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.
Dijo Yahvé a Josué: “No temas ni te amedrentes; toma contigo toda la gente de guerra, y levántate y sube a Hai. Mira que Yo he dado en tu poder al rey de Hai, su pueblo, su ciudad y su territorio.
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.”
Y harás con Hai y con su rey como hiciste con Jericó y su rey; solamente que tomaréis para vosotros sus despojos y sus ganados. Pon una emboscada contra la ciudad, al poniente de la misma.
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.
Se levantó Josué con toda la gente de guerra para subir contra Hai. Y escogió Josué treinta mil combatientes valerosos a los que despachó de noche.
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].
Les dio esta orden: “Mirad que os pongáis en emboscada contra la ciudad, a espaldas de ella, a poca distancia, y estad todos alerta.
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.
Yo y toda la gente que está conmigo, nos acercaremos a la ciudad, y cuando salgan a nuestro encuentro, como la vez primera, echaremos a huir delante de ellos.
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,
Cuando salgan tras nosotros, los alejaremos de la ciudad —porque se dirán: huyen de nosotros como la vez primera— y mientras seguimos huyendo delante de ellos,
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.
vosotros os levantaréis de la emboscada y os apoderaréis de la ciudad; y Yahvé, vuestro Dios, la entregará en vuestras manos.
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.”
Después de apoderaros de la ciudad, pegaréis fuego a ella. Como mandó Yahvé, así lo haréis. Ved, que yo os lo he mandado.”
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.
Así los despachó Josué; y marcharon al lugar de la emboscada para apostarse entre Betel y Hai, al occidente de Hai. Y Josué pasó aquella noche en medio del pueblo.
10 Early the next morning, Joshua gathered his soldiers together. Then he and the other Israeli leaders led them up to Ai.
Al día siguiente se levantó Josué muy de mañana, pasó revista a la gente y subió contra Hai marchando al frente del pueblo, él y los ancianos de Israel.
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.
Toda la gente de guerra que con él estaba subió, y acercándose llegaron frente a la ciudad, y acamparon al norte de Hai, mediando el valle entre ellos y Hai.
12 Then Joshua chose about 5,000 men and told them to go and hide just west of the city, between Ai and Bethel.
Después tomó unos cinco mil hombres y los puso en emboscada entre Betel y Hai, al occidente de la ciudad.
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.
Luego que el pueblo hubo tomado posición: todo el ejército al norte de la ciudad, y la retaguardia al occidente de la ciudad, avanzó Josué durante la noche al medio del valle.
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.
Cuando vio esto el rey de Hai, se levantó a toda prisa, y con él todo su pueblo, y salieron al encuentro de Israel para combatir, al lugar indicado frente al Arabá; mas no sabía que había contra él una emboscada detrás de la ciudad.
15 Joshua and the Israeli soldiers [who were with him] allowed the army of Ai to push them back. They ran toward the desert.
Y Josué y todo Israel se dejaron vencer por ellos, echando a huir camino del desierto;
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.
por lo cual se reunió todo el pueblo que había dentro de Hai para perseguirlos; y mientras perseguían a Josué, se alejaron de la ciudad.
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.
No quedó hombre en Hai, ni en Betel, que no hubiese salido en pos de Israel. Persiguieron a Israel, dejando abierta la ciudad.
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.
Entonces dijo Yahvé a Josué: “Extiende hacia Hai la lanza que tienes en tu mano, porque daré la ciudad en tu mano.” Y Josué extendió hacia la ciudad la lanza que tenía en su mano.
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.
Y apenas hubo extendido la mano, se levantaron los emboscados a toda prisa de su lugar, y corriendo entraron en la ciudad y la tomaron; y se apresuraron a pegar fuego a la ciudad.
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.
Cuando los hombres de Hai volvieron su rostro hacia atrás, y vieron que el humo de la ciudad iba subiendo hacia el cielo, ya no tuvieron posibilidad de huir, ni por un lado ni por el otro, ya que la gente (de Israel) que había huido hacia el desierto se volvió contra los perseguidores.
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.
Viendo Josué y todo Israel que la emboscada había tomado la ciudad, y que iba subiendo el humo de la ciudad, se volvieron y derrotaron a los hombres de Hai,
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.
en tanto que los otros salieron de la ciudad a su encuentro, de manera que (los de Hai) estaban en medio de los israelitas, teniendo de un lado a unos, y del otro a otros; los cuales los batieron hasta no quedarles ni sobreviviente ni fugitivo.
23 Then they seized the king of Ai and brought him to Joshua.
Prendieron también vivo al rey de Hai y le presentaron a Josué.
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.
Cuando Israel hubo matado a todos los habitantes de Hai, en el campo, en el desierto, adonde aquellos los habían perseguido, y todos ellos hasta el último hubieron sido pasados a cuchillo, se volvió todo Israel contra Hai y la pasó a filo de espada.
25 They killed 12,000 men and women.
El total de los que cayeron en aquel día fue de doce mil, entre hombres y mujeres, todos ellos gente de Hai.
26 Joshua continued to point his spear [LIT] toward Ai, until all the people in Ai had been killed.
Josué no retrajo su mano que tenía extendida con la lanza, hasta que hubo ejecutado el anatema en todos los habitantes de Hai.
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.
Israel tomó para sí solamente los ganados y los despojos de esta ciudad, según la orden que Yahvé había dado a Josué.
28 Joshua and his soldiers burned Ai city and caused it to become a pile of ruins. It is still like that today.
Luego Josué quemó a Hai y la convirtió para siempre en un montón de ruinas, en una desolación hasta el día de hoy.
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.
Al rey de Hai lo colgó de un madero hasta la tarde. Mas a la puesta del sol, Josué dio orden y bajaron el cadáver del madero. Lo arrojaron a la puerta de la ciudad, donde levantaron sobre él un gran montón de piedras, que subsiste hasta hoy.
30 Joshua [told his men to] build on Ebal Mountain an altar for Yahweh, the God [who is worshiped by] the Israeli people.
Entonces erigió Josué un altar a Yahvé, Dios de Israel, en el monte Ebal
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.
—como Moisés, siervo de Yahvé, lo había mandado a los hijos de Israel, conforme a lo escrito en el libro de la Ley de Moisés—, un altar de piedras sin labrar, sobre las cuales no había pasado instrumento de hierro. Ofrecieron sobre él holocaustos a Yahvé, y sacrificaron víctimas pacíficas.
32 As the Israelis watched, Joshua wrote on stones the laws that [Yahweh had given] to Moses previously.
Josué escribió allí sobre las piedras una copia de la Ley que Moisés había escrito en presencia de los hijos de Israel.
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.
Y todo Israel, sus ancianos, sus jefes y sus jueces, estaban en pie a ambos lados del Arca, frente a los sacerdotes levitas que llevaban el Arca de la Alianza de Yahvé, tanto los extranjeros como los hijos de Israel, la mitad de ellos dando frente al monte Garizim, y la otra mitad dando frente al monte Ebal, según la orden de bendecir al pueblo de Israel, que Moisés, siervo de Dios, había dado ya antes.
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].
Después de esto leyó todas las palabras de la Ley, la bendición y la maldición, conforme a todo lo escrito en el Libro de la Ley.
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.
De todo cuanto Moisés había escrito no hubo nada que no leyese Josué ante toda la asamblea de Israel, mujeres, niños y extranjeros que vivían en medio de ellos.
