ヨシュア記 8
1 茲にヱホバ、ヨシユアに言たまひけるは懼るる勿れ戰慄なかれ軍人をことごとく率ゐ起てアイに攻のぼれ視よ我アイの王およびその民その邑その地を都て汝の手に授く
The LORD said to Joshua, “Don’t be afraid, and don’t be dismayed. Take all the warriors with you, and arise, go up to Ai. Behold, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, with his people, his city, and his land.
2 汝さきにヱリコとその王とに爲し如くアイとその王とに爲べし今回は其貨財およびその家畜を奪ひて自ら取べし汝まづ邑の後に伏兵を設くべしと
You shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king, except you shall take its goods and its livestock for yourselves. Set an ambush for the city behind it.”
3 ヨシユアすなはち起あがり軍人をことごとく將てアイに攻のぼらんとしまづ大勇士三萬人を選びて夜の中にこれを遣はせり
So Joshua arose, with all the warriors, to go up to Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valour, and sent them out by night.
4 ヨシユアこれに命じて言く汝らは邑に對ひて邑の後に伏すべし邑に遠く離れをる勿れ皆準備をなして待をれ
He commanded them, saying, “Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city. Don’t go very far from the city, but all of you be ready.
5 我と我に從がふ民みな共に邑に攻よせん而して彼らが初のごとく我らにむかひて打出んとき我らは彼らの前より逃はしらん
I and all the people who are with me will approach the city. It shall happen, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them.
6 然せば彼ら我らを追て出來べければ我等つひに之を邑より誘き出すことを得ん其は彼等いはんこの人衆は初めのごとくまた我等の前より逃ぐと斯てわれらその前より逃はしらん
They will come out after us until we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, ‘They flee before us, like the first time.’ So we will flee before them,
7 汝らその伏をる處より起りて邑を取べし汝らの神ヱホバ之を汝らの手に付したまふべし
and you shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city; for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.
8 汝ら邑を乗取たらば邑に火を放ちヱホバの言詞の如く爲べし我これを汝らに命ず努よやと
It shall be, when you have seized the city, that you shall set the city on fire. You shall do this according to the LORD’s word. Behold, I have commanded you.”
9 かくてヨシユアかれらを遣はしければ即はち往てアイの西の方にてベテルとアイとの間に身を伏せたりヨシユアはその夜民の中に宿れり
Joshua sent them out; and they went to set up the ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai on the west side of Ai; but Joshua stayed amongst the people that night.
10 ヨシユア朝はやく興いでて民をあつめイスラエルの長老等とともに民に先だちてアイにのぼりゆけり
Joshua rose up early in the morning, mustered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.
11 彼に從がふ軍人ことごとく上りゆきて攻寄せ邑の前に至りてアイの北に陣をとれり彼とアイの間には一の谷ありき
All the people, even the men of war who were with him, went up and came near, and came before the city and encamped on the north side of Ai. Now there was a valley between him and Ai.
12 ヨシユア五千人許を擧て邑の西の方にてベテルとアイとの間にこれを伏せおけり
He took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.
13 かく民の全軍を邑の北に置きその伏兵を邑の西に置てヨシユアその夜谷の中にいりぬ
So they set the people, even all the army who was on the north of the city, and their ambush on the west of the city; and Joshua went that night into the middle of the valley.
14 アイの王これを視しかばその邑の人々みな急ぎて蚤に起き進み出てイスラエルと戰ひけるが預て諜しあはせ置る頃には王とその一切の民アラバの前に進み來れり王は邑の後に伏兵ありて已を伺ふを知らざりき
When the king of Ai saw it, they hurried and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the time appointed, before the Arabah; but he didn’t know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.
15 時にヨシユア、イスラエルの一切の人とともに彼らに打負し状して荒野の路を指て逃はしりしかば
Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.
16 その邑の民みな之を追撃んとて呼はり集まりヨシユアの後を追て邑を出離れ
All the people who were in the city were called together to pursue after them. They pursued Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.
17 アイにもベテルにもイスラエルを追ゆかずして遺りをる者は一人もなく皆邑を開き放してイスラエルの後を追り
There was not a man left in Ai or Bethel who didn’t go out after Israel. They left the city open, and pursued Israel.
18 時にヱホバ、ヨシユアに言たまはく汝の手にある矛をアイの方に指伸よ我これを汝の手に授くべしとヨシユアすなはち己の手にある矛をアイの方に指伸るに
The LORD said to Joshua, “Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand towards Ai, for I will give it into your hand.” Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand towards the city.
19 伏兵たちまち其處より起りヨシユアが手を伸ると齊しく奔きたりて邑に打いり之を取りて直に邑に火をかけたり
The ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand and entered into the city and took it. They hurried and set the city on fire.
20 茲にアイの人々背をふりかへりて觀しに邑の焚る煙天に立騰りゐたれば此へも彼へも逃るに術なかりき斯る機しも荒野に逃ゆける民も身をかへして其追きたる者等に逼れり
When the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way. The people who fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers.
21 ヨシユアおよび一切のイスラエル人伏兵の邑を取て邑の焚る煙の立騰るを見身を還してアイの人々を殺しけるが
When Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned back and killed the men of Ai.
22 かの兵また邑より出きたりて彼らに向ひければ彼方にも此方にもイスラエル人ありて彼らはその中間に挾まれぬイスラエル人かくして彼らを攻撃て一人をも餘さず逃さず
The others came out of the city against them, so they were in the middle of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side. They struck them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.
23 つひにアイの王を生擒てヨシユアの許に曳きたれり
They captured the king of Ai alive, and brought him to Joshua.
24 イスラエル人己を荒野に追きたりしアイの民をことごとく野に殺し刃をもてこれを仆し盡すにおよびて皆アイに歸り刃をもてこれを撃ほろぼせり
When Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they pursued them, and they had all fallen by the edge of the sword until they were consumed, all Israel returned to Ai and struck it with the edge of the sword.
25 その日アイの人々ことごとく斃れたりその數男女あはせて一萬二千人
All that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the people of Ai.
26 ヨシユア、アイの民をことごとく滅ぼし絶まではその矛を指伸たる手を垂ざりき
For Joshua didn’t draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
27 但しその邑の家畜および貨財はイスラエル人これを奪ひて自ら取り是はヱホバのヨシユアに命じたまひし言に依なり
Israel took for themselves only the livestock and the goods of that city, according to the LORD’s word which he commanded Joshua.
28 ヨシユア、アイを燬て永くこれを墟垤とならしむ是は今日まで荒地となりをる
So Joshua burnt Ai and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day.
29 ヨシユアまたアイの王を薄暮まで木に掛てさらし日の沒におよびて命じてその死骸を木より取おろさしめ邑の門の入口にこれを投すて其上に石の大垤を積おこせり其は今日まで存る
He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until the evening. At sundown, Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised a great heap of stones on it that remains to this day.
30 かくてヨシユア、エバル山にてイスラエルの神ヱホバに一の壇を築けり
Then Joshua built an altar to the LORD, the God of Israel, on Mount Ebal,
31 是はヱホバの僕モーセがイスラエルの子孫に命ぜしことに本づきモーセの律法の書に記されたる所に循がひて新石をもて作れる壇にて何人も鐵器をその上に振あげず人衆その上にてヱホバに燔祭を献げ酬恩祭を供ふ
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 uncut stones, on which no one had lifted up any iron. They offered burnt offerings on it to the LORD and sacrificed peace offerings.
32 彼處にてヨシユア、モーセの書しるしし律法をイスラエルの子孫の前にて石に書うつせり
He wrote there on the stones a copy of Moses’ law, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.
33 かくてイスラエルの一切の人およびその長老官吏裁判人など他國の者も本國の者も打まじりてヱホバの契約の櫃を舁る祭司等レビ人の前にあたりて櫃の此旁と彼旁に分れ半はゲリジム山の前に半はエバル山の前に立り是ヱホバの僕モーセの命ぜし所にしたがひて最初に先イスラエルの民を祝せんとてなり
All Israel, with their elders, officers, and judges, stood on both sides of the ark before the Levitical priests, who carried the ark of the LORD’s covenant, the foreigner as well as the native; half of them in front of Mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel.
34 然る後ヨシユア律法の書に凡てしるされたる所に循ひて祝福と呪詛とにかかはる律法の言をことごとく誦り
Afterward 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 モーセの命じたる一切の言の中にヨシユアがイスラエルの全會衆および婦人子等ならびにイスラエルの中にをる他國の人の前にて誦ざるは無りき
There was not a word of all that Moses commanded which Joshua didn’t read before all the assembly of Israel, with the women, the little ones, and the foreigners who were amongst them.
