Joshua 8
1 Then Yahweh said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid or discouraged [because of what happened at] Ai. Lead all of your soldiers and go there again. I will help you to defeat the king of Ai, his people, and his city, and [enable you to take] his land.
| خداوند به یوشع فرمود: «ترس و واهمه را از خود دور کن! برخیز و تمام سربازان را همراه خود بردار و به عای روانه شو. من پادشاه آنجا را به دست تو تسلیم می‌کنم. مردم و شهر و زمین عای از آن تو خواهند شد. |
2 Your army will do to the people of Ai and their king like what you did to the people of Jericho and their king. But this time [I will permit you to] take all their possessions and keep them for yourselves. But first, tell some of your soldiers to [hide behind] the city [and] prepare to suddenly attack it.”
| با ایشان همان‌طور رفتار کن که با پادشاه اریحا و مردم آنجا رفتار نمودی. اما این بار چارپایان و غنایم شهر را می‌توانید میان خود قسمت کنید. در ضمن برای حمله به دشمن در پشت آن شهر، یک کمینگاه بساز.» |
3 So Joshua led all his army toward Ai. He chose 30,000 of his best fighters/warriors and prepared to send them out during the night.
| پس یوشع و تمام لشکر او آمادهٔ حمله به عای شدند. یوشع سی هزار تن از افراد دلیر خود را انتخاب کرد تا آنها را شبانه به عای بفرستد. |
4 He said to them, “Listen carefully. Some of you must hide on the other side of the city. Do not go far from the city. Just be ready [to attack].
| او به آنها این دستور را داد: «در پشت شهر در کمین بنشینید، ولی از شهر زیاد دور نشوید و برای حمله آماده باشید. |
5 I and the men who are with me will march toward the city [in the morning]. The men in the city will come out to fight us, like they did before. Then we will turn around and start to run away from them.
| نقشهٔ ما چنین است: من و افرادم به شهر نزدیک خواهیم شد. مردان شهر مانند دفعهٔ پیش به مقابلهٔ ما برخواهند خاست. در این هنگام ما عقب‌نشینی می‌کنیم. |
6 They will think that we are running away from them like we did before. So they will chase us away from the city. While we are running away,
| آنها به گمان اینکه مانند دفعهٔ پیش در حال فرار هستیم به تعقیب ما خواهند پرداخت و بدین ترتیب از شهر دور خواهند شد. |
7 [those of you who are hiding come out and] rush into the city and capture it. Yahweh your God will enable you to conquer it.
| بعد، شما از کمینگاه بیرون بیایید و به داخل شهر حمله کنید، زیرا خداوند آن را به دست شما تسلیم کرده است. |
8 After you capture the city, burn it. Do what Yahweh has commanded us to do. Those are the orders I am giving to you.”
| چنانکه خداوند فرموده است، شهر را بسوزانید. این یک دستور است.» |
9 Then Joshua [prepared to] send some of them to [hide and] wait between Ai and Bethel, which was west of Ai. But Joshua stayed with his other soldiers that night.
| پس آنها همان شب روانه شده، در کمینگاه بین بیت‌ئیل و طرف غربی عای پنهان شدند. اما یوشع و بقیهٔ لشکر در اردوگاه ماندند. |
10 Early the next morning, Joshua gathered his soldiers together. Then he and the other Israeli leaders led them up to Ai.
| روز بعد، صبح زود یوشع سربازان خود را صف‌آرایی نمود و خود با بزرگان اسرائیل در پیشاپیش لشکر به سوی عای حرکت کرد. |
11 They all set up their tents close to Ai, just to the north of the city, where all the people of the city could see them. There was a valley between them and the city.
| آنها در سمت شمالی شهر در کنار دره‌ای که بین آنها و شهر قرار داشت توقف کردند. یوشع پنج هزار نفر دیگر را هم فرستاد تا به سی هزار نفری که در کمینگاه بودند ملحق شوند. خود او با بقیهٔ نفرات، آن شب در همان دره ماند. |
12 Then Joshua chose about 5,000 men and told them to go and hide just west of the city, between Ai and Bethel.
13 So those men did that. The main group of soldiers was north of the city, and the others were hiding west of the city. That night Joshua went down into the valley.
14 When the king of Ai saw the Israeli army, he and his soldiers got up early the next morning and quickly went out of the city to fight them. They went to a place east of the city, but they did not know that some Israeli soldiers were hiding behind the city.
| پادشاه عای با دیدن لشکر اسرائیل در آن سوی دره، با لشکر خود برای مقابله با آنها به دشت اردن رفت، غافل از اینکه عدهٔ زیادی از اسرائیلی‌ها در پشت شهر در کمین نشسته‌اند. |
15 Joshua and the Israeli soldiers [who were with him] allowed the army of Ai to push them back. They ran toward the desert.
| یوشع و لشکر اسرائیل برای اینکه وانمود کنند که از دشمن شکست خورده‌اند، در بیابان پا به فرار گذاشتند. |
16 The men in Ai were ordered to chase after Joshua and his men. So they left the city and started to pursue the Israelis.
| به تمام مردان عای دستور داده شد به تعقیب آنها بپردازند. آنها برای تعقیب یوشع از شهر خارج شدند، |
17 All the men of Ai and the men of Bethel pursued the Israeli army. They did not leave even one man in Ai to defend it. The [gates of the] city were left wide open.
| به طوری که در عای و بیت‌ئیل یک سرباز هم باقی نماند و دروازه‌ها نیز به روی اسرائیلی‌ها باز بود! |
18 Then Yahweh said to Joshua, “[Lift up] your spear [and] point it toward Ai, because I am going to enable your soldiers to capture it!” So Joshua pointed [his spear] toward Ai.
| آنگاه خداوند به یوشع فرمود: «نیزهٔ خود را به سوی عای دراز کن، زیرا آن را به تو داده‌ام.» یوشع چنین کرد. |
19 When the Israeli men who were hiding saw that, they rushed out from the places where they were hiding and ran into the city. They quickly captured it and set it on fire.
| سربازانی که در کمینگاه منتظر بودند وقتی این علامت را که یوشع داده بود دیدند، از کمینگاه بیرون آمده، به شهر هجوم بردند و آن را به آتش کشیدند. |
20 When the men of Ai looked back, they saw smoke rising from their city. But they could not escape, because the Israeli troops stopped running away.
| سربازان عای وقتی به پشت سر نگاه کردند و دیدند دود غلیظی آسمان شهرشان را فرا گرفته است دست و پایشان چنان سست شد که قدرت فرار کردن هم از آنها سلب گردید. یوشع و همراهانش چون دود را بر فراز شهر دیدند فهمیدند سربازانی که در کمینگاه بودند به شهر حمله‌ور شده‌اند، پس خودشان هم بازگشتند و به کشتار تعقیب‌کنندگان خود پرداختند. |
21 Joshua and his men saw that the men who had been hiding had captured the city and were burning it, and they saw the smoke rising. So they turned around and started to attack the men of Ai.
22 Meanwhile, the soldiers who had captured the city came out [and attacked them from the rear]. So the men of Ai were caught between the two groups of Israeli soldiers. None of the men of Ai escaped. The Israelis fought until they killed all of them. Only the king of Ai was still alive.
| از طرف دیگر، سربازان اسرائیلی که در داخل شهر بودند بیرون آمده، به دشمن حمله کردند. به این ترتیب سربازان عای از دو طرف به دام سپاه اسرائیل افتادند و همه کشته شدند. |
23 Then they seized the king of Ai and brought him to Joshua.
| تنها کسی که زنده ماند پادشاه عای بود که او را هم اسیر کرده، نزد یوشع آوردند. |
24 While they were fighting, the Israeli army pursued the men of Ai into the fields and into the desert, and killed all of them. Then they went to Ai and killed everyone who was there.
| لشکر اسرائیل پس از اینکه افراد دشمن را در خارج از شهر کشتند، به عای وارد شدند تا بقیهٔ اهالی شهر را نیز از دم شمشیر بگذرانند. |
25 They killed 12,000 men and women.
| در آن روز، تمام جمعیت شهر که تعدادشان بالغ بر دوازده هزار نفر بود، هلاک شدند، |
26 Joshua continued to point his spear [LIT] toward Ai, until all the people in Ai had been killed.
| زیرا یوشع نیزهٔ خود را که به سوی عای دراز نموده بود، به همان حالت نگاه داشت تا موقعی که همهٔ مردم آن شهر کشته شدند. |
27 The Israeli soldiers took for themselves the animals and the other things that had belonged to the people of Ai, just like Yahweh had told Joshua that they should do.
| فقط اموال و چارپایان شهر باقی ماندند که قوم اسرائیل آنها را برای خود به غنیمت گرفتند. (خداوند به یوشع فرموده بود که آنها می‌توانند غنایم را برای خود نگه دارند.) |
28 Joshua and his soldiers burned Ai city and caused it to become a pile of ruins. It is still like that today.
| یوشع شهر عای را سوزانیده، به صورت خرابه‌ای درآورد که تا به امروز به همان حال باقیست. |
29 Joshua hanged the king of Ai on a tree and left his corpse hanging there until the evening. At sunset Joshua told his men to take the king’s corpse down from the tree and to throw it on the ground at the city gate. [After they did that], they piled a lot of rocks on top of the corpse, and that pile of rocks is still there.
| یوشع، پادشاه عای را به دار آویخت. هنگام غروب به دستور یوشع جسد او را پایین آورده، جلوی دروازۀ شهر انداختند و توده‌ای بزرگ از سنگ روی جسد او انباشتند که تا به امروز نیز باقیست. |
30 Joshua [told his men to] build on Ebal Mountain an altar for Yahweh, the God [who is worshiped by] the Israeli people.
| سپس یوشع برای خداوند، خدای اسرائیل مذبحی بر کوه عیبال بنا کرد. |
31 They built it just like Moses, the man who served God [well], had written previously in the laws [that God had given to him]. They made it from stones that had not been cut using iron tools. The Israelis then offered sacrifices to Yahweh that were burned completely on the altar. They also offered sacrifices to restore fellowship with Yahweh.
| چنانکه موسی، خدمتگزار خداوند، در تورات به قوم اسرائیل دستور داده بود، برای ساختن این مذبح از سنگهای نتراشیده استفاده کردند. سپس کاهنان، قربانیهای سلامتی بر آن به خداوند تقدیم کردند. |
32 As the Israelis watched, Joshua wrote on stones the laws that [Yahweh had given] to Moses previously.
| آنگاه یوشع در حضور جماعت اسرائیل، ده فرمان موسی را روی سنگهای مذبح نوشت. |
33 The Israeli leaders, the officials, the judges, and other Israelis were there, standing nearby. Many people who were not Israelis were also there. Half of the people stood [on one side of the valley] below Ebal Mountain, and the other half of the people stood [on the other side of the valley] below Gerizim Mountain. The sacred chest was [in the valley] between the two groups. That was what Moses had previously commanded that the people should do when [Yahweh was about to] bless them.
| پس از آن، تمام قوم اسرائیل با بزرگان، رهبران، داوران و حتی افراد غریبی که در میان ایشان بودند، به دو دسته تقسیم شدند. یک دسته در دامنهٔ کوه جَرِزیم ایستادند و دستهٔ دیگر در دامنهٔ کوه عیبال. در وسط این دو دسته، لاویان کاهن، در حالی که صندوق عهد را بر دوش داشتند، ایستادند تا قوم اسرائیل را برکت دهند. (همهٔ این رسوم مطابق دستوری که موسی قبلاً داده بود، انجام شد.) |
34 Then Joshua read [to the people] all that [Moses] had written previously. That included what Yahweh had taught them and the ways [that he promised] to bless them [if they obeyed his commands], or to curse them [if they disobeyed them].
| آنگاه یوشع تمام قوانین نوشته شده در تورات را که شامل برکت‌ها و لعنتها بود، برای مردم اسرائیل خواند. |
35 All the Israelis gathered together [to listen]—the men, the women, and the children. The (foreigners/people who were not Israelis) who were living among them also listened, while Joshua read all the commands that Moses had written.
| خلاصه، تمام دستورهای موسی بدون کم و کاست در حضور تمام مردان، زنان، جوانان، کودکان اسرائیل و غریبانی که با آنها بودند، خوانده شد. |
