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.
Gospod je rekel Józuetu: »Ne boj se niti ne bodi zaprepaden. S seboj vzemi vse bojno ljudstvo in se dvigni, pojdi gor do Aja. Glej, v tvojo roko sem izročil ajskega kralja, njegovo ljudstvo, njegovo mesto in njegovo deželo.
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.”
Aju in njegovemu kralju boš storil, kakor si storil Jerihi in njenemu kralju. Samo njegov plen in njegovo živino si boste zaplenili. Zadaj za mestom si postavi zasedo.«
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.
Tako je Józue vstal in vse bojno ljudstvo, da gredo gor zoper Aj. Józue je izbral trideset tisoč močnih junaških mož in jih ponoči odposlal.
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].
Zapovedal jim je, rekoč: »Glejte, prežali boste v zasedi zoper mesto, torej za mestom. Ne pojdite zelo daleč od mesta, temveč vsi bodite pripravljeni.
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.
Jaz in vse ljudstvo, ki je z menoj, se bomo približali mestu in zgodilo se bo, ko bodo prišli ven zoper nas, kakor prvič, da bomo pobegnili pred njimi,
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,
(kajti prišli bodo ven za nami), dokler jih ne bomo pritegnili iz mesta, kajti rekli bodo: ›Pred nami bežijo, kakor prvič.‹ Zato bomo pobegnili pred njimi.
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.
Potem boste vstali iz zasede in se polastili mesta, kajti Gospod, vaš Bog, ga bo izročil v vašo roko.
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.”
Zgodilo se bo, ko boste zavzeli mesto, da boste požgali mesto. Glede na Gospodovo zapoved boste storili. Poglejte, zapovedal sem vam.«
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.
Józue jih je torej poslal naprej in odšli so, da ležijo v zasedi in ostanejo med Betelom in Ajem, na zahodni strani Aja. Toda Józue je to noč prenočil med ljudstvom.
10 Early the next morning, Joshua gathered his soldiers together. Then he and the other Israeli leaders led them up to Ai.
Józue je vstal zgodaj zjutraj, preštel ljudstvo in odšel gor, on in Izraelovi starešine, pred ljudstvo Aja.
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.
Vse ljudstvo, celo bojno ljudstvo, ki je bilo z njim, je odšlo gor, se približalo, prišlo pred mesto in se utaborilo na severni strani Aja. Torej tam je bila dolina med njimi in Ajem.
12 Then Joshua chose about 5,000 men and told them to go and hide just west of the city, between Ai and Bethel.
Vzel je okoli pet tisoč mož in jih postavil, da ležijo v zasedi med Betelom in Ajem, na zahodni strani mesta.
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.
Ko so postavili ljudstvo, torej vso vojsko, ki je bila na severu mesta in svoje prežavce v zasedi na zahodni strani mesta, je to noč Józue odšel v sredo doline.
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.
Ko je kralj Aja to videl, se je pripetilo, da so pohiteli in zgodaj vstali in možje iz mesta so odšli ven zoper Izraela, da se bojujejo, on in vse njegovo ljudstvo, ob določenem času pred ravnino. Toda ni vedel, da so bili za mestom zoper njega prežavci v zasedi.
15 Joshua and the Israeli soldiers [who were with him] allowed the army of Ai to push them back. They ran toward the desert.
Józue in ves Izrael so se pretvarjali kakor bi bili poraženi pred njimi in pobegnili po poti divjine.
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.
Vse ljudstvo, ki je bilo v Aju, je bilo sklicano skupaj, da jih zasledujejo. Zasledovali so Józueta in bili so pritegnjeni proč iz mesta.
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.
V Aju ali v Betelu ni ostal niti mož, ki ne bi odšel ven za Izraelom in mesto so pustili odprto in sledili za Izraelom.
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.
Gospod je rekel Józuetu: »Iztegni sulico, ki je v tvoji roki, zoper Aj, kajti jaz ga bom dal v tvojo roko.« Józue je zoper mesto iztegnil sulico, ki jo je imel v svoji roki.
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.
Zaseda je hitro vstala iz svojega kraja in stekli so takoj, ko je iztegnil svojo roko. Vstopili so v mesto, ga zavzeli, pohiteli in mesto zažgali.
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.
Ko so možje iz Aja pogledali za seboj, so videli in glej, dim iz mesta se je dvigoval proti nebu in niso imeli moči, da pobegnejo to pot ali tisto pot. Ljudstvo, ki je bežalo k divjini, se je obrnilo nazaj proti zasledovalcem.
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.
Ko je Józue in ves Izrael videl, da je zaseda zavzela mesto in da se iz mesta dviguje dim, potem so se ponovno obrnili in usmrtili može iz Aja.
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.
In drugi so izšli iz mesta zoper njih. Tako so bili v sredi Izraela, nekateri na tej strani in nekateri na oni strani in udarili so jih tako, da nobenega izmed njih niso pustili ostati ali pobegniti.
23 Then they seized the king of Ai and brought him to Joshua.
Kralja Aja so prijeli živega in ga privedli pred Józueta.
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.
Ko je Izrael naredil konec pobijanju vseh prebivalcev Aja na polju, v divjini, kjer so jih zasledovali in ko so vsi padli pod ostrino meča, dokler niso bili použiti, se je pripetilo, da so se vsi Izraelci vrnili v Aj in ga udarili z ostrino meča.
25 They killed 12,000 men and women.
Bilo je tako, da je bilo vseh, ki so ta dan padli, tako mož in žensk, dvanajst tisoč, torej vsi možje iz Aja.
26 Joshua continued to point his spear [LIT] toward Ai, until all the people in Ai had been killed.
Kajti Józue svoje roke, s katero je iztegnil sulico, ni potegnil nazaj, dokler ni popolnoma uničil vseh prebivalcev Aja.
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.
Samo živino in ukradeno blago iz mesta si je Izrael vzel za plen, glede na Gospodovo besedo, ki jo je zapovedal Józuetu.
28 Joshua and his soldiers burned Ai city and caused it to become a pile of ruins. It is still like that today.
Józue je požgal Aj in ga naredil kup na veke, opustošenje do današnjega dne.
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.
Ajskega kralja je obesil na drevo do večera in takoj, ko je sonce zašlo, je Józue zapovedal, da njegovo truplo vzamejo dol iz drevesa in ga odvržejo pri vhodu velikih vrat mesta in nad njim naložijo velik kup kamenja, ki ostaja do tega dne.
30 Joshua [told his men to] build on Ebal Mountain an altar for Yahweh, the God [who is worshiped by] the Israeli people.
Potem je Józue zgradil oltar Gospodu, Izraelovemu Bogu, na gori Ebál,
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.
kakor je Gospodov služabnik Mojzes zapovedal Izraelovim otrokom, kakor je to zapisano v knjigi Mojzesove postave, oltar iz celih kamnov, nad katere noben človek ni dvignil nobenega železa in na njem so darovali žgalne daritve Gospodu in žrtvovali mirovne daritve.
32 As the Israelis watched, Joshua wrote on stones the laws that [Yahweh had given] to Moses previously.
Na kamne je napisal prepis iz Mojzesove postave, ki jo je napisal v prisotnosti Izraelovih otrok.
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.
Ves Izrael, njihove starešine, častniki in njihovi sodniki, so stali na tej strani skrinje in na oni strani, pred duhovniki Lévijevci, ki so nosili skrinjo Gospodove zaveze, kakor tudi tujec, kakor ta, ki je bil rojen med njimi. Polovica izmed njih nasproti gore Garizím in polovica izmed njih nasproti gore Ebál, kakor je Gospodov služabnik Mojzes prej zapovedal, da bodo blagoslovili izraelsko ljudstvo.
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].
Potem je bral vse besede iz postave, blagoslove in prekletstva, glede na vse, kar je zapisano v knjigi postave.
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.
Ni bilo besede od vsega, kar je Mojzes zapovedal, česar Józue ni prebral pred vso Izraelovo skupnostjo, z ženskami, malčki in tujci, ki so bili seznanjeni med njimi.
