< Josoa 8 >

1 Le hoe t’Iehovà am’Iehosoa: Ko hemban-drehe, ko manahelo; miavota naho endeso mindre ama’o mb’e Ày mb’eo ze hene lahin-defoñe, Inao fa natoloko am-pità’o ty mpanjaka’ i Ày naho on­dati’eo naho i rova’ey vaho i tane’ey.
And Jehovah said to Joshua, Fear not, neither be dismayed. Take with thee all the people of war, 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 Hanoe’o amy Ày naho amy mpan­jaka’ey hambañe amy nanoa’o am’ Ieriko naho i mpan­jaka’eiy; fe ho tana’ areo ho tsindro’ areo o vara’eo, naho o añom­be’eo, Vandroño boak’ am-boho’e ao i rovay.
And thou shalt do to Ai and to its king as thou didst to Jericho and to its king; only, the spoil thereof and the cattle thereof shall ye take as prey for yourselves. Set an ambush against the city behind it.
3 Aa le niongake t’Iehosoa rekets’ o hene’ lahin-defoñeo, hionjoñe mb’e Ày mb’eo; jinobo’ Iehosoa ty lahilahy telo-ale, fanalolahy mahavany, vaho nirahe’e mb’eo haleñe.
And Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up to Ai. And Joshua chose thirty thousand valiant men, and sent them away by night.
4 Na­fanto’e ami’ty hoe: Inao! hiampitse amboho’ i rovay nahareo hamandroñe i rovay, ko halavira’ areo i rovay, vaho fonga mihentseña.
And he commanded them, saying, See, ye shall be in ambush against the city, behind the city: go not very far from the city, and be all of you ready.
5 Izaho reketse ze hene’ ondaty amako ro higodañe mb’ amy rovay mb’eo; ie amy zao, naho miakatse hañoridañe anay iereo manahake i teoy, le handripak’ an-day añatrefa’ iareo zahay.
And I and all the people that are with me will approach to the city; and it shall come to pass when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them.
6 Ie miakatse hañoridañe anay, naho fa tinari’ay hisitak’ amy rovay le hanao ty hoe: Hehe t’ie milay an-tikañe manahake tam-pifotora’ey. Izay ty hilaisa’ay aolo’ iareo mb’eo.
And they will come out after us till we have drawn them from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first; and we will flee before them.
7 Hiongak’ am-piampirañe amy zao nahareo hitavañe i rovay; fa hatolo’ Iehovà Andrianañahare’ areo am-pità’ areo.
And ye shall rise up from the ambush and take possession of the city; and Jehovah your God will deliver it into your hand.
8 Ie nivotrake amy rovay, le ampiforeheto añ’ afo i rovay; i tsinara’ Iehovày ty hanoa’ areo aze; inay, fa liniliko.
And it shall be when ye have taken the city, that ye shall set the city on fire; according to the word of Jehovah shall ye do. See, I have commanded you.
9 Aa le nampionjone’ Iehosa; le nimb’eo iereo niampitse, naho nitobe añivo’ i Betele naho i Ày ahandrefa’ i Ày ao; nialeñe am’ on­datio avao t’Iehosoa.
And Joshua sent them forth; and they went to lie in ambush, and abode between Bethel and Ai, on the west of Ai. And Joshua lodged that night among the people.
10 Nañampitso amy loak’ àndroy t’Iehosoa, le nitehafe’e ondatio vaho nionjoñe mb’eo, ie naho o mpiaolo’ Israeleo ty niaolo ondatio mb’e Ày añe.
And Joshua rose early in the morning, and inspected the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.
11 Aa le nionjom’ beo iaby ondaty nindre ama’eo, o lahindefoñeo, naho nañarine mb’eo, le nijohañe tandrife i rovay, vaho nitobe avara’ i Ày ey; toe añivo’e naho i Ày eo ty vavatane.
And all the people of war that were with him went up, and drew near, and came before the city; and they encamped on the north of Ai; and the valley was between them and Ai.
12 Nandrambe lahilahy va’e lime-arivo re vaho nampiampire’e añivo’ i Betele naho i Ày ahandrefa’ i rovay.
Now he had taken about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west of the city.
13 Aa le nisalahàñe i maroiy: i lahialeñe avara’ i rovaiy naho o nivolio am-piampirañe ahandrefa’ i rovay ao; le nimb’ añ’ ivo’ i vavataney hialeñe t’Iehosoa.
And when they had set the people, the whole camp on the north of the city, and their ambush on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.
14 Ie amy zao, naho nahaoniñe izay ty mpanjaka’ i Ay le nalisa niongake maraindray o lahilahi’ i rovaio vaho niakatse hiambotrak’ am’ Israele an-kotakotake, ie naho ondati’e iabio, mb’ amy namotoañañey, aolo’ i Arabày; fe tsy napota’e te amboho’ i rovay ty nivoñoñe aze.
And it came to pass when the king of Ai saw it, that the men of the city hasted and rose early, and went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the appointed place before the plain. But he knew not that there was an ambush against him behind the city.
15 Nanao sare gioke aolo’ iareo t’Iehosoa naho Israele iaby, le nan­dripàke mb’ an-dala’ i fatrambeiy mb’eo.
And Joshua and all Israel let themselves be beaten before them; and they fled by the way of the wilderness.
16 Aa le kinoike iaby ondati’ i Aio hifanontoñe, hañoridàñe; le nihoridà’ iareo t’Iehosoa, nisitake amy rovay.
And all the people that were in the city were called together to pursue after them; and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.
17 Tsy nengaeñe ondaty ty e Ay ndra e Betele ao ze tsy niakatse hañotroke Israele; napo’ iareo nisokake i rovay le nañoridañe Israele.
And not a man remained in Ai and Bethel that went not out after Israel; and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.
18 Aa le hoe t’Iehovà am’ Iehosoa: Atora-kitsio mb’amy Ay i lefoñe am-pità’oy; fa hatoloko am-pità’o. Aa le nahiti’ Iehosoa mb’ amy rovay i lefoñe am-pità’ey.
And Jehovah said to Joshua, Stretch out the javelin that is in thy hand toward Ai; for I will give it into thy hand. And Joshua stretched out the javelin that he had in his hand toward the city.
19 Nivora­tsake boak’ an-toe’e ao amy zao o niam­pitseo; namorehetse ty lay mb’eo ty amy nañitia’e i fità’eiy naho nimoak’ amy rovay ao, nitavañe aze, vaho namiañe afo amy rovay.
And the ambush arose quickly from their place, and they ran when he stretched out his hand, and came into the city, and took it, and hasted and set the city on fire.
20 Aa ie nitolike naho niisake mañamboho o lahilahi’ i Aio, ingo nañatoeñe mb’ an-dikeramb’eo i rovay, le tsy nioniñe ty hipota­tsaha’ iareo ke mb’ atia he mb’ etia amy te nibalike mb’ amo nañoridañe iareoo mb’eo o nilay mb’ ampatrambeio.
And the men of Ai turned and saw, and behold, the smoke of the city went up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way; and the people that fled to the wilderness turned upon the pursuers.
21 Naho nioni’ Iehosoa naho Israele iaby te tinava’ o nanàmpokeo i rovay naho te nionjoñe mañambone ty hatoe’ i rovay, le nibalike, vaho zinama’ iareo o lahilahi’ i Aio.
When Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city went up, they turned again, and slew the men of Ai.
22 Niakatse i rovay ka o ila’eo hifañatrek’ am’ iareo; aa le niarikoboña’ Israele, etia ty ila’e, atia ty ila’e, vaho binaibai’e iereo ampara’ t’ie po-sehanga’e leo raike tsy nahapoliotse.
And the others went out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side; and they smote them, until they let none of them escape or flee away.
23 Nenga’ iereo veloñe ty mpanjaka’ i Ay vaho nasese mb’ am’ Ieho­soa mb’eo.
And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.
24 Ie nihenefe’ Israele zamañe o mpimone’ i Ay an-kivoke eio naho i ampatrañe ey nañoridañe iareo rezay, toe nampitsingori­triem-pibara ampara’ t’ie nimongotse, le hene nitolike mb’e Ay mb’eo t’Israele, nanjevoñ’ aze an-dela-pibara.
And it came to pass when Israel had ended slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they had chased them, and they had all fallen by the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all Israel returned to Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.
25 Ty hamaro nikorovok’ amy andro zay amo lahilahy naho rakembao, le rai-ale-tsi-ro’arivo—ze hene’ondati’ i Ay.
And so it was, that all who fell that day, men as well as women, were twelve thousand, all the people of Ai.
26 Tsy nafore’ Iehosoa ty fità’e nañity i lefoñey ampara’ te nimongore’e ze fonga mpimone’ i Ay.
And Joshua did not draw back his hand, which he had stretched out with the javelin, until they had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
27 O añombeo naho i vara-fikopa’ i rovay avao ty tinava’ Israele ho fitsindro’e ty amy tsara linili’ Iehovà am’Iehosoay.
Only, the cattle and the spoil of the city Israel took as prey to themselves, according to the word of Jehovah which he had commanded Joshua.
28 Aa le finorototo’ Iehosoa ty Ay naho nanoe’e tamboho tsy modo, toe hoake ampara’ henane.
And Joshua burned Ai, and made it an everlasting heap of desolation to this day.
29 Naradorado’e an-katae ty mpanjaka’ i Ay ampara’ te hariva; ie tsofots’ andro le nandily t’Iehosoa naho nazotso’ iareo amy hataey i lolo’ey, naho navokovoko an-dalam-bei’ i rovay vaho naonjoñe ama’e ty votrim-bato jabajaba mbe eo henanekeo.
And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until the evening; and at the going down of the sun Joshua commanded, and they took his carcase down from the tree, and threw it down at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised upon it a great heap of stones, [which remains] to this day.
30 Le namboara’ Iehosoa kitrely t’Iehovà, Andrianañahare’ Israele, am-bohi’ Ebale eo
Then Joshua built an altar to Jehovah the God of Israel, in mount Ebal,
31 ty amy nandilia’ i Mosè mpitoro’ Iehovà o ana’ Israeleoy, manahake i sinokitse amy boke Hà’ i Mosèiy, kitrely vato tsy pinèke, tsy nañonjonañe viñe; naho nibanabanae’ iareo soroñe am’ Iehovà, vaho nandenta engan-kanintsiñe.
as Moses the servant of Jehovah had commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of whole stones, over which iron had not been lifted up. And they offered up burnt-offerings on it to Jehovah, and sacrificed peace-offerings.
32 Sinoki’e amo vatoo ty hambañe amy Tsara’ i Mosèy, nisokire’e añatrefa’ o ana’ Israeleo.
And he wrote there on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he had written before the children of Israel.
33 Hene nijohañe añ’ila’ i vatam-pañinay etoy naho añ’ ila’e eroy añatrefa’ o mpisoroñe nte-Levy nitarazo i vatam-pañina’ Iehovàio t’Israele naho o mpiaolo’eo naho o mpifehe’eo vaho o mpizaka’eo sindre tao ty renetane naho t’indaty; ty ila’e aolo’ i vohi-Gerizimey naho ty ila’e aolo’ i vohi-Ebaley; ty amy nandilia’ i Mosè mpitoro’ Iehovà am-baloha’ey, hitatàñe o ana’ Israeleo.
And all Israel, and their elders, and their officers and judges, stood on this side and on that side of the ark before the priests the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, as well the stranger as the home-born [Israelite]; half of them toward mount Gerizim, and the other half of them toward mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of Jehovah had commanded, that they should bless the people of Israel, in the beginning.
34 Modo izay le vinaki’e o enta’ i Hake iabio, o tatao naho o fatseo, ze hene sinokitse amy boke’ i Hake ao.
And afterwards he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the book of the law.
35 Ndra raik’ amo tsara linili’ i Mosèo tsy nado’ Iehosoa fa hene nivakie añatrefam-pivori-bei’ Israele, naho amo rakembao, naho amo keleiañeo vaho amo renetane niharo am’ iereoo.
There was not a word of all that Moses had commanded which Joshua read not before the whole congregation of Israel, and the women, and the children, and the strangers that lived among them.

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