Jozue 8
1 Gospod je rekel Józuetu: »Ne boj se niti ne bodi zaprepaden. S seboj vzemi vse bojno ljudstvo in se dvigni, pojdi gor do Aja. Glej, v tvojo roko sem izročil ajskega kralja, njegovo ljudstvo, njegovo mesto in njegovo deželo.
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 Aju in njegovemu kralju boš storil, kakor si storil Jerihi in njenemu kralju. Samo njegov plen in njegovo živino si boste zaplenili. Zadaj za mestom si postavi zasedo.«
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 Tako je Józue vstal in vse bojno ljudstvo, da gredo gor zoper Aj. Józue je izbral trideset tisoč močnih junaških mož in jih ponoči odposlal.
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 Zapovedal jim je, rekoč: »Glejte, prežali boste v zasedi zoper mesto, torej za mestom. Ne pojdite zelo daleč od mesta, temveč vsi bodite pripravljeni.
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 Jaz in vse ljudstvo, ki je z menoj, se bomo približali mestu in zgodilo se bo, ko bodo prišli ven zoper nas, kakor prvič, da bomo pobegnili pred njimi,
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 (kajti prišli bodo ven za nami), dokler jih ne bomo pritegnili iz mesta, kajti rekli bodo: ›Pred nami bežijo, kakor prvič.‹ Zato bomo pobegnili pred njimi.
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 Potem boste vstali iz zasede in se polastili mesta, kajti Gospod, vaš Bog, ga bo izročil v vašo roko.
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 Zgodilo se bo, ko boste zavzeli mesto, da boste požgali mesto. Glede na Gospodovo zapoved boste storili. Poglejte, zapovedal sem vam.«
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 Józue jih je torej poslal naprej in odšli so, da ležijo v zasedi in ostanejo med Betelom in Ajem, na zahodni strani Aja. Toda Józue je to noč prenočil med ljudstvom.
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 Józue je vstal zgodaj zjutraj, preštel ljudstvo in odšel gor, on in Izraelovi starešine, pred ljudstvo Aja.
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 Vse ljudstvo, celo bojno ljudstvo, ki je bilo z njim, je odšlo gor, se približalo, prišlo pred mesto in se utaborilo na severni strani Aja. Torej tam je bila dolina med njimi in Ajem.
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 Vzel je okoli pet tisoč mož in jih postavil, da ležijo v zasedi med Betelom in Ajem, na zahodni strani mesta.
He took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.
13 Ko so postavili ljudstvo, torej vso vojsko, ki je bila na severu mesta in svoje prežavce v zasedi na zahodni strani mesta, je to noč Józue odšel v sredo doline.
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 Ko je kralj Aja to videl, se je pripetilo, da so pohiteli in zgodaj vstali in možje iz mesta so odšli ven zoper Izraela, da se bojujejo, on in vse njegovo ljudstvo, ob določenem času pred ravnino. Toda ni vedel, da so bili za mestom zoper njega prežavci v zasedi.
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 Józue in ves Izrael so se pretvarjali kakor bi bili poraženi pred njimi in pobegnili po poti divjine.
Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.
16 Vse ljudstvo, ki je bilo v Aju, je bilo sklicano skupaj, da jih zasledujejo. Zasledovali so Józueta in bili so pritegnjeni proč iz mesta.
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 V Aju ali v Betelu ni ostal niti mož, ki ne bi odšel ven za Izraelom in mesto so pustili odprto in sledili za Izraelom.
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 Gospod je rekel Józuetu: »Iztegni sulico, ki je v tvoji roki, zoper Aj, kajti jaz ga bom dal v tvojo roko.« Józue je zoper mesto iztegnil sulico, ki jo je imel v svoji roki.
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 Zaseda je hitro vstala iz svojega kraja in stekli so takoj, ko je iztegnil svojo roko. Vstopili so v mesto, ga zavzeli, pohiteli in mesto zažgali.
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 Ko so možje iz Aja pogledali za seboj, so videli in glej, dim iz mesta se je dvigoval proti nebu in niso imeli moči, da pobegnejo to pot ali tisto pot. Ljudstvo, ki je bežalo k divjini, se je obrnilo nazaj proti zasledovalcem.
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 Ko je Józue in ves Izrael videl, da je zaseda zavzela mesto in da se iz mesta dviguje dim, potem so se ponovno obrnili in usmrtili može iz Aja.
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 In drugi so izšli iz mesta zoper njih. Tako so bili v sredi Izraela, nekateri na tej strani in nekateri na oni strani in udarili so jih tako, da nobenega izmed njih niso pustili ostati ali pobegniti.
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 Kralja Aja so prijeli živega in ga privedli pred Józueta.
They captured the king of Ai alive, and brought him to Joshua.
24 Ko je Izrael naredil konec pobijanju vseh prebivalcev Aja na polju, v divjini, kjer so jih zasledovali in ko so vsi padli pod ostrino meča, dokler niso bili použiti, se je pripetilo, da so se vsi Izraelci vrnili v Aj in ga udarili z ostrino meča.
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 Bilo je tako, da je bilo vseh, ki so ta dan padli, tako mož in žensk, dvanajst tisoč, torej vsi možje iz Aja.
All that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the people of Ai.
26 Kajti Józue svoje roke, s katero je iztegnil sulico, ni potegnil nazaj, dokler ni popolnoma uničil vseh prebivalcev Aja.
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 Samo živino in ukradeno blago iz mesta si je Izrael vzel za plen, glede na Gospodovo besedo, ki jo je zapovedal Józuetu.
Israel took for themselves only the livestock and the goods of that city, according to the LORD’s word which he commanded Joshua.
28 Józue je požgal Aj in ga naredil kup na veke, opustošenje do današnjega dne.
So Joshua burnt Ai and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day.
29 Ajskega kralja je obesil na drevo do večera in takoj, ko je sonce zašlo, je Józue zapovedal, da njegovo truplo vzamejo dol iz drevesa in ga odvržejo pri vhodu velikih vrat mesta in nad njim naložijo velik kup kamenja, ki ostaja do tega dne.
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 Potem je Józue zgradil oltar Gospodu, Izraelovemu Bogu, na gori Ebál,
Then Joshua built an altar to the LORD, the God of Israel, on Mount Ebal,
31 kakor je Gospodov služabnik Mojzes zapovedal Izraelovim otrokom, kakor je to zapisano v knjigi Mojzesove postave, oltar iz celih kamnov, nad katere noben človek ni dvignil nobenega železa in na njem so darovali žgalne daritve Gospodu in žrtvovali mirovne daritve.
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 Na kamne je napisal prepis iz Mojzesove postave, ki jo je napisal v prisotnosti Izraelovih otrok.
He wrote there on the stones a copy of Moses’ law, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.
33 Ves Izrael, njihove starešine, častniki in njihovi sodniki, so stali na tej strani skrinje in na oni strani, pred duhovniki Lévijevci, ki so nosili skrinjo Gospodove zaveze, kakor tudi tujec, kakor ta, ki je bil rojen med njimi. Polovica izmed njih nasproti gore Garizím in polovica izmed njih nasproti gore Ebál, kakor je Gospodov služabnik Mojzes prej zapovedal, da bodo blagoslovili izraelsko ljudstvo.
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 Potem je bral vse besede iz postave, blagoslove in prekletstva, glede na vse, kar je zapisano v knjigi postave.
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 Ni bilo besede od vsega, kar je Mojzes zapovedal, česar Józue ni prebral pred vso Izraelovo skupnostjo, z ženskami, malčki in tujci, ki so bili seznanjeni med njimi.
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.
