< Yoshuwa 8 >

1 Sai Ubangiji ya ce wa Yoshuwa, “Kada ka ji tsoro; kada ka karaya. Ka ɗauki dukan sojojin ku kai wa Ai hari, gama na ba ka nasara a kan sarkin Ai, mutanensa, birninsa da kuma ƙasarsa.
And YHWH says to Joshua, “Do not fear, nor be frightened, take with you all the people of war, and rise, go up to Ai; see, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land,
2 Za ku yi wa Ai yadda kuka yi wa Yeriko da sarkinta, sai dai za ku kwashe ganima da dabbobinta su zama naku. Ku yi kwanto a bayan birnin.”
and you have done to Ai and to her king as you have done to Jericho and to her king; only spoil its spoil and its livestock for yourselves; for you set an ambush for the city at its rear.”
3 Yoshuwa da dukan sojojin suka fita su kai wa Ai hari. Sai ya zaɓi sojojinsa waɗanda suka fi saura duka iya yaƙi guda dubu talatin, ya tura su da dad dare
And Joshua rises, and all the people of war, to go up to Ai, and Joshua chooses thirty thousand men, mighty men of valor, and sends them away by night,
4 ya ba su umarni ya ce, “Ku ji da kyau, za ku yi kwanto a bayan birnin, kada ku yi nisa da birnin. Kowannenku yă kasance a faɗake.
and commands them, saying, “See, you are ones lying in wait against the city, at the rear of the city, you do not go very far off from the city, and all of you have been prepared,
5 Ni da waɗanda suke tare da ni za mu nufi birnin, a lokacin da mutanen suka taso mana yadda suka yi dā, sai mu guje musu.
and I and all the people who [are] with me draw near to the city, and it has come to pass, when they come out to meet us as at the first, and we have fled before them,
6 Za su bi mu har su yi nisa da birnin, gama za su ce, ‘Suna gudu kamar yadda suka yi dā.’ Saboda haka lokacin da muka guje musu,
and they have come out after us until we have drawn them out of the city, for they say, They are fleeing before us as at the first, and we have fled before them,
7 sai ku tashi daga inda kuka yi kwanto, ku ci birnin da yaƙi, Ubangiji Allahnku zai ba da shi a hannunku.
and you rise from the ambush, and have occupied the city, and your God YHWH has given it into your hand;
8 Lokacin da kuka ƙwace birnin, sai ku sa masa wuta. Ku yi abin da Ubangiji ya umarta. Ku tabbata kun yi abubuwan da na ce.”
and it has been, when you capture the city, you burn the city with fire, you do according to the word of YHWH, see, I have commanded you.”
9 Sai Yoshuwa ya sallame su, suka kuma tafi wurin da za su yi kwanto, suka kwanta suna fako tsakanin Betel da Ai, yamma da Ai, amma Yoshuwa ya kwana tare da mutanen.
And Joshua sends them away, and they go to the ambush, and abide between Bethel and Ai, on the west of Ai; and Joshua lodges on that night in the midst of the people.
10 Kashegari da sassafe Yoshuwa ya tattara mutanensa, sai shi da shugabannin Isra’ilawa suka sha gaba suka taka zuwa Ai.
And Joshua rises early in the morning, and inspects the people, and goes up, he and [the] elderly of Israel, before the people to Ai;
11 Dukan sojojin da suke tare da shi suka nufi birnin, da suka kai kuwa sai suka kafa sansaninsu a arewancin Ai. Tsakaninsu da Ai akwai kwari.
and all the people of war who [are] with him have gone up, and draw near and come in before the city, and encamp on the north of Ai; and the valley [is] between him and Ai.
12 Yoshuwa ya sa mutum dubu biyar suka yi kwanto tsakanin Betel da Ai, a yammancin birnin.
And he takes about five thousand men, and sets them [for] an ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west of the city;
13 Mutanen suka kafa sansaninsu arewa da birnin, sansani na’yan kwanto kuwa yana yamma da birnin, amma Yoshuwa ya kwana a kwarin.
and they set the people, all the camp which [is] on the north of the city, and its rear on the west of the city, and that night Joshua goes on into the midst of the valley.
14 Sa’ad da sarkin Ai ya ga haka, shi da duk mutanen birnin suka hanzarta da sassafe don su gamu da Isra’ilawa, su yi yaƙi da su a wani wurin da yake fuskantar Araba. Amma bai san cewa an yi masa kwanto a bayan birnin ba.
And it comes to pass, when the king of Ai sees [it], that he hurries, and rises early, and the men of the city go out to meet Israel for battle, he and all his people, at the appointed time, at the front of the plain, and he has not known that an ambush [is] against him, on the rear of the city.
15 Yoshuwa da duk Isra’ilawa suka bari aka fafare su, sai suka gudu zuwa cikin jeji.
And Joshua and all Israel [seem] struck before them, and flee the way of the wilderness,
16 Aka kira duk mazan Ai su fafare su, suka kuwa fafari Yoshuwa, aka yaudare su suka yi nisa da birnin.
and all the people who [are] in the city are called to pursue after them, and they pursue after Joshua, and are drawn away out of the city,
17 Ba namijin da ya rage a Ai ko Betel da bai fita don yă fafari Isra’ilawa ba. Suka bar birnin a buɗe, suka tafi fafarar Isra’ilawa.
and there has not been a man left in Ai and Bethel who has not gone out after Israel, and they leave the city open, and pursue after Israel.
18 Sai Ubangiji ya ce wa Yoshuwa, “Ka riƙe māshin da yake hannunka ka nuna wajen Ai, gama zan ba da birnin a hannunka.” Yoshuwa kuwa ya miƙa māshin ta wajen Ai.
And YHWH says to Joshua, “Stretch out with the javelin which [is] in your hand toward Ai, for I give it into your hand”; and Joshua stretches out with the javelin which [is] in his hand toward the city,
19 Da yin haka kuwa sai mutanen da suka yi kwanto suka tashi nan da nan daga inda suke, suka nufi birnin a guje, suka shiga suka ci birnin da yaƙi, suka kuma cinna mata wuta da sauri.
and the ambush has risen [with] haste, out of its place, and they run at the stretching out of his hand, and go into the city, and capture it, and hurry, and burn the city with fire.
20 Mutanen Ai suka juya suka ga hayaƙin birninsu yana tashi sama, amma ba yadda za su iya tsira ta ko’ina, gama Isra’ilawan da suke gudu zuwa cikin jeji suka juya suka fara fafarar waɗanda suke fafararsu.
And the men of Ai look behind them, and see, and behold, the smoke of the city has gone up to the heavens, and there has not been power in them to flee here and there—and the people who are fleeing to the wilderness have turned against the pursuer—
21 Lokacin da Yoshuwa da dukan Isra’ilawa suka ga waɗanda suka yi kwanto sun ci birnin da yaƙi, hayaƙi kuwa ya cika birnin, sai suka juya suka kai wa mutanen Ai hari.
and Joshua and all Israel have seen that the ambush has captured the city, and that the smoke of the city has gone up, and they turn back and strike the men of Ai;
22 Mutanen da suka yi kwanto su ma suka fito daga birnin suka tasar musu, ya zama an kama su a tsakiya, ga Isra’ilawa daga kowane gefe. Isra’ilawa kuwa suka karkashe su duka ba su bar wani da rai ba, ba kuma wanda ya tsere.
and these have come out from the city to meet them, and they are in the midst of Israel, some on this [side], and some on that [side], and they strike them until he has not left a remnant and escaped one to them;
23 Amma suka tafi da sarkin Ai da rai suka kawo shi wurin Yoshuwa.
and they have caught the king of Ai alive, and bring him near to Joshua.
24 Da Isra’ilawa suka gama kashe duk mutanen Ai a filaye da kuma a cikin jeji inda suka fafare su, kuma da aka karkashe kowane mutumin Ai da takobi sai dukan Isra’ilawa suka koma Ai suka karkashe duk waɗanda suke cikinsa.
And it comes to pass, at Israel’s finishing to slay all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they pursued them (and all of them fall by the mouth of the sword until their consumption), that all of Israel turns back to Ai, and strikes it by the mouth of the sword;
25 A ranan nan, dukan mutanen Ai da aka kashe, mutum dubu goma sha biyu ne maza da mata.
and all who fall during the day, of men and of women, are twelve thousand—all men of Ai.
26 Gama Yoshuwa bai janye hannunsa da yake riƙe da māshinsa ba har sai da ya hallaka dukan mazaunan Ai.
And Joshua has not brought back his hand which he stretched out with the javelin until he has devoted all the inhabitants of Ai;
27 Amma Isra’ilawa suka kwashe ganima da dabbobin birnin nan yadda Ubangiji ya umarci Yoshuwa.
only the livestock and the spoil of that city has Israel spoiled for themselves, according to the word of YHWH which He commanded Joshua.
28 Yoshuwa kuwa ya ƙone Ai, ya mai da ita tarin ƙasa, ta zama kufai har wa yau.
And Joshua burns Ai, and makes it a continuous heap—a desolation to this day;
29 Ya rataye sarkin Ai a kan itace, ya bar shi a can har yamma. Da rana ta fāɗi, Yoshuwa ya umarta a ɗauke gawar sarkin a jefa a gaban ƙofar birnin. Suka kuma tara manyan duwatsu a kan gawar, tsibin na nan har wa yau.
and he has hanged the king of Ai on the tree until evening, and at the going in of the sun Joshua has commanded, and they take down his carcass from the tree, and cast it to the opening of the gate of the city, and raise a great heap of stones over it until this day.
30 Yoshuwa kuwa ya yi wa Ubangiji, Allah na Isra’ila bagade a Dutsen Ebal,
Then Joshua builds an altar to YHWH, God of Israel, in Mount Ebal,
31 kamar yadda Musa bawan Ubangiji ya umarci Isra’ilawa. Ya gina bisa ga abin da yake a rubuce a cikin Littafin Dokoki na Musa, bagade na duwatsun da ba a sassaƙa su ba, waɗanda ba wani ƙarfen da ya taɓa su. Suka miƙa wa Ubangiji hadayu na ƙonawa da hadayu na salama a kai.
as Moses, servant of YHWH, commanded the sons of Israel, as it is written in the Scroll of the Law of Moses—an altar of whole stones, over which he has not waved iron—and they cause burnt-offerings to go up on it to YHWH, and sacrifice peace-offerings;
32 A can, a gaban Isra’ilawa, Yoshuwa ya rubuta dokokin Musa a kan duwatsun.
and he writes there on the stones a copy of the Law of Moses, which he has written in the presence of the sons of Israel.
33 Sai Isra’ilawa duka, da baƙi, da haifaffun gida, da dattawansu, da shugabanninsu, da alƙalansu, suka tsaya a gefe-gefen akwatin alkawarin Ubangiji, suna fuskantar waɗanda suke ɗauke da shi, wato, firistoci waɗanda su ne Lawiyawa. Rabin mutanen suka tsaya a gaban Dutsen Gerizim, rabinsu kuma suka tsaya a gaban Dutsen Ebal, kamar yadda Musa bawan Ubangiji ya riga ya umarta, cewa su sa wa mutanen Isra’ilawa albarka.
And all Israel, and its elderly, and authorities, and his judges, are standing on this [side] and on that [side] of the Ark, before the priests, the Levites, carrying the Ark of the Covenant of YHWH, the sojourner as well as the native, half of them in front of Mount Gerizim, and the half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses servant of YHWH had commanded to bless the people of Israel at the first.
34 Bayan haka, Yoshuwa ya karanta duk abin da yake a cikin Dokoki, albarku da la’anoni, kamar yadda suke a rubuce a cikin Littafin Dokoki.
And afterward he has proclaimed all the words of the Law, the blessing and the reviling, according to all that is written in the Scroll of the Law;
35 Babu wata kalmar da Musa ya umarta da Yoshuwa bai karanta wa dukan taron Isra’ilawa ba, haɗe da mata, da yara, da baƙin da suke zama tare da su.
there has not been a thing of all that Moses commanded which Joshua has not proclaimed before all the assembly of Israel, and the women, and the infants, and the sojourner who is going in their midst.

< Yoshuwa 8 >