeeranga nabo.
