Joshua 8
1 Yahweh said to Joshua, “Do not fear; do not be discouraged. Take with you all the people of war. Go up to Ai. See, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, his people, his city, and his land.
Kemudian berfirmanlah TUHAN kepada Yosua: "Janganlah takut dan janganlah tawar hati; bawalah seluruh tentara dan bersiaplah, majulah ke Ai. Ketahuilah, Aku serahkan kepadamu raja negeri Ai, rakyatnya, kotanya dan negerinya,
2 You will do to Ai and her king as you have done to Jericho and her king, except that you will take the plunder and the cattle for yourselves. Set an ambush behind the city.”
dan haruslah kaulakukan kepada Ai dan rajanya, seperti yang kaulakukan kepada Yerikho dan rajanya; hanya barang-barangnya dan ternaknya boleh kamu jarah. Suruhlah orang bersembunyi di belakang kota itu."
3 So Joshua got up and took all the men of war up to Ai. Then Joshua chose thirty thousand men—strong, courageous men—and he sent them out at night.
Lalu bersiaplah Yosua beserta seluruh tentara untuk pergi ke Ai. Yosua memilih tiga puluh ribu orang, pahlawan-pahlawan yang gagah perkasa, mereka disuruhnya pergi pada waktu malam
4 He commanded them, “Look, you will lie in ambush against the city, behind it. Do not go very far from the city, but all of you be ready.
dan kepada mereka diperintahkannya, katanya: "Ketahuilah, kamu harus bersembunyi di belakang kota itu untuk menyerangnya, janganlah terlalu jauh dari kota itu, dan bersiap-siaplah kamu sekalian.
5 I and all the men with me will approach the city, and when they come out to attack us, we will run away from them just as before.
Aku dan semua orang yang bersama-sama dengan aku akan mendekati kota itu; apabila mereka keluar menyerbu kami, seperti yang pertama kali, maka kami akan melarikan diri dari hadapan mereka.
6 They will come out after us until we have drawn them away from the city. They will say, 'They are running away from us as they did the last time.' So we will run away from them.
Jadi mereka akan keluar menyusul kami, sehingga kami memancing mereka jauh dari kota itu, sebab mereka akan berkata: orang-orang itu melarikan diri dari hadapan kita seperti yang pertama kali. Jika kami melarikan diri dari hadapan mereka,
7 Then you come up out of your place of hiding, and you will capture the city. Yahweh your God will give it into your hand.
maka kamu harus bangun dari tempat persembunyianmu itu untuk menduduki kota itu, dan TUHAN, Allahmu, akan menyerahkannya ke dalam tanganmu.
8 When you capture the city, you will set it on fire. You will do this when you obey the command given in the word of Yahweh. See, I have commanded you.”
Segera setelah kamu merebut kota itu, haruslah kamu membakarnya; sesuai dengan firman TUHAN kamu harus melakukan semuanya itu; ingatlah, itulah perintahku kepadamu."
9 Joshua sent them out, and they went to the place of ambush, and they hid between Bethel and Ai to the west of Ai. But Joshua slept that night among the people.
Demikianlah Yosua menyuruh mereka pergi, lalu berjalanlah mereka ke tempat persembunyian dan tinggal di antara Betel dan Ai, di sebelah barat Ai. Tetapi Yosua bermalam di tengah-tengah rakyat pada malam itu.
10 Joshua got up early in the morning and got his soldiers ready, Joshua and the elders of Israel, and they attacked the people of Ai.
Keesokan harinya Yosua bangun pagi-pagi, lalu diperiksanyalah barisan bangsa itu dan berjalanlah ia maju beserta para tua-tua orang Israel di depan bangsa itu ke Ai.
11 All the fighting men who were with him went up and approached the city. They came near the city and camped on the north side of Ai. Now there was a valley between them and Ai.
Juga seluruh tentara yang bersama-sama dengan dia berjalan maju; mereka maju mendekat, lalu sampai ke tentangan kota itu, kemudian berkemahlah mereka di sebelah utara Ai, sehingga lembah itu ada di antara mereka dan Ai.
12 He took about five thousand men and set them in ambush on the west side of the city between Bethel and Ai.
Yosua telah mengambil kira-kira lima ribu orang, lalu disuruhnya mereka bersembunyi di antara Betel dan Ai, di sebelah barat kota itu.
13 They positioned all the soldiers, the main army on the north side of the city, and the rear guard on the west side of the city. Joshua spent that night in the valley.
Beginilah rakyat itu diatur: seluruh tentara itu di sebelah utara kota dengan barisan belakang di sebelah barat kota. Pada malam itu berjalanlah Yosua melalui lembah itu.
14 It came about when the king of Ai saw it, he and his army got up early and rushed out to attack Israel at a certain place that was overlooking the Jordan River valley. He did not know that an ambush was waiting to attack from behind the city.
Pagi-pagi, ketika raja negeri Ai melihat hal itu, maka ia dan seluruh rakyatnya, orang-orang kota itu, segera keluar berperang, menyerbu orang Israel, ke lereng di seberang dataran itu; raja itu tidak tahu, bahwa ada orang bersembunyi di belakang kota.
15 Joshua and all Israel let themselves be defeated before them, and they fled toward the wilderness.
Yosua dan seluruh orang Israel itu berlaku seolah-olah dipukul mundur oleh mereka, lalu melarikan diri ke arah padang gurun.
16 All the people who were in the city were called together to go after them, and they went after Joshua and they were drawn away from the city.
Sebab itu semua orang yang ada di kota dikerahkan untuk mengejar orang Israel. Maka mereka mengejar Yosua, sehingga makin jauhlah mereka terpancing dari kota.
17 There was not a man left in Ai and Bethel who had not gone out to pursue Israel. They abandoned the city and left it open as they pursued Israel.
Seorangpun tidak tertinggal lagi di Ai dan Betel yang tidak keluar memburu orang Israel. Mereka meninggalkan kota itu terbuka, karena mereka mengejar orang Israel.
18 Yahweh said to Joshua, “Point that spear in your hand toward Ai, for I will give Ai into your hand.” Joshua held out the spear that was in his hand toward the city.
Lalu berfirmanlah TUHAN kepada Yosua: "Acungkanlah lembing yang ada di tanganmu ke arah Ai, sebab Aku menyerahkan kota itu ke dalam tanganmu." Maka Yosua mengacungkan lembing yang di tangannya ke arah kota itu.
19 The soldiers hiding in ambush quickly rushed out of their place as he reached out with his hand. They ran and entered the city and captured it. They quickly set the city on fire.
Ketika diacungkannya tangannya, maka segeralah bangun orang-orang yang bersembunyi itu dari tempatnya, mereka berlari memasuki kota, merebutnya, lalu segera membakar kota itu.
20 The men of Ai turned and looked back. They saw the smoke from the city rising into the sky, and they could not escape this way or that. For the Israelite soldiers who had fled into the wilderness now turned back to face those who were pursuing them.
Ketika orang Ai berpaling menoleh ke belakang, tampaklah asap kota itu naik membubung ke langit; mereka tidak sempat melarikan diri ke manapun juga, sebab rakyat yang tadinya lari ke padang gurun, berbalik melawan pengejar-pengejarnya.
21 When Joshua and all Israel saw the ambush had captured the city with the smoke rising, they turned around and killed the men of Ai.
Ketika Yosua dan seluruh Israel melihat, bahwa orang-orang yang bersembunyi itu telah merebut kota dan bahwa asap kota itu naik membubung, berbaliklah mereka, lalu menewaskan orang-orang Ai.
22 The other soldiers of Israel, those who had gone in the city, came out to attack them. So the men of Ai were caught between the armies of Israel, some on this side and some on that side. Israel attacked the men of Ai; none of them survived or escaped.
Sementara itu juga keluar orang-orang Israel yang lain dari dalam kota menyerbu orang-orang Ai, sehingga terjepit di tengah-tengah orang Israel itu, yang ini dari sini dan yang itu dari sana; orang-orang Ai ditewaskan, sehingga seorangpun dari mereka tidak ada yang dibiarkan terlepas atau luput.
23 They kept the king of Ai, whom they captured alive, and they brought him to Joshua.
Tetapi raja Ai ditangkap mereka hidup-hidup dan dihadapkan kepada Yosua.
24 It came about when Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field near the wilderness where they pursued them, and when all of them, to the very last one, had fallen by the edge of the sword, all Israel returned to Ai. They attacked it with the edge of the sword.
Segera sesudah orang Israel selesai membunuh seluruh penduduk kota Ai di padang terbuka ke mana orang Israel mengejar mereka, dan orang-orang ini semuanya tewas oleh mata pedang sampai orang yang penghabisan, maka seluruh Israel kembali ke Ai dan memukul kota itu dengan mata pedang.
25 All those who fell that day, both men and women, were twelve thousand, all the people of Ai.
Jumlah semua orang yang tewas pada hari itu, baik laki-laki maupun perempuan, ada dua belas ribu orang, semuanya orang Ai.
26 Joshua did not draw back his hand with which he had reached out while holding his spear, until he had completely destroyed all the people of Ai.
Dan Yosua tidak menarik tangannya yang mengacungkan lembing itu, sebelum seluruh penduduk kota Ai ditumpasnya.
27 Israel took only the livestock and the plunder from the city for themselves, just as Yahweh had commanded Joshua.
Hanya ternak dan barang-barang kota itu dijarah oleh orang Israel, sesuai dengan firman TUHAN, yang diperintahkan-Nya kepada Yosua.
28 Joshua burned Ai and turned it into a heap of ruins forever. It is an abandoned place to this day.
Yosua membakar Ai dan membuatnya menjadi timbunan puing untuk selama-lamanya, menjadi tempat yang tandus sampai sekarang.
29 He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening. When the sun was going down, Joshua gave the command and they took the king's body down from the tree and threw it in front of the city gates. There they set up a great heap of stones on top of it. That heap remains there to this day.
Dan raja Ai digantungnya pada sebuah tiang sampai petang. Ketika matahari terbenam, Yosua memerintahkan orang menurunkan mayat itu dari tiang, lalu dilemparkan di depan pintu gerbang kota, kemudian didirikan oranglah di atasnya suatu timbunan batu yang besar, yang masih ada sampai sekarang.
30 Then Joshua built an altar to Yahweh, the God of Israel, on Mount Ebal,
Pada waktu itulah Yosua mendirikan mezbah di gunung Ebal bagi TUHAN, Allah Israel,
31 just as Moses the servant of Yahweh had commanded the people of Israel, as it was written in the Book of the Law of Moses: “An altar from uncut stones, on which no one has wielded an iron tool.” He offered on the altar burnt offerings to Yahweh, and they sacrificed peace offerings.
seperti yang diperintahkan Musa, hamba TUHAN, kepada orang Israel, menurut apa yang tertulis dalam kitab hukum Musa: suatu mezbah dari batu-batu yang tidak dipahat, yang tidak diolah dengan perkakas besi apapun. Di atasnyalah mereka mempersembahkan korban bakaran kepada TUHAN dan mengorbankan korban keselamatan.
32 There, in the presence of the people of Israel, he wrote on the stones a copy of the law of Moses.
Dan di sanalah di atas batu-batu itu, dituliskan Yosua salinan hukum Musa, yang dituliskannya di depan orang Israel.
33 All Israel, their elders, officers, and their judges stood on both sides of the ark before the priests and Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of Yahweh—the foreigner as well as the native born—half of them stood in front of Mount Gerizim and the other half stood in front of Mount Ebal. They blessed the people of Israel, just as Moses the servant of Yahweh had commanded them at first.
Seluruh orang Israel, para tua-tuanya, para pengatur pasukannya dan para hakimnya berdiri sebelah-menyebelah tabut, berhadapan dengan para imam yang memang suku Lewi, para pengangkat tabut perjanjian TUHAN itu, baik pendatang maupun anak negeri, setengahnya menghadap ke gunung Gerizim dan setengahnya lagi menghadap ke gunung Ebal, seperti yang dahulu diperintahkan oleh Musa, hamba TUHAN, apabila orang memberkati bangsa Israel.
34 Afterward, Joshua read all the words of the law, the blessings and the curses, just as they had been written in the book of the law.
Sesudah itu dibacakannyalah segala perkataan hukum Taurat, berkatnya dan kutuknya, sesuai dengan segala apa yang tertulis dalam kitab hukum.
35 There was not one word from all that Moses commanded that Joshua did not read in front of the assembly of Israel, including the women, the little children, and the foreigners who lived among them.
Tidak ada sepatah katapun dari segala apa yang diperintahkan Musa yang tidak dibacakan oleh Yosua kepada seluruh jemaah Israel dan kepada perempuan-perempuan dan anak-anak dan kepada pendatang yang ikut serta.
