Josué 8
1 Então disse o Senhor a Josué: Não temas, e não te espantes: toma comtigo toda a gente de guerra, e levanta-te, sobe a Hai: olha que te tenho dado na tua mão o rei d'Hai, e o seu povo, e a sua cidade, e a sua terra.
And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be you dismayed: take all the people of war with you, and arise, go up to Ai: see, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land:
2 Farás pois a Hai, e a seu rei, como fizeste a Jericó, e a seu rei: salvo que para vós saqueareis os seus despojos, e o seu gado: põe-te emboscadas á cidade, por detraz d'ella.
And you shall do to Ai and her king as you did unto Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall all of you take for a prey unto yourselves: lay you an ambush for the city behind it.
3 Então Josué levantou-se, e toda a gente de guerra, para subir contra Hai: e escolheu Josué trinta mil homens valentes e valorosos, e enviou-os de noite.
So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valour, and sent them away by night.
4 E deu-lhes ordem, dizendo: Olhae, poreis emboscadas á cidade, por detraz da cidade; não vos alongueis muito da cidade: e todos vós estareis apercebidos.
And he commanded them, saying, Behold, all of you shall lie in wait against the city, even behind the city: go not very far from the city, but be all of you all ready:
5 Porém eu e todo o povo que está comigo nos achegaremos á cidade: e será que, quando nos sairem ao encontro, como d'antes, fugiremos diante d'elles.
And I, and all the people that are with me, will approach unto the city: and it shall come to pass, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them,
6 Deixae-os pois sair atraz de nós, até que os tiremos da cidade; porque dirão: Fogem diante de nós como d'antes. Assim fugiremos diante d'elles.
(For they will come out after us) till we have drawn them from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: therefore we will flee before them.
7 Então saireis vós da emboscada, e tomareis a cidade: porque o Senhor vosso Deus vol-a dará na vossa mão.
Then all of you shall rise up from the ambush, and seize upon the city: for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.
8 E será que, tomando vós a cidade, poreis a cidade a fogo; conforme á palavra do Senhor fareis; olhae que vol-o tenho mandado.
And it shall be, when all of you have taken the city, that all of you shall set the city on fire: according to the commandment of the LORD shall all of you do. See, I have commanded you.
9 Assim Josué os enviou, e elles se foram á emboscada; e ficaram entre Bethel e Hai, ao occidente d'Hai: porém Josué passou aquella noite no meio do povo.
Joshua therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie in ambush, and abode between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people.
10 E levantou-se Josué de madrugada, e contou o povo: e subiram elle e os anciãos de Israel diante do povo contra Hai.
And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and numbered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.
11 Subiu tambem toda a gente de guerra, que estava com elle, e chegaram-se, e vieram fronteiros á cidade: e alojaram-se da banda do norte d'Hai; e havia um valle entre elle e Hai.
And all the people, even the people of war that were with him, went up, and drew nigh, and came before the city, and pitched on the north side of Ai: now there was a valley between them and Ai.
12 Tomou tambem alguns cinco mil homens, e pôl-os entre Bethel e Hai em emboscada, ao occidente da cidade.
And he took about five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.
13 E pozeram o povo, todo o arraial que estava ao norte da cidade, e a sua emboscada ao occidente da cidade: e foi Josué aquella noite ao meio do valle.
And when they had set the people, even all the host that was on the north of the city, and their hidden attackers in wait on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.
14 E succedeu que, vendo-o o rei d'Hai, se apressaram, e se levantaram de madrugada, e os homens da cidade sairam ao encontro d'Israel ao combate, elle e todo o seu povo, ao tempo assignalado, perante as campinas: porque elle não sabia, que se lhe houvesse posto emboscada detraz da cidade.
And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain; but he knows not that there were hidden attackers in ambush against him behind the city.
15 Josué pois e todo o Israel se houveram como feridos diante d'elles, e fugiram pelo caminho do deserto.
And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.
16 Pelo que todo o povo, que estava na cidade, foi convocado para os seguir: e seguiram a Josué e foram attrahidos da cidade.
And all the people that were in Ai were called together to pursue after them: and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.
17 E nem um só homem ficou em Hai, nem em Bethel, que não saisse após Israel: e deixaram a cidade aberta, e seguiram a Israel.
And there was not a man left in Ai or Bethel, that went not out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.
18 Então o Senhor disse a Josué: Estende a lança que tens na tua mão, para Hai; porque a darei na tua mão. E Josué estendeu a lança, que estava na sua mão, para a cidade.
And the LORD said unto Joshua, Stretch out the spear that is in your hand toward Ai; for I will give it into your hand. And Joshua stretched out the spear that he had in his hand toward the city.
19 Então a emboscada se levantou do seu logar apressadamente, e correram, estendendo elle a sua mão, e vieram á cidade, e a tomaram: e apressaram-se, e pozeram a cidade a fogo.
And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand: and they entered into the city, and took it, and hasted and set the city on fire.
20 E virando-se os homens de Hai para traz, olharam, e eis-que o fumo da cidade subia ao céu, e não tiveram logar para fugirem para uma parte nem outra: porque o povo, que fugia para o deserto, se tornou contra os que os seguiam.
And 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: and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.
21 E vendo Josué e todo o Israel que a emboscada tomara a cidade, e que o fumo da cidade subia, tornaram, e feriram os homens d'Hai.
And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and slew the men of Ai.
22 Tambem aquelles da cidade lhes sairam ao encontro, e assim cairam no meio dos israelitas, uns de uma, e outros de outra parte: e feriram-n'os, até que nenhum d'elles ficou, o que escapasse.
And the other issued out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side: and they stroke them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.
23 Porém ao rei d'Hai tomaram vivo, e o trouxeram a Josué.
And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.
24 E succedeu que, acabando os israelitas de matar todos os moradores d'Hai no campo, no deserto onde os tinham seguido, e havendo todos caido ao fio da espada, até todos serem consumidos, todo o Israel se tornou a Hai, e a pozeram a fio de espada.
And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and stroke it with the edge of the sword.
25 E todos os que cairam aquelle dia, assim homens como mulheres, foram doze mil: todos moradores d'Hai.
And so it was, that all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.
26 Porque Josué não retirou a sua mão, que estendera com a lança, até destruir totalmente a todos os moradores d'Hai.
For Joshua drew not his hand back, wherewith he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
27 Tão sómente os israelitas saquearam para si o gado e os despojos da cidade, conforme á palavra do Senhor, que tinha ordenado a Josué.
Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for a prey unto themselves, according unto the word of the LORD which he commanded Joshua.
28 Queimou pois Josué a Hai: e a tornou n'um montão perpetuo, em assolamento, até ao dia d'hoje.
And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation unto this day.
29 E ao rei d'Hai enforcou n'um madeiro, até á tarde: e ao pôr do sol ordenou Josué, que o seu corpo se tirasse do madeiro; e o lançaram á porta da cidade, e levantaram sobre elle um grande montão de pedras, até ao dia d'hoje.
And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until evening: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcass down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remains unto this day.
30 Então Josué edificou um altar ao Senhor Deus d'Israel, no monte d'Ebal,
Then Joshua built an altar unto the LORD God of Israel in mount Ebal,
31 Como Moysés, servo do Senhor, ordenou aos filhos d'Israel, conforme ao que está escripto no livro da lei de Moysés, a saber: um altar de pedras inteiras, sobre o qual se não movera ferro: e offereceram sobre elle holocaustos ao Senhor, e sacrificaram sacrificios pacificos.
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 whole stones, over which no man has lift up any iron: and they offered thereon burnt offerings unto the LORD, and sacrificed peace offerings.
32 Tambem escreveu ali em pedras uma copia da lei de Moysés, que já tinha escripto diante dos filhos d'Israel.
And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.
33 E todo o Israel, com os seus anciãos, e os seus principes, e os seus juizes, estavam d'uma e outra banda da arca, perante os sacerdotes levitas, que levavam a arca do concerto do Senhor, assim estrangeiros como naturaes; metade d'elles em frente do monte Gerizim, e a outra metade em frente do monte Ebal; como Moysés, servo do Senhor, ordenara, para abençoar primeiramente o povo de Israel.
And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, as well the stranger, as he that was born among them; half of them opposite to mount Gerizim, and half of them opposite to mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel.
34 E depois leu em alta voz todas as palavras da lei, a benção e a maldição, conforme a tudo o que está escripto no livro da lei.
And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the book of the law.
35 Palavra nenhuma houve, de tudo o que Moysés ordenara, que Josué não lesse perante toda a congregação d'Israel, e das mulheres, e dos meninos, e dos estrangeiros, que andavam no meio d'elles.
There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua read not before all the congregation of Israel, with the women, and the little ones, and the strangers that were conversant among them.
