Josué 8
1 El Señor le dijo a Josué: “No temas ni te desanimes. Toma a todos los guerreros contigo, y levántate y sube a Hai. He aquí que he entregado en tu mano al rey de Hai, con su pueblo, su ciudad y su tierra.
Then Yahweh said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid or discouraged [because of what happened at] Ai. Lead all of your soldiers and go there again. I will help you to defeat the king of Ai, his people, and his city, and [enable you to take] his land.
2 Haréis con Hai y con su rey lo mismo que hicisteis con Jericó y con su rey, salvo que tomaréis para vosotros sus bienes y su ganado. Poned una emboscada a la ciudad detrás de ella”.
Your army will do to the people of Ai and their king like what you did to the people of Jericho and their king. But this time [I will permit you to] take all their possessions and keep them for yourselves. But first, tell some of your soldiers to [hide behind] the city [and] prepare to suddenly attack it.”
3 Entonces Josué se levantó, con todos los guerreros, para subir a Hai. Josué escogió treinta mil hombres, los más valientes, y los envió de noche.
So Joshua led all his army toward Ai. He chose 30,000 of his best fighters/warriors and prepared to send them out during the night.
4 Les ordenó, diciendo: “Mirad, os pondréis en emboscada contra la ciudad, detrás de la ciudad. No os alejéis mucho de la ciudad, pero estad todos preparados.
He said to them, “Listen carefully. Some of you must hide on the other side of the city. Do not go far from the city. Just be ready [to attack].
5 Yo y todo el pueblo que está conmigo nos acercaremos a la ciudad. Sucederá que cuando salgan contra nosotros, como al principio, huiremos ante ellos.
I and the men who are with me will march toward the city [in the morning]. The men in the city will come out to fight us, like they did before. Then we will turn around and start to run away from them.
6 Saldrán tras nosotros hasta que los hayamos alejado de la ciudad; porque dirán: “Huyen ante nosotros, como la primera vez”. Así que huiremos delante de ellos,
They will think that we are running away from them like we did before. So they will chase us away from the city. While we are running away,
7 y tú te levantarás de la emboscada y tomarás posesión de la ciudad, porque el Señor, tu Dios, la entregará en tu mano.
[those of you who are hiding come out and] rush into the city and capture it. Yahweh your God will enable you to conquer it.
8 Cuando hayáis tomado la ciudad, le prenderéis fuego. Harás esto según la palabra de Yahvé. He aquí que yo te lo he ordenado”.
After you capture the city, burn it. Do what Yahweh has commanded us to do. Those are the orders I am giving to you.”
9 Josué los envió, y ellos fueron a preparar la emboscada, y se quedaron entre Betel y Hai, al oeste de Hai; pero Josué se quedó en medio del pueblo esa noche.
Then Joshua [prepared to] send some of them to [hide and] wait between Ai and Bethel, which was west of Ai. But Joshua stayed with his other soldiers that night.
10 Josué se levantó de madrugada, reunió al pueblo y subió, él y los ancianos de Israel, delante del pueblo a Hai.
Early the next morning, Joshua gathered his soldiers together. Then he and the other Israeli leaders led them up to Ai.
11 Todo el pueblo, incluso los hombres de guerra que estaban con él, subieron y se acercaron, y llegaron ante la ciudad y acamparon en el lado norte de Hai. Había un valle entre él y Hai.
They all set up their tents close to Ai, just to the north of the city, where all the people of the city could see them. There was a valley between them and the city.
12 Tomó unos cinco mil hombres y los puso en una emboscada entre Betel y Hai, del lado occidental de la ciudad.
Then Joshua chose about 5,000 men and told them to go and hide just west of the city, between Ai and Bethel.
13 Así que puso a la gente, a todo el ejército que estaba al norte de la ciudad, y su emboscada al oeste de la ciudad; y Josué fue aquella noche al centro del valle.
So those men did that. The main group of soldiers was north of the city, and the others were hiding west of the city. That night Joshua went down into the valley.
14 Cuando el rey de Hai lo vio, se apresuró y se levantó temprano, y los hombres de la ciudad salieron contra Israel para combatir, él y todo su pueblo, a la hora señalada, frente al Arabá; pero él no sabía que había una emboscada contra él detrás de la ciudad.
When the king of Ai saw the Israeli army, he and his soldiers got up early the next morning and quickly went out of the city to fight them. They went to a place east of the city, but they did not know that some Israeli soldiers were hiding behind the city.
15 Josué y todo Israel hicieron como si fueran vencidos ante ellos, y huyeron por el camino del desierto.
Joshua and the Israeli soldiers [who were with him] allowed the army of Ai to push them back. They ran toward the desert.
16 Todo el pueblo que estaba en la ciudad fue convocado para perseguirlos. Persiguieron a Josué, y fueron alejados de la ciudad.
The men in Ai were ordered to chase after Joshua and his men. So they left the city and started to pursue the Israelis.
17 No quedó un solo hombre en Hai o en Betel que no saliera en pos de Israel. Dejaron la ciudad abierta y persiguieron a Israel.
All the men of Ai and the men of Bethel pursued the Israeli army. They did not leave even one man in Ai to defend it. The [gates of the] city were left wide open.
18 Yahvé dijo a Josué: “Extiende la jabalina que tienes en la mano hacia Hai, porque la entregaré en tu mano”. Josué extendió la jabalina que tenía en la mano hacia la ciudad.
Then Yahweh said to Joshua, “[Lift up] your spear [and] point it toward Ai, because I am going to enable your soldiers to capture it!” So Joshua pointed [his spear] toward Ai.
19 Los emboscados se levantaron rápidamente de su lugar, y corrieron tan pronto como él extendió su mano y entraron en la ciudad y la tomaron. Se apresuraron y prendieron fuego a la ciudad.
When the Israeli men who were hiding saw that, they rushed out from the places where they were hiding and ran into the city. They quickly captured it and set it on fire.
20 Cuando los hombres de Hai miraron a sus espaldas, vieron que el humo de la ciudad subía hasta el cielo, y no tuvieron fuerzas para huir por un lado o por otro. El pueblo que huyó al desierto se volvió contra los perseguidores.
When the men of Ai looked back, they saw smoke rising from their city. But they could not escape, because the Israeli troops stopped running away.
21 Cuando Josué y todo Israel vieron que la emboscada había tomado la ciudad y que el humo de la ciudad ascendía, se volvieron y mataron a los hombres de Hai.
Joshua and his men saw that the men who had been hiding had captured the city and were burning it, and they saw the smoke rising. So they turned around and started to attack the men of Ai.
22 Los demás salieron de la ciudad contra ellos, de modo que se pusieron en medio de Israel, unos de un lado y otros de otro. Los atacaron, de modo que no dejaron que ninguno de ellos permaneciera ni escapara.
Meanwhile, the soldiers who had captured the city came out [and attacked them from the rear]. So the men of Ai were caught between the two groups of Israeli soldiers. None of the men of Ai escaped. The Israelis fought until they killed all of them. Only the king of Ai was still alive.
23 Capturaron vivo al rey de Hai y lo llevaron a Josué.
Then they seized the king of Ai and brought him to Joshua.
24 Cuando Israel terminó de matar a todos los habitantes de Hai en el campo, en el desierto donde los perseguían, y todos cayeron a filo de espada hasta ser consumidos, todo Israel volvió a Hai y la hirió a filo de espada.
While they were fighting, the Israeli army pursued the men of Ai into the fields and into the desert, and killed all of them. Then they went to Ai and killed everyone who was there.
25 Todos los que cayeron aquel día, tanto hombres como mujeres, fueron doce mil, todo el pueblo de Hai.
They killed 12,000 men and women.
26 Porque Josué no retiró su mano, con la que extendía la jabalina, hasta que hubo destruido por completo a todos los habitantes de Hai.
Joshua continued to point his spear [LIT] toward Ai, until all the people in Ai had been killed.
27 Israel sólo tomó para sí el ganado y los bienes de esa ciudad, según la palabra de Yahvé que le había ordenado a Josué.
The Israeli soldiers took for themselves the animals and the other things that had belonged to the people of Ai, just like Yahweh had told Joshua that they should do.
28 Entonces Josué quemó a Hai y la convirtió en un montón para siempre, en una desolación, hasta el día de hoy.
Joshua and his soldiers burned Ai city and caused it to become a pile of ruins. It is still like that today.
29 Colgó al rey de Hai en un árbol hasta el atardecer. Al anochecer, Josué lo ordenó, y bajaron su cuerpo del árbol y lo arrojaron a la entrada de la puerta de la ciudad, y levantaron sobre él un gran montón de piedras que permanece hasta el día de hoy.
Joshua hanged the king of Ai on a tree and left his corpse hanging there until the evening. At sunset Joshua told his men to take the king’s corpse down from the tree and to throw it on the ground at the city gate. [After they did that], they piled a lot of rocks on top of the corpse, and that pile of rocks is still there.
30 Entonces Josué edificó un altar a Yahvé, el Dios de Israel, en el monte Ebal,
Joshua [told his men to] build on Ebal Mountain an altar for Yahweh, the God [who is worshiped by] the Israeli people.
31 tal como Moisés, siervo de Yahvé, lo había ordenado a los hijos de Israel, como está escrito en el libro de la ley de Moisés: un altar de piedras sin cortar, en el que nadie había levantado hierro. Sobre él ofrecían holocaustos a Yahvé y sacrificaban ofrendas de paz.
They built it just like Moses, the man who served God [well], had written previously in the laws [that God had given to him]. They made it from stones that had not been cut using iron tools. The Israelis then offered sacrifices to Yahweh that were burned completely on the altar. They also offered sacrifices to restore fellowship with Yahweh.
32 Allí escribió en las piedras una copia de la ley de Moisés, que escribió en presencia de los hijos de Israel.
As the Israelis watched, Joshua wrote on stones the laws that [Yahweh had given] to Moses previously.
33 Todo Israel, con sus ancianos, oficiales y jueces, se puso de pie a ambos lados del arca, delante de los sacerdotes levitas que llevaban el arca de la alianza de Yahvé, tanto los extranjeros como los nativos; la mitad de ellos frente al monte Gerizim, y la otra mitad frente al monte Ebal, tal como Moisés, siervo de Yahvé, lo había ordenado al principio, para que bendijesen al pueblo de Israel.
The Israeli leaders, the officials, the judges, and other Israelis were there, standing nearby. Many people who were not Israelis were also there. Half of the people stood [on one side of the valley] below Ebal Mountain, and the other half of the people stood [on the other side of the valley] below Gerizim Mountain. The sacred chest was [in the valley] between the two groups. That was what Moses had previously commanded that the people should do when [Yahweh was about to] bless them.
34 Después leyó todas las palabras de la ley, la bendición y la maldición, según todo lo que está escrito en el libro de la ley.
Then Joshua read [to the people] all that [Moses] had written previously. That included what Yahweh had taught them and the ways [that he promised] to bless them [if they obeyed his commands], or to curse them [if they disobeyed them].
35 No hubo palabra de todo lo que Moisés mandó que Josué no leyera ante toda la asamblea de Israel, con las mujeres, los niños y los extranjeros que estaban entre ellos.
All the Israelis gathered together [to listen]—the men, the women, and the children. The (foreigners/people who were not Israelis) who were living among them also listened, while Joshua read all the commands that Moses had written.
