Ἰησοῦς Nαυῆ 8
1 Και είπε Κύριος προς τον Ιησούν, Μη φοβηθής μηδέ δειλιάσης· λάβε μετά σου πάντας τους πολεμικούς άνδρας, και σηκωθείς ανάβα εις Γαί· ιδού, εγώ παρέδωκα εις την χείρα σου; τον βασιλέα της Γαί και τον λαόν αυτού και την πόλιν αυτού και την γην αυτού·
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.
2 και θέλεις κάμει εις την Γαί και εις τον βασιλέα αυτής, καθώς έκαμες εις την Ιεριχώ και εις τον βασιλέα αυτής· μόνον τα λάφυρα αυτής και τα κτήνη αυτής θέλετε λαφυραγωγήσει εις εαυτούς· στήσον ενέδραν κατά της πόλεως όπισθεν αυτής.
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.”
3 Και εσηκώθη ο Ιησούς και πας ο λαός ο πολεμιστής, διά να αναβώσιν εις την Γαί· και εξέλεξεν ο Ιησούς τριάκοντα χιλιάδας άνδρας δυνατούς εν ισχύϊ και εξαπέστειλεν αυτούς διά νυκτός,
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.
4 και προσέταξεν εις αυτούς λέγων, Ιδού, σεις θέλετε ενεδρεύει κατά της πόλεως όπισθεν αυτής· μη απομακρυνθήτε πολύ από της πόλεως, και να ήσθε πάντες έτοιμοι·
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].
5 εγώ δε και πας ο λαός ο μετ' εμού θέλομεν πλησιάσει εις την πόλιν· και όταν εξέλθωσιν εναντίον ημών, καθώς πρότερον, τότε ημείς θέλομεν φύγει απ' έμπροσθεν αυτών·
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.
6 και θέλουσιν εξέλθει κατόπιν ημών, εωσού απομακρύνωμεν αυτούς από της πόλεως, διότι θέλουσιν ειπεί, Αυτοί φεύγουσιν απ' έμπροσθεν ημών, καθώς πρότερον· και ημείς θέλομεν φύγει απ' έμπροσθεν αυτών·
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,
7 τότε σεις σηκωθέντες εκ της ενέδρας, θέλετε κυριεύσει την πόλιν· διότι Κύριος ο Θεός σας θέλει παραδώσει αυτήν εις την χείρα σας·
[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.
8 και αφού κυριεύσητε την πόλιν, θέλετε καύσει την πόλιν εν πυρί· κατά την προσταγήν του Κυρίου θέλετε κάμει· ιδού, προσέταξα εις εσάς.
After you capture the city, burn it. Do what Yahweh has commanded us to do. Those are the orders I am giving to you.”
9 Ο Ιησούς λοιπόν εξαπέστειλεν αυτούς, και υπήγον εις ενέδραν και εκάθισαν μεταξύ Βαιθήλ και Γαί, προς το δυτικόν μέρος της Γαί· ο δε Ιησούς έμεινε την νύκτα εκείνην εν τω μέσω του λαού.
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.
10 Και εξεγερθείς ο Ιησούς το πρωΐ, επεσκέφθη τον λαόν, και ανέβη αυτός και οι πρεσβύτεροι του Ισραήλ, έμπροσθεν του λαού προς Γαί.
Early the next morning, Joshua gathered his soldiers together. Then he and the other Israeli leaders led them up to Ai.
11 Και πας ο λαός ο πολεμιστής, ο μετ' αυτού, ανέβη και επλησίασε και ήλθε κατέναντι της πόλεως και εστρατοπέδευσε κατά το βόρειον μέρος της Γαί· ήτο δε κοιλάς μεταξύ αυτών και της Γαί.
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.
12 Και λαβών έως πέντε χιλιάδας ανδρών, εκάθισεν αυτούς εις ενέδραν μεταξύ Βαιθήλ και Γαί, προς το δυτικόν μέρος της πόλεως.
Then Joshua chose about 5,000 men and told them to go and hide just west of the city, between Ai and Bethel.
13 Και αφού διέταξαν τον λαόν, άπαν το στράτευμα το προς βορράν της πόλεως και την ενέδραν αυτού προς δυσμάς της πόλεως, υπήγεν ο Ιησούς εκείνην την νύκτα εις το μέσον της κοιλάδος.
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 Και ως είδεν ο βασιλεύς της Γαί, αυτός και πας ο λαός αυτού, οι άνδρες της πόλεως, έσπευσαν και εξηγέρθησαν πρωΐ και εξήλθον εις συνάντησιν του Ισραήλ προς μάχην, εις ωρισμένην ώραν, επί την πεδιάδα· πλην αυτός δεν ήξευρεν ότι ήτο ένεδρα κατ' αυτού όπισθεν της πόλεως.
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.
15 Και ο Ιησούς και πας ο Ισραήλ προσεποιήθησαν ότι κατετροπώθησαν έμπροσθεν αυτών, και έφευγον διά της οδού της ερήμου.
Joshua and the Israeli soldiers [who were with him] allowed the army of Ai to push them back. They ran toward the desert.
16 Και συνεκαλέσθησαν πας ο λαός ο εν Γαί, διά να καταδιώξωσιν αυτούς· και κατεδίωξαν τον Ιησούν και απεμακρύνθησαν από της πόλεως.
The men in Ai were ordered to chase after Joshua and his men. So they left the city and started to pursue the Israelis.
17 Και δεν απέμεινεν άνθρωπος εν Γαί και εν Βαιθήλ, όστις δεν εξήλθε κατόπιν του Ισραήλ· και αφήκαν ανοικτήν την πόλιν, και κατεδίωκον τον Ισραήλ.
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.
18 Και είπε Κύριος προς τον Ιησούν, Έκτεινον την λόγχην, την εν τη χειρί σου, προς την Γαί· διότι θέλω παραδώσει αυτήν εις την χείρα σου. Και εξέτεινεν ο Ιησούς την λόγχην, την εν τη χειρί αυτού, προς την πόλιν.
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.
19 Και η ενέδρα εσηκώθη μετά σπουδής από της θέσεως αυτής, και ώρμησαν ευθύς ότε εξέτεινε την χείρα αυτού· και εισήλθον εις την πόλιν και εκυρίευσαν αυτήν, και σπεύσαντες έκαυσαν την πόλιν εκ πυρί.
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.
20 Και ότε περιέβλεψαν εις τα οπίσω αυτών οι άνδρες της Γαί, είδον, και ιδού, ανέβαινεν ο καπνός της πόλεως προς τον ουρανόν, και δεν ηδύναντο να φύγωσιν εδώ και εκεί· επειδή ο λαός ο φεύγων προς την έρημον εστράφησαν οπίσω εναντίον των καταδιωκόντων.
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.
21 Ο δε Ιησούς και πας ο Ισραήλ, ιδόντες ότι η ενέδρα είχε κυριεύσει την πόλιν και ότι ανέβαινεν ο καπνός της πόλεως, εστράφησαν οπίσω και επάταξαν τους άνδρας της Γαί.
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 Και οι άλλοι εξήλθον εκ της πόλεως εναντίον αυτών, ώστε ήσαν εν τω μέσω του Ισραήλ εντεύθεν και εκείθεν· και επάταξαν αυτούς, ώστε δεν αφήκαν ουδένα εξ αυτών μείναντα ή διαφυγόντα.
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.
23 Τον δε βασιλέα της Γαί συνέλαβον ζώντα και έφεραν αυτόν προς τον Ιησούν.
Then they seized the king of Ai and brought him to Joshua.
24 Και αφού ο Ισραήλ ετελείωσε φονεύων πάντας τους κατοίκους της Γαί εν τη πεδιάδι εκ τη ερήμω, όπου κατεδίωκον αυτούς, και έπεσον πάντες εν στόματι μαχαίρας, εωσού εξωλοθρεύθησαν, επέστρεψε πας ο Ισραήλ εις την Γαί και επάταξαν αυτήν εν στόματι μαχαίρας.
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.
25 Και πάντες οι πεσόντες εν τη ημέρα εκείνη, άνδρες τε και γυναίκες, ήσαν δώδεκα χιλιάδες, πάντες οι άνθρωποι της Γαί.
They killed 12,000 men and women.
26 Και δεν έσυρεν ο Ιησούς οπίσω την χείρα αυτού, την οποίαν εξέτεινε με την λόγχην, εωσού εξωλόθρευσε πάντας τους κατοίκους της Γαί.
Joshua continued to point his spear [LIT] toward Ai, until all the people in Ai had been killed.
27 Μόνον τα κτήνη και τα λάφυρα της πόλεως εκείνης ελαφυραγώγησεν ο Ισραήλ εις εαυτόν, κατά τον λόγον του Κυρίου, τον οποίον προσέταξεν εις τον Ιησούν.
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.
28 Και κατέκαυσεν ο Ιησούς την Γαί, και κατέστησεν αυτήν σωρόν παντοτεινόν αοίκητον έως της ημέρας ταύτης.
Joshua and his soldiers burned Ai city and caused it to become a pile of ruins. It is still like that today.
29 Τον δε βασιλέα της Γαί εκρέμασεν επί ξύλου έως εσπέρας· και ως έδυσεν ο ήλιος, προσέταξεν ο Ιησούς και κατεβίβασαν το πτώμα αυτού από του ξύλου, και έρριψαν αυτό εις την είσοδον της πύλης της πόλεως, και ύψωσαν επ' αυτού σωρόν λίθων μέγαν, όστις μένει έως της σήμερον.
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.
30 Τότε ωκοδόμησεν ο Ιησούς θυσιαστήριον εις Κύριον τον Θεόν του Ισραήλ επί το όρος Εβάλ,
Joshua [told his men to] build on Ebal Mountain an altar for Yahweh, the God [who is worshiped by] the Israeli people.
31 καθώς ο Μωϋσής ο δούλος του Κυρίου προσέταξε τους υιούς Ισραήλ, κατά το γεγραμμένον εν τω βιβλίω του νόμου του Μωϋσέως, θυσιαστήριον εκ λίθων ολοκλήρων, επί των οποίων σίδηρος δεν επεβλήθη· και προσέφεραν επ' αυτό ολοκαύτωματα προς τον Κύριον και εθυσίασαν ειρηνικάς προσφοράς.
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.
32 Και έγραψεν εκεί επί τους λίθους το αντίγραφον του νόμου του Μωϋσέως, τον οποίον είχε γράψει ενώπιον των υιών Ισραήλ.
As the Israelis watched, Joshua wrote on stones the laws that [Yahweh had given] to Moses previously.
33 Και πας ο Ισραήλ και οι πρεσβύτεροι αυτών και οι άρχοντες και οι κριταί αυτών εστάθησαν εντεύθεν και εντεύθεν της κιβωτού απέναντι των ιερέων των Λευϊτών, των βασταζόντων την κιβωτόν της διαθήκης του Κυρίου, και ο ξένος και ο αυτόχθων· το ήμισυ αυτών προς το όρος Γαριζίν και το ήμισυ αυτών προς το όρος Εβάλ· καθώς πρότερον προσέταξεν ο Μωϋσής ο δούλος του Κυρίου, διά να ευλογήσωσι τον λαόν του Ισραήλ.
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.
34 Και μετά ταύτα ανέγνωσε πάντας τους λόγους του νόμου, τας ευλογίας και τας κατάρας, κατά πάντα τα γεγραμμένα εν τω βιβλίω του νόμου.
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].
35 Δεν ήτο λόγος εκ πάντων όσα προσέταξεν ο Μωϋσής, τον οποίον ο Ιησούς δεν ανέγνωσεν ενώπιον πάσης της συναγωγής του Ισραήλ, μετά των γυναικών και των παιδίων και των ξένων των παρευρισκομένων μεταξύ αυτών.
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.
