Књига Исуса Навина 8
1 Иза тога рече Господ Исусу: Не бој се и не плаши се; узми са собом сав народ што је за бој, па устани и иди на Гај; ево предадох ти у руке цара гајског и народ његов и град његов и земљу његову.
And the LORD said to Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou dismayed: take all the people of war with thee, 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 И учини с Гајем и царем његовим како си учинио с Јерихоном и његовим царем; али плен из њега и стоку његову разграбите за се. Намести заседу иза града.
And thou shalt do to Ai and its king as thou didst to Jericho and its king: only its spoil, and its cattle, shall ye take for a prey to yourselves: lay thee an ambush for the city behind it.
3 И уста Исус и сав народ што беше за бој, да иду на Гај; и изабра Исус тридесет хиљада јунака, и посла их ноћу;
So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valour, and sent them away by night.
4 И заповеди им говорећи: Гледајте ви који ћете бити у заседи иза града, да не будете врло далеко од града, него будите сви готови.
And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in wait against the city, even behind the city: go not very far from the city, but be ye all ready:
5 А ја и сав народ што је са мном примакнућемо се ка граду; па кад они изађу пред нас, ми ћемо као и пре побећи испред њих.
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 Те ће они поћи за нама докле их не одвојимо од града, јер ће рећи: Беже испред нас као и пре. И ми ћемо бежати испред њих.
(For 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: therefore we will flee before them.
7 Тада ви изађите из заседе и истерајте из града шта буде остало. Јер ће вам га дати Господ Бог ваш у руке.
Then ye shall rise from the ambush, and seize upon the city: for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.
8 А кад узмете град, запалите га огњем; по речи Господњој учините. Ето, заповедио сам вам.
And it shall be, when ye have taken the city, that ye shall set the city on fire: according to the commandment of the LORD shall ye do. See, I have commanded you.
9 Тако их посла Исус, и они одоше у заседу, и стадоше између Ветиља и Гаја, са запада Гају; а Исус преноћи ону ноћ међу народом.
Joshua therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie in ambush, and abode between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people.
10 А ујутру уста Исус рано и преброја народ, па пође са старешинама Израиљевим пред народом на Гај.
And Joshua rose early in the morning, and numbered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.
11 И сва војска што беше с њим пође и примакавши се дођоше према граду и стадоше у логор са севера Гају; а беше долина између њих и Гаја.
And all the people, even the people of war that were with him, went up, and drew near, and came before the city, and encamped on the north side of Ai: now there was a valley between them and Ai.
12 И узе око пет хиљада људи, и намести их у заседу између Ветиља и Гаја, са запада граду Гају.
And he took about five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.
13 И кад се намести сав народ, сва војска, што беше са севера граду и што беше у заседи са запада граду, изађе Исус ону ноћ усред долине.
And when they had set the people, even all the host that was on the north of the city, and their ones lying in ambush on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.
14 И кад то виде цар гајски, људи у граду похиташе и уранише; и изађоше онај час у поље пред Израиља у бој, цар и сав народ његов. А не знаше да има заседа за њим, иза града.
And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted and rose early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain; but he knew not that there were liers in ambush against him behind the city.
15 Тада Исус и сав Израиљ, као да их побише, нагоше бежати к пустињи.
And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.
16 А они сазваше сав народ што беше у граду да их терају. И тераше Исуса, и одвојише се од свог града.
And all the people that were in Ai were called together to pursue them: and they pursued Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.
17 И не оста нико у Гају ни у Ветиљу да не пође за Израиљем; и оставише град отворен, и тераху Израиља.
And there was not a man left in Ai or Bethel, that went not out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued Israel.
18 Тада рече Господ Исусу: Дигни заставу што ти је у руци према Гају, јер ћу ти га дати у руке. И подиже Исус заставу што му беше у руци према граду.
And the LORD said to Joshua, Stretch out the spear that is in thy hand toward Ai; for I will give it into thy hand. And Joshua stretched out the spear that he had in his hand toward the city.
19 А они што беху у заседи одмах усташе са свог места, и потрчаше чим он подиже руку своју, и уђоше у град и узеше га, и брзо запалише град огњем.
And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand: and they entered into the city, and took it, and hasted and set the city on fire.
20 А кад се Гајани обазреше, а то дим од града дизаше се до неба, и не имаху куда бежати ни тамо ни амо; а народ који бежаше у пустињу поврати се на оне који га тераху.
And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.
21 И Исус и сав Израиљ видевши да је заседа њихова узела град и где се диже дим од града, вратише се и ударише на Гајане.
And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and slew the men of Ai.
22 А они из града изађоше пред њих, те беху међу Израиљцима одовуд и одонуд, и побише их тако да ниједан не оста жив нити утече.
And the other issued 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, so that they let none of them remain or escape.
23 А цара гајског ухватише живог и доведоше к Исусу.
And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.
24 А кад побише Израиљци све Гајане у пољу, у пустињи, куда их гонише, и падоше сви од оштрог мача, те се истребише, онда се вратише сви Израиљци у Гај, и исекоше шта још беше у њему оштрим мачем.
And it came to pass, when Israel had finished slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they chased them, and when they had all fallen on the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned to Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.
25 А свих што изгибоше онај дан, и људи и жена, беше дванаест хиљада, самих Гајана.
And so it was, that all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.
26 И Исус не спусти руку своју, коју беше подигао са заставом, док не побише све становнике гајске.
For Joshua drew not his hand back, with which he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
27 Само стоку и плен из града оног разграбише Израиљци за се, као што беше Господ заповедио Исусу.
Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for a prey to themselves, according to the word of the LORD which he commanded Joshua.
28 И Исус спали Гај, и обрати га у гомилу вечну, и у пустош до данашњег дана.
And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation to this day.
29 А цара гајског обеси на дрво и остави до вечера; а о заходу сунчаном заповеди Исус те скидоше тело његово с дрвета и бацише пред врата градска, и набацаше на њ велику гомилу камења, која стоји и данас.
And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until evening: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his body down from the tree, and cast it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raise over it a great heap of stones, that remaineth to this day.
30 Тада Исус начини олтар Господу Богу Израиљевом на гори Евалу,
Then Joshua built an altar to the LORD God of Israel in mount Ebal,
31 Као што беше заповедио Мојсије слуга Господњи синовима Израиљевим, као што пише у књизи закона Мојсијевог, олтар од целог камења, преко ког није превучено гвожђе; и принесоше на њему жртве паљенице Господу, и принесоше жртве захвалне.
As Moses the servant of the LORD commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of whole stones, over which no man hath lifted up any iron: and they offered on it burnt offerings to the LORD, and sacrificed peace offerings.
32 И преписа онде на камењу закон Мојсијев, који је написао синовима Израиљевим.
And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.
33 И сав Израиљ и старешине његове и управитељи и судије његове стадоше с обе стране ковчега, према свештеницима Левитима, који ношаху ковчег завета Господњег, и странац и домородац; половина према гори Гаризину а половина према гори Евалу, као што беше заповедио Мојсије слуга Господњи да благослови народ Израиљев најпре.
And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on this side of the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, as well the stranger, as he that was born among them; half of them opposite mount Gerizim, and half of them opposite mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel.
34 И потом прочита све речи закона, благослов и проклетство, све како је написано у књизи закона.
And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the book of the law.
35 Не би ни једне речи од свега што је Мојсије написао, које не прочита Исус пред свим збором Израиљевим, и женама и децом и странцима који иђаху међу њима.
There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua read not before all the congregation of Israel, with the women, and the little ones, and the strangers that were conversant among them.
