Jozue 8
1 Yawe alobaki na Jozue: « Kobanga te mpe kolemba nzoto te. Kamata elongo na yo basoda nyonso, mata mpe bundisa engumba Ayi. Pamba te nasili kokaba na maboko na yo: mokonzi ya Ayi, bato na ye, engumba na ye, mpe mokili na ye.
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 Okosala engumba Ayi mpe mokonzi na yango ndenge osalaki Jeriko mpe mokonzi na yango; kasi bokoki kozwa mpo na bino lokola bomengo ya bitumba, biloko mpe bibwele na yango. Bomba basoda na sima ya engumba. »
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 Jozue atelemaki elongo na basoda nyonso mpo na kobundisa engumba Ayi. Aponaki bilombe ya bitumba nkoto tuku misato mpe atindaki bango na butu.
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 Apesaki bango mitindo oyo: « Bobombama na sima ya engumba oyo; bozala penza mosika mingi te na engumba, kasi bozala pene.
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 Ngai mpe bato nyonso oyo bazali elongo na ngai, tokopusana pene ya engumba. Tango bakobima mpo na kobundisa biso lokola na mbala oyo eleki, tokokima liboso na bango.
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 Bakolanda biso, mpe tokobenda bango mosika ya engumba, pamba te bakoloba: ‹ Bazali kokima liboso na biso lokola na mbala oyo eleki, › mpe tokokima liboso na bango.
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 Boye, bino bokobima wuta na bisika oyo bokobombama mpe bokobotola engumba. Yawe, Nzambe na bino, akabi yango na maboko na bino.
and you rise from the ambush, and have occupied the city, and your God YHWH has given it into your hand;
8 Tango bokobotola engumba, botia yango moto mpe bosala ndenge Yawe alobaki. »
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 Jozue atindaki bango, mpe bakendeki na esika oyo basengelaki kobombama. Babombamaki na kati-kati ya Beteli mpe Ayi, na ngambo ya weste ya Ayi. Jozue alekisaki butu wana elongo na bana ya Isalaele.
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 Jozue alamukaki na tongo-tongo penza mpe atalaki ndenge nini basoda na ye bamilengelaki. Sima na yango, alekaki liboso elongo na bakambi ya Isalaele mpo na kokende kobundisa engumba Ayi.
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 Basoda na ye nyonso bapusanaki kino na liboso ya engumba mpe batongaki molako na bango na ngambo ya nor ya Ayi, bongo lubwaku ezalaki kati na bango mpe Ayi.
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 Jozue azwaki basoda nkoto mitano mpe abombaki bango na kati-kati ya Beteli mpe Ayi, na ngambo ya weste ya engumba.
And he takes about five thousand men, and sets them [for] an ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west of the city;
13 Mampinga ya basoda oyo bazalaka na liboso, na bitumba, batongaki molako na bango na ngambo ya nor ya engumba; mpe basoda oyo batikalaka na sima, na ngambo ya weste ya engumba. Na butu wana, Jozue akendeki na kati-kati ya etando.
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 Tango mokonzi ya Ayi amonaki bongo, ye elongo na bato na ye nyonso, bavandi ya engumba, batelemaki na lombangu mpe babimaki mpo na kobundisa Isalaele na esika oyo nzela ekutana, liboso ya Araba. Ayebaki te ete basoda mosusu babombamaki na sima ya engumba.
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 Jozue mpe bana nyonso ya Isalaele bakosaki lokola bato oyo basili kokweya na bitumba mpe bakimaki na ngambo ya esobe.
And Joshua and all Israel [seem] struck before them, and flee the way of the wilderness,
16 Babelelaki bato nyonso ya Ayi mpo ete balanda bango. Boye, balandaki Jozue mpe bakendeki mosika ya engumba.
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 Kati na Ayi mpe Beteli, mobali moko te atikalaki oyo azangaki kolanda Isalaele. Batikaki engumba ya kofungwama, wana bazalaki kolanda Isalaele.
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 Yawe alobaki na Jozue: « Sembola na ngambo ya Ayi likonga oyo osimbi na loboko, pamba te nalingi kokaba yango na maboko na yo. » Boye Jozue asembolaki na ngambo ya engumba likonga oyo ezalaki na loboko na ye.
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 Tango kaka asembolaki loboko, basoda oyo babombamaki babimaki na lombangu wuta na bisika oyo babombamaki, bakotaki na engumba, babotolaki yango mpe batiaki yango moto.
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 Tango bato ya Ayi batalaki na sima, bamonaki milinga komata na likolo wuta na engumba; moko te akokaki lisusu kokima na ngambo moko to na ngambo mosusu. Bana ya Isalaele oyo bazalaki kokima na esobe babalukelaki bato oyo bazalaki kolanda bango.
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 Boye, tango Jozue mpe bana nyonso ya Isalaele bamonaki ete basoda oyo babombamaki bazwi engumba mpe milinga ezali komata wuta na engumba, bazongaki mpe babomaki bato ya Ayi.
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 Basoda ya Isalaele oyo babombamaki, babimaki na engumba mpo na kobundisa bango. Bato ya Ayi bakomaki na kati-kati ya basoda ya Isalaele oyo bazalaki, bamoko na ngambo moko, mpe bamosusu, na ngambo mosusu. Basoda ya Isalaele basilisaki koboma bango nyonso, ata moko te atikalaki na bomoi, mpe ata moko te akimaki.
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 Kasi bakangaki ya bomoi mokonzi ya Ayi mpe bamemaki ye epai ya Jozue.
and they have caught the king of Ai alive, and bring him near to Joshua.
24 Tango Isalaele asilisaki koboma mibali nyonso ya Ayi, kati na zamba mpe kati na esobe epai wapi balandaki bango, mpe wana bango nyonso basilaki kokufa na mopanga, bana nyonso ya Isalaele bazongaki na Ayi mpe babomaki na mopanga bato nyonso oyo bazalaki kuna.
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 Motango ya bato nyonso oyo bakufaki na mokolo wana, basi mpe mibali, ezalaki nkoto zomi na mibale: bango nyonso bazalaki bato ya Ayi.
and all who fall during the day, of men and of women, are twelve thousand—all men of Ai.
26 Jozue akitisaki te loboko na ye, oyo esimbaki likonga kino tango asilisaki koboma bato nyonso oyo bazalaki kovanda na Ayi.
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 Kasi Isalaele azwaki mpo na ye, lokola bomengo ya bitumba, bibwele mpe biloko ya engumba yango, kolanda liloba oyo Yawe alobaki na Jozue.
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 Jozue atumbaki Ayi mpe akomisaki yango libebi mpo na libela, esika ezanga bato kino na mokolo ya lelo.
And Joshua burns Ai, and makes it a continuous heap—a desolation to this day;
29 Adiembikaki mokonzi ya Ayi, na nzete kino na pokwa; bongo tango moyi elalaki, Jozue atindaki ete balongola ebembe yango na nzete. Babwakaki yango na ekotelo ya ekuke ya engumba mpe batondisaki na likolo na yango liboke monene ya mabanga oyo ezali kino na mokolo ya lelo.
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 Jozue atongaki etumbelo mpo na Yawe, Nzambe ya Isalaele, na ngomba Ebali,
Then Joshua builds an altar to YHWH, God of Israel, in Mount Ebal,
31 ndenge Moyize, mosali na Yawe, atindaki bana ya Isalaele. Atongaki yango kolanda makambo oyo ekomama kati na buku ya Mobeko ya Moyize: etumbelo etongama na mabanga oyo bakata na esalelo ya ebende te. Na likolo na yango, batiaki mbeka ya kotumba mpo na Yawe mpe babonzaki mbeka ya boyokani.
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 Na esika yango, na miso ya bana nyonso ya Isalaele, Jozue akomaki, na likolo ya mabanga, Mobeko oyo Moyize akomaki mpo na bana ya Isalaele.
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 Bato nyonso ya Isalaele elongo na bakambi na bango, bakomi mibeko mpe basambisi na bango, batelemaki ngambo na ngambo ya Sanduku ya Boyokani, liboso ya Banganga-Nzambe oyo bazali Balevi mpe bamemaka Sanduku ya Boyokani ya Yawe. Mopaya elongo na mwana mboka ya Isalaele bazalaki wana. Ndambo ezalaki liboso ya ngomba Garizimi, mpe ndambo mosusu, liboso ya ngomba Ebali, kolanda mitindo oyo Moyize, mosali na Yawe, apesaki mpo na kopambola bana ya Isalaele.
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 Sima na yango, Jozue atangaki maloba nyonso ya Mobeko: mapamboli mpe bilakeli mabe kolanda ndenge ekomama kati na buku ya Mobeko.
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 Jozue azangisaki te kotanga, liboso ya lisanga mobimba ya Isalaele, basi, bana mpe bapaya oyo bazalaki kati na bango, maloba nyonso oyo Moyize akomaki.
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.
