Joshua 8
1 And the Lord said to Joshua, Fear not, nor be timorous: take with you all the men of war, and arise, go up to Gai; behold, I have given into your hands the king of Gai, and his land.
Tada reče Jahve Jošui: “Ne boj se i ne strahuj! Uzmi sa sobom sve ratnike, ustani i navali na Aj. Gle, predajem ti u ruke ajskoga kralja, njegov narod, grad i zemlju njegovu.
2 And you shall do to Gai, as you did to Jericho and its king; and you shall take to yourself the spoil of its cattle; set now for yourself an ambush for the city behind.
Učini s Ajem i s njegovim kraljem kao što si učinio s Jerihonom i njegovim kraljem; ali vam je slobodno da prigrabite plijen iz njega i njegovu stoku. Postavi gradu zasjedu s leđa.”
3 And Joshua and all the men of war rose to go up to Gai; and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men, and he sent them away by night.
Spremi se Jošua da navali na Aj i svi ratnici s njime. Izabrao je trideset tisuća junaka i poslao ih noću;
4 And he charged them, saying, Do you lie in ambush behind the city: do not go far from the city, and you shall all be ready.
dade im zapovijed: “Pazite! Poći ćete u zasjedu gradu s leđa, ali da ne budete predaleko od grada i budite svi spremni.
5 Land I and all with me will draw near to the city: and it shall come to pass when the inhabitants of Gai shall come forth to meet us, as before, that we will flee from before them.
A ja i sav narod koji me prati primaknut ćemo se gradu; i kada ljudi iz Aja izađu pred nas, mi ćemo kao i prije pobjeći ispred njih.
6 And when they shall come out after us, we will draw them away from the city; and they will say, These men flee from before us, as also before.
Oni će onda navaliti za nama dok ih ne odvedemo od grada jer će misliti: 'Bježe ispred nas kao i prije.'
7 And you shall rise up out of the ambuscade, and go into the city.
Tada provalite iz zasjede i zauzmite grad: Jahve, Bog vaš, predat će vam ga u ruke.
8 You shall do according to this word, behold! I have commanded you.
Kad jednom osvojite grad, spalite ga ognjem. Učinite to po Jahvinoj zapovijedi. Pazite, to vam zapovjedih.”
9 And Joshua sent them, and they went to lie in ambush; and they lay between Baethel and Gai, westward of Gai.
Jošua ih posla i oni odoše u zasjedu te se smjestiše između Betela i Aja, gradu sa zapada. A Jošua provede noć među narodom.
10 And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and numbered the people; and he went up, he and the elders before the people to Gai.
Uranivši, Jošua ujutro prebroja narod i pođe sa starješinama Izraelovim pred narodom na Aj.
11 And all the men of war went up with him, and they went forward and came over against the city eastward.
Svi ratnici krenu s njim i kad se primaknu gradu, utabore se Aju sa sjevera, tako da je između njih i mjesta bila ravnica.
12 And the ambuscade [was] on the west side of the city.
Jošua uze oko pet tisuća ljudi i namjesti zasjedu između Betela i Aja, gradu sa zapadne strane.
A narod se smjesti u tabor, koji je bio na sjeveru grada, dok je njegova zalaznica bila na zapadu grada. Jošua opet provede noć usred naroda.
14 And it came to pass when the king of Gai saw [it], he hasted and went out to meet them direct to the battle, he and all the people [that were] with him: and he knew not that there was an ambuscade [formed] against him behind the city.
Kad je sve to vidio ajski kralj, požuri se te izađe on i sav njegov narod niz obronak prema Arabi u boj protiv Izraela. A nisu ni slutili da je iza grada namještena zasjeda.
15 And Joshua and Israel saw, and retreated from before them.
Tada Jošua i sav Izrael nagnu bježati kao da su ih pobijedili. I bježali su putem prema pustinji.
16 And they pursued after the children of Israel, and they themselves went to a distance from the city.
Ajani nato pozvaše sve iz grada i dadoše se za njima u potjeru te, goneći Jošuu, odvoje se od grada.
17 There was no one left in Gai who did not pursue after Israel; and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.
I ne ostade nitko u Aju i Betelu da nije pošao za Izraelcima. Ostavili su grad otvoren i gonili Izraelce.
18 And the Lord said to Joshua, Stretch forth your hand with the spear that is in your hand towards the city, for I have delivered it into your hands; and the liers in wait shall rise up quickly out of their place.
Tada reče Jahve Jošui: “Zamahni kopljem što ti je u ruci prema Aju: predajem ti ga u ruke.” I podiže Jošua koplje što mu bješe u ruci i zamahnu prema gradu.
19 And Joshua stretched out his hand [and] his spear towards the city, and the ambuscade rose up quickly out of their place; and they came forth when he stretched out his hand; and they entered into the city, and took it; and they hasted and burnt the city with fire.
I tek što je podigao ruku, dignu se ljudi iz zasjede i potrče prema gradu, osvoje ga i umah ga ognjem zapale.
20 And when the inhabitants of Gai looked round behind them, then they saw the smoke going up out of the city to heaven, and they were no longer able to flee this way or that way.
Kada se oni iz Aja obazreše, imadoše što vidjeti: dim se dizao iz grada prema nebu. I nitko od njih nije imao kuda uteći ni tamo ni amo. Tada se narod koji je bježao prema pustinji okrenuo prema progoniteljima.
21 And Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambuscade had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city went up to heaven; and they turned and struck the men of Gai.
Vidjevši Jošua i sav Izrael da je zasjeda zauzela grad i da se diže dim iz grada, vrate se i udare na ljude iz Aja.
22 And these came forth out of the city to meet them; and they were in the midst of the army, some [being] on this side, and some on that; and they struck them until there was not left of them one who survived and escaped.
Njihovi su im izašli u susret iz grada, i tako se oni iz Aja nađoše posred Izraelaca, opkoljeni i s jedne i s druge strane: biše pobijeni tako te ni jedan ne ostade živ niti uteče.
23 And they took the king of Gai alive, and brought him to Joshua.
A kralja Aja uhvatiše živa i dovedoše ga Jošui.
24 And when the children of Israel had ceased slaying all that were in Gai, and in the fields, and in the mountain on the descent, from whence they pursued them [even] to the end, then Joshua returned to Gai, and struck it with the edge of the sword.
Kad su Izraelci pobili sve stanovnike Aja na otvorenu polju i u pustinji, kuda su ih gonili, i kada svi padoše od mača, vratiše se Izraelci u Aj i sasjekoše mačem sve što bješe u njemu.
25 And they that fell in that day, men and women, were twelve thousand: [they killed] all the inhabitants of Gai.
Bilo je dvanaest tisuća onih koji su izginuli toga dana, ljudi i žena - sav Aj.
Jošua nije spuštao ruke kojom bijaše zamahnuo kopljem sve dok nisu poubijani svi stanovnici Aja.
27 Beside the spoils that were in the city, all things which the children of Israel took as spoil for themselves according to the command of the Lord, as the Lord commanded Joshua.
Samo stoku i plijen iz onoga grada razdijele među sobom Izraelci, kao što je Jahve zapovjedio Jošui.
28 And Joshua burnt the city with fire: he made it an uninhabited heap for ever, [even] to this day.
Jošua spali Aj i učini ga za sve vijeke ruševinom, pustim mjestom do danas.
29 And he hanged the king of Gai on a gallows; and he remained on the tree till evening: and when the sun went down, Joshua gave charge, and they took down his body from the tree, and cast it into a pit, and they set over him a heap of stones until this day.
Kralja ajskoga objesi o drvo do večeri. O zapadu sunčanom zapovjedi Jošua te skinuše truplo s drveta, baciše ga pred gradska vrata i nabacaše na nj veliku gomilu kamenja, koja stoji i danas.
30 Then Joshua built an altar to the Lord God of Israel in mount Gaebal,
Tada podiže Jošua žrtvenik Jahvi, Bogu Izraelovu, na gori Ebalu,
31 as Moses the servant of the Lord commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the law of Moses, an altar of unhewn stones, on which iron had not been lifted up; and he offered there whole burnt offerings to the Lord, and a peace-offering.
kao što je zapovjedio Mojsije, sluga Jahvin, svim sinovima Izraelovim i kako je napisano u Mojsijevoj knjizi Zakona: žrtvenik od grubog kamena, neklesanog željezom. Na njemu bi prinesena Jahvi žrtva paljenica i pričesnica.
32 And Joshua wrote upon the stones a copy of the law, even the law of Moses, before the children of Israel.
Tu na kamenju Jošua prepiše Zakon Mojsijev koji bješe napisan za sinove Izraelove.
33 And all Israel, and their elders, and their judges, and their scribes, passed on one side and on the other before the ark; and the priests and the Levites took up the ark of the covenant of the Lord; and the stranger and the native were there, who were half of them near mount Garizin, and half near mount Gaebal, as Moses the servant of the Lord commanded at first, to bless the people.
I sav Izrael i njegove starješine, glavari narodni i suci, došljaci i domaći, stanu s obje strane Kovčega prema svećenicima i levitima koji su nosili Kovčeg saveza Jahvina - polovina prema gori Gerizimu, a polovina prema gori Ebalu - da bi se blagoslovio puk Izraelov prema obredu koji zapovjedi Mojsije.
34 And afterwards Joshua read accordingly all the words of this law, the blessings and the curses, according to all things written in the law of Moses.
Tada pročita Jošua svaku riječ Zakona, blagoslov i prokletstvo, sve kako je napisano u knjizi Zakona.
35 There was not a word of all that Moses charged Joshua, which Joshua read not in the ears of all the assembly of the children of Israel, the men, and the women, and the children, and the strangers that joined themselves to Israel.
Nije Jošua propustio nijedne Mojsijeve naredbe, nego ih je sve pročitao pred saborom svih Izraelaca, pred ženama, djecom i došljacima koji su išli s njima.
