Yoswa 8
1 Mukama n’agamba Yoswa nti, “Totya era tokeŋŋentererwa, ddira abasajja bonna abalwanyi mulumbe ekibuga Ayi kubanga mbawadde obuwanguzi ku kyo. Kabaka, n’abantu be, ne byonna ebiri mu kibuga Ayi mbibawadde.
Then said Yahweh unto Joshua—Do not fear nor be dismayed, take with thee all the army, and arise, go up to Ai, —see! I have given into thy hand, the king of Ai and his people, and his city, and his land;
2 Ayi ne kabaka waakyo mu bayise nga bwe mwakola Yeriko, omunyago gwonna okuva mu Ayi ngubawadde. Mwekukume muteegere emabega w’ekibuga.”
so shalt thou do unto Ai and to her king, as thou didst unto Jericho unto her king, save only, the spoil thereof and the cattle thereof, shall ye take as your own prey, —set thee an ambush for the city, behind it.
3 Yoswa n’asituka n’eggye lyonna okulumba Ayi, n’alondamu abasajja abalwanyi abazira nnamige emitwalo esatu n’abasindika kiro okulumba Ayi.
So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up to Ai, —and Joshua chose out thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valour, and sent them forth by night.
4 N’abakuutira nti, “Mugende mwekukume kumpi n’ekibuga era muteegere abantu baamu emabega waakyo. Temugenda wala nakyo mwenna mube beetegefu.
And he commanded them, saying—See! ye, shall be lying in ambush against the city, behind the city, do not go very far from the city, —so shall ye all be ready.
5 Nze n’abalwanyi abalala tujja kwolekera ekibuga, bwe banaatufubutula ng’olulala, tujja kuddukira ddala
But, I, and all the people who are with me, will draw near unto the city, —and it shall be, when they come out to meet us, as at the first, then will we flee before them;
6 tubatwalirize ewala okuva ku kibuga, tubalowoozese nti, tubadduse. Ffe tujja kuddukira ddala tubabuleko.
so will they come out after us, until we have drawn them away from the city, for they will say, Fleeing before us, as at the first! therefore will we flee before them.
7 Olwo mulyoke mufubutuke gye mwekwese, muwambe ekibuga kubanga Mukama ajja kukibawa mukiwangule.
Then, ye, shall rise up out of the ambush, and take possession of the city, —and Yahweh your God will deliver it into your hand.
8 Kasita mukiyingira nga mukikumako omuliro. Mukole nga Mukama bw’alagidde. Ebyo bye mbakuutidde.”
And it shall be, when ye have seized the city, then shall ye burn the city with fire, according to the word of Yahweh, shall ye do, —see! I have commanded you.
9 Yoswa n’abasindika ne bagenda beekweka wakati wa Beseri ne Ayi ebugwanjuba w’ekibuga Ayi. Ekiro ekyo Yoswa yakimala n’Abayisirayiri abalala.
So Joshua sent them forth, and they went into ambush, and abode between Bethel and Ai, on the west of Ai, —but Joshua lodged that night in the midst of the people.
10 Yoswa yakeera nnyo mu makya ne yeekebejja abalwanyi be, oluvannyuma ye n’abakulembeze b’Abayisirayiri ne boolekera Ayi.
And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and mustered the people, —and went up—he and the elders of Israel, before the people, to Ai.
11 Abasajja bonna abalwanyi ne basemberera ekibuga era ne bakuŋŋaanira mu maaso g’ekibuga Ayi mu bukiikakkono bwakyo, ng’ekiwonvu kye kibaawula.
And, all the people of war who were with him, went up, and drew near, and came in, right before the city, —and pitched on the north of Ai, with, a valley, between them and Ai.
12 Yoswa n’addira abalwanyi ng’enkumi ttaano ne bateegera wakati wa Beseri ne Ayi ebuvanjuba w’ekibuga.
And he took about five thousand men, —and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west of the city.
13 Ekibinja ky’abalwanyi ekisinga obunene ne kikuŋŋaanira mu bukiikakkono w’ekibuga ate ekibinja ekizibizi ne kikuŋŋaanira ebugwanjuba w’ekibuga. Naye ye Yoswa ekiro ekyo yasula mu kiwonvu.
And, when the people had set all the host that was on the north of the city, with the rear thereof on the west of the city, then went Joshua, during the night, into the midst of the valley.
14 Mu makya kabaka wa Ayi n’abantu be olwalengera Abayisirayiri ne bafubutuka okugenda okubalwanyisa awo okwolekera Alaba, naye tebaamanya nti waaliwo Abayisirayiri abalala abaali babeekwekeredde emabega w’ekibuga.
And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted, and rose up early, and the men of the city came out to meet Israel for battle, he and all his people, at an appointed time, before the waste plain, —he not knowing that there was an ambush lying in wait for him, behind the city.
15 Yoswa n’ekibinja ky’Abayisirayiri be yali nabo ne beefuula ng’abawanguddwa ne badduka nga boolekedde eddungu.
So then Joshua and all Israel suffered themselves to be smitten before them, —and fled, by the way of the wilderness;
16 Abantu bonna abaali mu kibuga ne bakoowoolwa okugoba Abayisirayiri, ne babagobera ddala era ne babawereekereza wala nnyo n’ekibuga.
and all the people who were in the city were called out to pursue them, —and they pursued Joshua, and so were drawn out away from the city.
17 Tewali musajja n’omu yasigala mu Ayi oba Beseri, ekibuga kyonna baaleka kiggule nga bagenze okugoba Abayisirayiri.
And there remained not a man, in Ai or Bethel, who had not gone out after Israel, —and they left the city, open, and pursued Israel.
18 Mukama n’agamba Yoswa nti, “Galula omuwunda gwo ng’ogwolekeza Ayi, kubanga ojja kukiwangula.” Bw’atyo Yoswa n’agalula omuwunda gwe eri Ayi.
Then said Yahweh unto Joshua—Stretch out with the javelin which is in thy hand, towards Ai, for, into thy hand, will I deliver it. So Joshua stretched out with the javelin which was in his hand, towards the city.
19 Amangwago ng’agaludde omuwunda abaali beekwese ne bafubutukayo ne besogga ekibuga era amangwago ne bakikoleeza omuliro.
And, the ambush, rose up quickly, out of their place, and ran, when he stretched out his hand, and entered the city, and captured it, —and hasted, and set the city on fire.
20 Abasajja b’omu Ayi bagenda okukebuka ng’ekibuga kyabwe kinyooka omukka nga tebakyasobola kudda mabega wadde okugenda mu maaso.
And the men of Ai turned behind them, and looked, and lo! the smoke of the city had risen up towards the heavens, and there was in them no strength, to flee this way or that way, —moreover, the people that were fleeing to the wilderness, turned back upon the pursuers.
21 Yoswa n’abasajja be bwe baalaba nga bannaabwe beesozze ekibuga era ne bakyokya, kwe kukyukira abaali babagoba ne babatta ebitagambika.
Yea, when, Joshua and all Israel, saw that the ambush had captured the city, and that the smoke of the city had risen up, then returned they, and smote the men of Ai.
22 Abayisirayiri abaayokya ekibuga nabo ne bavaayo ne bafuumbikiriza abasajja b’omu Ayi ne babatta obutalekaawo n’omu.
And, the others, came forth out of the city to meet them, so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side, —and they smote them, until there was left them none to remain or to escape.
23 Naye ye kabaka w’e Ayi baamuwamba ne bamuleetera Yoswa.
And, the king of Ai, they caught alive, —and brought him near unto Joshua.
24 Abayisirayiri bwe baamala okutta abantu b’omu Ayi abaali babagoberedde mu ddungu, ne balyoka bakomawo mu kibuga kya Ayi ne batta abantu bonna abaakirimu.
And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness whither they had pursued them, and all of them had fallen by the edge of the sword until they were consumed, then all Israel returned to Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.
25 Abasajja n’abakazi abattibwa ku olwo bonna baali omutwalo gumu mu enkumi bbiri.
And so it was, that all who fell that day, both of men and of women, were twelve thousand, —all people of Ai.
26 Yoswa bwe yagalula omuwunda gwe okugwolekeza ekibuga Ayi teyagussa wansi okutuusa ng’abaamu bonna bamaze okuzikirizibwa.
Now, Joshua, drew not back his hand which he had stretched out with the javelin, —until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
27 Ente n’ebintu ebirala bye baasanga mu kibuga, Abayisirayiri ne babitwala okuba omunyago gwabwe nga Mukama bwe yakuutira Yoswa.
Nevertheless, the cattle and the spoil of that city, Israel took as their own prey, —according to the word of Yahweh, which he commanded Joshua.
28 Yoswa n’ayokya Ayi era ne kifuuka kifunvu ne leero.
So then Joshua burned Ai, —and made of it an age-abiding heap—a desolation, [as it remaineth] until this day.
29 Ate n’atta kabaka wa Ayi n’amuwanika ku muti okutuusa akawungeezi lwe baawanulayo omulambo gwe ne bagusuula awo ku wankaaki w’ekibuga ne bagutuumako entuumu y’amayinja era ekyaliyo ne kaakano.
And, the king of Ai, hanged he on a tree until eventide, —but, at the going in of the sun, Joshua gave command and they took down his dead body from the tree, and cast it in at the opening of the gate of the city, and raised up over it a great heap of stones—[which remaineth] until this day.
30 Oluvannyuma Yoswa n’azimbira Mukama Katonda wa Isirayiri, ekyoto ku lusozi Ebali.
Than, built Joshua, an altar, unto Yahweh, God of Israel, —in Mount Ebal:
31 Nga Musa omuweereza wa Mukama bwe yakuutira Abayisirayiri era nga bwe kyawandiikibwa mu kitabo ky’amateeka ga Musa, “Ekyoto eky’amayinja agataabajjibwa muntu ng’akozesa ekyuma.” Bwe kyaggwa ne batandika okukiweerako Mukama ebiweebwayo ebyokebwa n’ebiweebwayo olw’emirembe.
as Moses, the servant of Yahweh, commanded the sons of Israel, as it is written in the scroll of the law of Moses, an altar of whole stones, whereon had not been wielded any tool of iron, —and they caused to go up thereon, ascending-sacrifices unto Yahweh, and sacrificed peace-offerings.
32 Era n’awandiikira eyo ku mayinja mu maaso g’Abayisirayiri bonna, amateeka Musa ge yasooka okuwandiikira abaana ba Isirayiri.
Then wrote he there, upon the stones, a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote, in the presence of the sons of Israel.
33 Abayisirayiri bonna n’abakulembeze baabwe, abalamuzi, n’abakungu ne bannaggwanga bonna ab’omu Isirayiri ne bayimirira eruuyi n’eruuyi w’Essanduuko okwolekera bakabona Abaleevi abaasitulanga Essanduuko y’Endagaano ya Mukama. Ne beegabanyaamu, ekitundu ekimu ne bayimirira mu maaso g’olusozi Gerizimu, ate abalala ne bayimirira mu maaso g’olusozi Ebali, nga Musa omuddu wa Mukama bwe yabalagira mu kusooka nti, “Kibagwanidde okusabira Abayisirayiri omukisa.”
And, all Israel, and their elders and officers, and their judges, were standing on this side and on that side of the ark, before the priests the Levites, who were bearing the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, as well the sojourner as the home-born, half of them over against Mount Gerizim, and half of them over against Mount Ebal, —as Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded to bless the sons of Israel, first of all.
34 Oluvannyuma Yoswa n’abasomera ebigambo byonna eby’omu mateeka, emikisa n’ebikolimo nga byonna bwe byawandiikibwa mu Kitabo ky’Amateeka.
And, after that, read he all the words of the law, the blessing and the cursing, —according to all that was written in the scroll of the law.
35 Tewali kigambo na kimu Musa kye yalagira, Yoswa ky’ataasomera Bayisirayiri bonna, abaali bakuŋŋaanye abasajja n’abakazi n’abaana abato ssaako ne bannaggwanga be baabeeranga nabo.
Them was not a word of all that Moses commanded, —which Joshua read not before all the convocation of Israel, with the women and the little ones, and the sojourner who was going on in their midst.
