Joshua 8
1 The LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid, and do not 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.
Le hoe t’Iehovà am’Iehosoa: Ko hemban-drehe, ko manahelo; miavota naho endeso mindre ama’o mb’e Ày mb’eo ze hene lahin-defoñe, Inao fa natoloko am-pità’o ty mpanjaka’ i Ày naho ondati’eo naho i rova’ey vaho i tane’ey.
2 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.”
Hanoe’o amy Ày naho amy mpanjaka’ey hambañe amy nanoa’o am’ Ieriko naho i mpanjaka’eiy; fe ho tana’ areo ho tsindro’ areo o vara’eo, naho o añombe’eo, Vandroño boak’ am-boho’e ao i rovay.
3 So Joshua arose, with all the warriors, to go up to Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and sent them out by night.
Aa le niongake t’Iehosoa rekets’ o hene’ lahin-defoñeo, hionjoñe mb’e Ày mb’eo; jinobo’ Iehosoa ty lahilahy telo-ale, fanalolahy mahavany, vaho nirahe’e mb’eo haleñe.
4 He commanded them, saying, “Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city. Do not go very far from the city, but all of you be ready.
Nafanto’e ami’ty hoe: Inao! hiampitse amboho’ i rovay nahareo hamandroñe i rovay, ko halavira’ areo i rovay, vaho fonga mihentseña.
5 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.
Zaho reketse ze hene’ ondaty amako ro higodañe mb’ amy rovay mb’eo; ie amy zao, naho miakatse hañoridañe anay iereo manahake i teoy, le handripak’ an-day añatrefa’ iareo zahay.
6 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,
Ie miakatse hañoridañe anay, naho fa tinari’ay hisitak’ amy rovay le hanao ty hoe: Hehe t’ie milay an-tikañe manahake tam-pifotora’ey. Zay ty hilaisa’ay aolo’ iareo mb’eo.
7 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.
Hiongak’ am-piampirañe amy zao nahareo hitavañe i rovay; fa hatolo’ Iehovà Andrianañahare’ areo am-pità’ areo.
8 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.”
Ie nivotrake amy rovay, le ampiforeheto añ’ afo i rovay; i tsinara’ Iehovày ty hanoa’ areo aze; inay, fa liniliko.
9 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 among the people that night.
Aa le nampionjone’ Iehosa; le nimb’eo iereo niampitse, naho nitobe añivo’ i Betele naho i Ày ahandrefa’ i Ày ao; nialeñe am’ ondatio avao t’Iehosoa.
10 Joshua rose up early in the morning, mustered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.
Nañampitso amy loak’ àndroy t’Iehosoa, le nitehafe’e ondatio vaho nionjoñe mb’eo, ie naho o mpiaolo’ Israeleo ty niaolo ondatio mb’e Ày añe.
11 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.
Aa le nionjom’ beo iaby ondaty nindre ama’eo, o lahindefoñeo, naho nañarine mb’eo, le nijohañe tandrife i rovay, vaho nitobe avara’ i Ày ey; toe añivo’e naho i Ày eo ty vavatane.
12 He took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.
Nandrambe lahilahy va’e lime-arivo re vaho nampiampire’e añivo’ i Betele naho i Ày ahandrefa’ i rovay.
13 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.
Aa le nisalahàñe i maroiy: i lahialeñe avara’ i rovaiy naho o nivolio am-piampirañe ahandrefa’ i rovay ao; le nimb’ añ’ ivo’ i vavataney hialeñe t’Iehosoa.
14 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 did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.
Ie amy zao, naho nahaoniñe zay ty mpanjaka’ i Ay le nalisa niongake maraindray o lahilahi’ i rovaio vaho niakatse hiambotrak’ am’ Israele an-kotakotake, ie naho ondati’e iabio, mb’ amy namotoañañey, aolo’ i Arabày; fe tsy napota’e te amboho’ i rovay ty nivoñoñe aze.
15 Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.
Nanao sare gioke aolo’ iareo t’Iehosoa naho Israele iaby, le nandripàke mb’ an-dala’ i fatrambeiy mb’eo.
16 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.
Aa le kinoike iaby ondati’ i Aio hifanontoñe, hañoridàñe; le nihoridà’ iareo t’Iehosoa, nisitake amy rovay.
17 There was not a man left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel. They left the city open, and pursued Israel.
Tsy nengaeñe ondaty ty e Ay ndra e Betele ao ze tsy niakatse hañotroke Israele; napo’ iareo nisokake i rovay le nañoridañe Israele.
18 The LORD said to Joshua, “Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand.” Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.
Aa le hoe t’Iehovà am’ Iehosoa: Atora-kitsio mb’amy Ay i lefoñe am-pità’oy; fa hatoloko am-pità’o. Aa le nahiti’ Iehosoa mb’ amy rovay i lefoñe am-pità’ey.
19 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.
Nivoratsake boak’ an-toe’e ao amy zao o niampitseo; namorehetse ty lay mb’eo ty amy nañitia’e i fità’eiy naho nimoak’ amy rovay ao, nitavañe aze, vaho namiañe afo amy rovay.
20 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.
Aa ie nitolike naho niisake mañamboho o lahilahi’ i Aio, ingo nañatoeñe mb’ an-dikeramb’eo i rovay, le tsy nioniñe ty hipotatsaha’ iareo ke mb’ atia he mb’ etia amy te nibalike mb’ amo nañoridañe iareoo mb’eo o nilay mb’ ampatrambeio.
21 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.
Naho nioni’ Iehosoa naho Israele iaby te tinava’ o nanàmpokeo i rovay naho te nionjoñe mañambone ty hatoe’ i rovay, le nibalike, vaho zinama’ iareo o lahilahi’ i Aio.
22 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.
Niakatse i rovay ka o ila’eo hifañatrek’ am’ iareo; aa le niarikoboña’ Israele, etia ty ila’e, atia ty ila’e, vaho binaibai’e iereo ampara’ t’ie po-sehanga’e leo raike tsy nahapoliotse.
23 They captured the king of Ai alive, and brought him to Joshua.
Nenga’ iereo veloñe ty mpanjaka’ i Ay vaho nasese mb’ am’ Iehosoa mb’eo.
24 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.
Ie nihenefe’ Israele zamañe o mpimone’ i Ay an-kivoke eio naho i ampatrañe ey nañoridañe iareo rezay, toe nampitsingoritriem-pibara ampara’ t’ie nimongotse, le hene nitolike mb’e Ay mb’eo t’Israele, nanjevoñ’ aze an-dela-pibara.
25 All that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the people of Ai.
Ty hamaro nikorovok’ amy andro zay amo lahilahy naho rakembao, le rai-ale-tsi-ro’arivo—ze hene’ondati’ i Ay.
26 For Joshua did not draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
Tsy nafore’ Iehosoa ty fità’e nañity i lefoñey ampara’ te nimongore’e ze fonga mpimone’ i Ay.
27 Israel took for themselves only the livestock and the goods of that city, according to the LORD’s word which he commanded Joshua.
O añombeo naho i vara-fikopa’ i rovay avao ty tinava’ Israele ho fitsindro’e ty amy tsara linili’ Iehovà am’Iehosoay.
28 So Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day.
Aa le finorototo’ Iehosoa ty Ay naho nanoe’e tamboho tsy modo, toe hoake ampara’ henane.
29 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.
Naradorado’e an-katae ty mpanjaka’ i Ay ampara’ te hariva; ie tsofots’ andro le nandily t’Iehosoa naho nazotso’ iareo amy hataey i lolo’ey, naho navokovoko an-dalam-bei’ i rovay vaho naonjoñe ama’e ty votrim-bato jabajaba mbe eo henanekeo.
30 Then Joshua built an altar to the LORD, the God of Israel, on Mount Ebal,
Le namboara’ Iehosoa kitrely t’Iehovà, Andrianañahare’ Israele, am-bohi’ Ebale eo
31 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.
ty amy nandilia’ i Mosè mpitoro’ Iehovà o ana’ Israeleoy, manahake i sinokitse amy boke Hà’ i Mosèiy, kitrely vato tsy pinèke, tsy nañonjonañe viñe; naho nibanabanae’ iareo soroñe am’ Iehovà, vaho nandenta engan-kanintsiñe.
32 He wrote there on the stones a copy of Moses’ law, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.
Sinoki’e amo vatoo ty hambañe amy Tsara’ i Mosèy, nisokire’e añatrefa’ o ana’ Israeleo.
33 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.
Hene nijohañe añ’ila’ i vatam-pañinay etoy naho añ’ ila’e eroy añatrefa’ o mpisoroñe nte-Levy nitarazo i vatam-pañina’ Iehovàio t’Israele naho o mpiaolo’eo naho o mpifehe’eo vaho o mpizaka’eo sindre tao ty renetane naho t’indaty; ty ila’e aolo’ i vohi-Gerizimey naho ty ila’e aolo’ i vohi-Ebaley; ty amy nandilia’ i Mosè mpitoro’ Iehovà am-baloha’ey, hitatàñe o ana’ Israeleo.
34 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.
Modo zay le vinaki’e o enta’ i Hake iabio, o tatao naho o fatseo, ze hene sinokitse amy boke’ i Hake ao.
35 There was not a word of all that Moses commanded which Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel, with the women, the little ones, and the foreigners who were among them.
Ndra raik’ amo tsara linili’ i Mosèo tsy nado’ Iehosoa fa hene nivakie añatrefam-pivori-bei’ Israele, naho amo rakembao, naho amo keleiañeo vaho amo renetane niharo am’ iereoo.
