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.
Иза тога рече Господ Исусу: Не бој се и не плаши се; узми са собом сав народ што је за бој, па устани и иди на Гај; ево предадох ти у руке цара гајског и народ његов и град његов и земљу његову.
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.”
И учини с Гајем и царем његовим како си учинио с Јерихоном и његовим царем; али плен из њега и стоку његову разграбите за се. Намести заседу иза града.
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.
И уста Исус и сав народ што беше за бој, да иду на Гај; и изабра Исус тридесет хиљада јунака, и посла их ноћу;
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.
И заповеди им говорећи: Гледајте ви који ћете бити у заседи иза града, да не будете врло далеко од града, него будите сви готови.
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.
А ја и сав народ што је са мном примакнућемо се ка граду; па кад они изађу пред нас, ми ћемо као и пре побећи испред њих.
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,
Те ће они поћи за нама докле их не одвојимо од града, јер ће рећи: Беже испред нас као и пре. И ми ћемо бежати испред њих.
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.
Тада ви изађите из заседе и истерајте из града шта буде остало. Јер ће вам га дати Господ Бог ваш у руке.
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.”
А кад узмете град, запалите га огњем; по речи Господњој учините. Ето, заповедио сам вам.
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.
Тако их посла Исус, и они одоше у заседу, и стадоше између Ветиља и Гаја, са запада Гају; а Исус преноћи ону ноћ међу народом.
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.
А ујутру уста Исус рано и преброја народ, па пође са старешинама Израиљевим пред народом на Гај.
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.
И сва војска што беше с њим пође и примакавши се дођоше према граду и стадоше у логор са севера Гају; а беше долина између њих и Гаја.
12 He took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.
И узе око пет хиљада људи, и намести их у заседу између Ветиља и Гаја, са запада граду Гају.
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.
И кад се намести сав народ, сва војска, што беше са севера граду и што беше у заседи са запада граду, изађе Исус ону ноћ усред долине.
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.
И кад то виде цар гајски, људи у граду похиташе и уранише; и изађоше онај час у поље пред Израиља у бој, цар и сав народ његов. А не знаше да има заседа за њим, иза града.
15 Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.
Тада Исус и сав Израиљ, као да их побише, нагоше бежати к пустињи.
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.
А они сазваше сав народ што беше у граду да их терају. И тераше Исуса, и одвојише се од свог града.
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.
И не оста нико у Гају ни у Ветиљу да не пође за Израиљем; и оставише град отворен, и тераху Израиља.
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.
Тада рече Господ Исусу: Дигни заставу што ти је у руци према Гају, јер ћу ти га дати у руке. И подиже Исус заставу што му беше у руци према граду.
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.
А они што беху у заседи одмах усташе са свог места, и потрчаше чим он подиже руку своју, и уђоше у град и узеше га, и брзо запалише град огњем.
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.
А кад се Гајани обазреше, а то дим од града дизаше се до неба, и не имаху куда бежати ни тамо ни амо; а народ који бежаше у пустињу поврати се на оне који га тераху.
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.
И Исус и сав Израиљ видевши да је заседа њихова узела град и где се диже дим од града, вратише се и ударише на Гајане.
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.
А они из града изађоше пред њих, те беху међу Израиљцима одовуд и одонуд, и побише их тако да ниједан не оста жив нити утече.
23 They captured the king of Ai alive, and brought him to Joshua.
А цара гајског ухватише живог и доведоше к Исусу.
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.
А кад побише Израиљци све Гајане у пољу, у пустињи, куда их гонише, и падоше сви од оштрог мача, те се истребише, онда се вратише сви Израиљци у Гај, и исекоше шта још беше у њему оштрим мачем.
25 All that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the people of Ai.
А свих што изгибоше онај дан, и људи и жена, беше дванаест хиљада, самих Гајана.
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.
И Исус не спусти руку своју, коју беше подигао са заставом, док не побише све становнике гајске.
27 Israel took for themselves only the livestock and the goods of that city, according to the LORD’s word which he commanded Joshua.
Само стоку и плен из града оног разграбише Израиљци за се, као што беше Господ заповедио Исусу.
28 So Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day.
И Исус спали Гај, и обрати га у гомилу вечну, и у пустош до данашњег дана.
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.
А цара гајског обеси на дрво и остави до вечера; а о заходу сунчаном заповеди Исус те скидоше тело његово с дрвета и бацише пред врата градска, и набацаше на њ велику гомилу камења, која стоји и данас.
30 Then Joshua built an altar to the LORD, the God of Israel, on Mount Ebal,
Тада Исус начини олтар Господу Богу Израиљевом на гори Евалу,
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.
Као што беше заповедио Мојсије слуга Господњи синовима Израиљевим, као што пише у књизи закона Мојсијевог, олтар од целог камења, преко ког није превучено гвожђе; и принесоше на њему жртве паљенице Господу, и принесоше жртве захвалне.
32 He wrote there on the stones a copy of Moses’ law, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.
И преписа онде на камењу закон Мојсијев, који је написао синовима Израиљевим.
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.
И сав Израиљ и старешине његове и управитељи и судије његове стадоше с обе стране ковчега, према свештеницима Левитима, који ношаху ковчег завета Господњег, и странац и домородац; половина према гори Гаризину а половина према гори Евалу, као што беше заповедио Мојсије слуга Господњи да благослови народ Израиљев најпре.
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.
И потом прочита све речи закона, благослов и проклетство, све како је написано у књизи закона.
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.
Не би ни једне речи од свега што је Мојсије написао, које не прочита Исус пред свим збором Израиљевим, и женама и децом и странцима који иђаху међу њима.
