Josué 8
1 Yavé dijo a Josué: ¡No temas ni desmayes! Toma contigo a toda la gente de guerra. Vé y sube a Hai. Mira, Yo entregué en tu mano al rey de Hai, 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 Tú harás con Hai y su rey como hiciste con Jericó y su rey, solo que podrán tomar para ustedes su botín y su ganado. Prepara una emboscada contra la ciudad, por detrás.
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 Josué se levantó con toda la gente de guerra para subir contra Hai. Escogió Josué 30.000 hombres fuertes, a los cuales 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 mandó: Miren, pondrán una emboscada a la ciudad, detrás de ella. No se alejen mucho de la ciudad, y estén 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 Después yo y todo el pueblo que está conmigo nos acercaremos a la ciudad, y cuando ellos salgan contra nosotros, como hicieron antes, huiremos delante de 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 Ellos saldrán tras nosotros, y haremos que se aparten de la ciudad, porque dirán: ¡Huyen de nosotros como la primera vez!
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 Mientras huimos de ellos, ustedes saldrán de la emboscada y tomarán la ciudad, pues Yavé su ʼElohim la entregó en su 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 la ocupen, la incendiarán con fuego. Harán conforme a la Palabra de Yavé. Miren que se lo mandé.
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 Entonces Josué los envió, y fueron a la emboscada. Se ubicaron entre Bet-ʼEl y Hai, al occidente de Hai. Josué pasó aquella noche en medio del pueblo.
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 muy de mañana, pasó revista al pueblo, y subió al frente del pueblo contra Hai junto con los ancianos de Israel.
Early the next morning, Joshua gathered his soldiers together. Then he and the other Israeli leaders led them up to Ai.
11 Toda la gente de guerra que lo acompañaba subió también y se acercaban hasta llegar frente a la ciudad. Acamparon al lado norte de Hai, y dejó el valle por medio 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 Entonces tomó unos 5.000 hombres, y los emboscó entre Bet-ʼEl y Hai, al occidente 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 dispusieron al pueblo: todo el ejército al norte de la ciudad, y su retaguardia al occidente de la ciudad, mientras Josué pasó la noche en el medio 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 Sucedió que cuando el rey de Hai vio esto, los hombres de la ciudad se apresuraron. Él y todo su pueblo madrugaron y salieron a la batalla contra Israel en el lugar designado frente al Arabá, pero 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 Entonces Josué y todo Israel fingieron que estaban derrotados 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 se apartaron 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 ni un hombre en Hai o en Bet-ʼEl que no saliera a perseguir a Israel, y dejaron abierta la ciudad.
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 Entonces Yavé dijo a Josué: Extiende la lanza que llevas en tu mano hacia Hai, porque la entregaré en tu mano. Y Josué extendió hacia la ciudad la lanza que tenía en su mano.
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 Tan pronto como él la extendió, los emboscados salieron rápidamente de su lugar y corrieron. Entraron en la ciudad, la capturaron y se apresuraron a ponerle fuego.
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 volvieron la cara y miraron, ciertamente la humareda de la ciudad subía al cielo. No tuvieron lugar para huir, ni por un lado ni por el otro, porque el pueblo que huía al desierto regresó contra sus 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 Pues Josué y todo Israel, al ver que los de la emboscada habían tomado la ciudad, y que la humareda de la ciudad subía, regresaron y atacaron 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 otros salieron de la ciudad a su encuentro, y así quedaron en medio de Israel, unos por una parte y otros por la otra. Así los mataron hasta que no quedó algún sobreviviente ni fugitivo.
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 Pero el rey de Hai fue capturado vivo y lo llevaron a Josué.
Then they seized the king of Ai and brought him to Joshua.
24 Cuando Israel puso fin a la matanza de todos los habitantes de Hai en el campo, aun en el desierto hasta donde los persiguieron, y todos cayeron a filo de espada hasta que fueron consumidos, sucedió que todo Israel regresó a Hai y la arrasaron 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 Los que cayeron en aquel día, hombres y mujeres, fueron 12.000, todos los de Hai,
They killed 12,000 men and women.
26 porque Josué no retrajo su mano con la cual sostenía la lanza hasta que exterminó 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 tomó como botín solo los animales y el despojo de la ciudad, conforme a la Palabra que Yavé ordenó 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 Luego Josué incendió a Hai y la redujo a un montón de ruinas perpetuas, una desolación que se mantiene hasta 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 de un árbol al rey de Hai hasta la llegada de la noche, pero al ocultarse el sol, Josué dio orden para que bajaran su cadáver del árbol. Lo echaron en la entrada de la ciudad e hicieron levantar sobre él un gran montón de piedras, que permanece hasta 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 Yavé ʼElohim de Israel en la montaña 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, esclavo de Yavé, ordenó a los hijos de Israel, según está escrito en el Rollo de la Ley de Moisés, un altar de piedras sin labrar sobre las cuales ningún hombre alzó herramientas de hierro. Ofrecieron holocaustos y sacrificaron ofrendas de paz a Yavé sobre él.
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 [Josué] escribió allí sobre las piedras una copia de la Ley de Moisés, la cual 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, sus ancianos, oficiales y jueces, estaban en pie a ambos lados del Arca, ante los sacerdotes levitas que cargaban el Arca del Pacto de Yavé. Tanto extranjeros como naturales, la mitad estaba frente a la montaña Gerizim, y la otra mitad frente a la montaña Ebal, tal como Moisés esclavo de Yavé ordenó la primera vez para que bendijeran 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 de esto, [Josué] leyó todas las Palabras de la Ley: la bendición y la maldición, conforme a todo lo que está escrito en el Rollo 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 ordenó, que Josué no leyera frente a toda la congregación de Israel, tanto a mujeres como a pequeños, y al extranjero que andaba en medio de 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.
