Joshua 8
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1The 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.
1耶和华对 约书亚 说：「不要惧怕，也不要惊惶。你起来，率领一切兵丁上 艾 城去，我已经把 艾 城的王和他的民、他的城，并他的地，都交在你手里。
2You 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.”
2你怎样待 耶利哥 和 耶利哥 的王，也当照样待 艾 城和 艾 城的王。只是城内所夺的财物和牲畜，你们可以取为自己的掠物。你要在城后设下伏兵。」
3So 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.
3于是， 约书亚 和一切兵丁都起来，要上 艾 城去。 约书亚 选了三万大能的勇士，夜间打发他们前往，
4He 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.
4吩咐他们说：「你们要在城后埋伏，不可离城太远，都要各自准备。
5I 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.
5我与我所带领的众民要向城前往。城里的人像初次出来攻击我们的时候，我们就在他们面前逃跑，
6They 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,
6他们必出来追赶我们，直到我们引诱他们离开城；因为他们必说：『这些人像初次在我们面前逃跑。』所以我们要在他们面前逃跑，
7and you shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city; for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.
7你们就从埋伏的地方起来，夺取那城，因为耶和华—你们的 神必把城交在你们手里。
8It 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.”
8你们夺了城以后，就放火烧城，要照耶和华的话行。这是我吩咐你们的。」
9Joshua 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.
9约书亚 打发他们前往，他们就上埋伏的地方去，住在 伯特利 和 艾 城的中间，就是在 艾 城的西边。这夜 约书亚 却在民中住宿。
10Joshua rose up early in the morning, mustered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.
10约书亚 清早起来，点齐百姓，他和 以色列 的长老在百姓前面上 艾 城去。
11All 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.
11众民，就是他所带领的兵丁，都上去，向前直往，来到城前，在 艾 城北边安营。在 约书亚 和 艾 城中间有一山谷。
12He took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.
12他挑了约有五千人，使他们埋伏在 伯特利 和 艾 城的中间，就是在 艾 城的西边，
13So 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.
13于是安置了百姓，就是城北的全军和城西的伏兵。这夜 约书亚 进入山谷之中。
14When 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.
14艾 城的王看见 这景况 ，就和全城的人，清早急忙起来，按所定的时候，出到 亚拉巴 前，要与 以色列 人交战；王却不知道在城后有伏兵。
15Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.
15约书亚 和 以色列 众人在他们面前装败，往那通旷野的路逃跑。
16All the people who were in the city were called together to pursue after them. They pursued Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.
16城内的众民都被招聚，追赶他们； 艾 城人追赶的时候，就被引诱离开城。
17There was not a man left in Ai or Bethel who didn’t go out after Israel. They left the city open, and pursued Israel.
17艾 城和 伯特利 城没有一人不出来追赶 以色列 人的，撇了敞开的城门，去追赶 以色列 人。
18The 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.
18耶和华吩咐 约书亚 说：「你向 艾 城伸出手里的短枪，因为我要将城交在你手里。」 约书亚 就向城伸出手里的短枪。
19The 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.
19他一伸手，伏兵就从埋伏的地方急忙起来，夺了城，跑进城去，放火焚烧。
20When 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.
20艾 城的人回头一看，不料，城中烟气冲天，他们就无力向左向右逃跑。那往旷野逃跑的百姓便转身攻击追赶他们的人。
21When 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.
21约书亚 和 以色列 众人见伏兵已经夺了城，城中烟气飞腾，就转身回去，击杀 艾 城的人。
22The 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.
22伏兵也出城迎击 艾 城人， 艾 城人就困在 以色列 人中间，前后都是 以色列 人。于是 以色列 人击杀他们，没有留下一个，也没有一个逃脱的，
23They captured the king of Ai alive, and brought him to Joshua.
23生擒了 艾 城的王，将他解到 约书亚 那里。
24When 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.
24以色列 人在田间和旷野杀尽所追赶一切 艾 城的居民。 艾 城人倒在刀下，直到灭尽； 以色列 众人就回到 艾 城，用刀杀了城中的人。
25All that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the people of Ai.
25当日杀毙的人，连男带女共有一万二千，就是 艾 城所有的人。
26For Joshua didn’t draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
26约书亚 没有收回手里所伸出来的短枪，直到把 艾 城的一切居民尽行杀灭。
27Israel took for themselves only the livestock and the goods of that city, according to the LORD’s word which he commanded Joshua.
27惟独城中的牲畜和财物， 以色列 人都取为自己的掠物，是照耶和华所吩咐 约书亚 的话。
28So Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day.
28约书亚 将 艾 城焚烧，使城永为高堆、荒场，直到今日；
29He 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.
29又将 艾 城王挂在树上，直到晚上。日落的时候， 约书亚 吩咐人把尸首从树上取下来，丢在城门口，在尸首上堆成一大堆石头，直存到今日。
30Then Joshua built an altar to the LORD, the God of Israel, on Mount Ebal,
30那时， 约书亚 在 以巴路山 上为耶和华— 以色列 的 神筑一座坛，
31as 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.
31是用没有动过铁器的整石头筑的，照着耶和华仆人 摩西 所吩咐 以色列 人的话，正如 摩西 律法书上所写的。众人在这坛上给耶和华奉献燔祭和平安祭。
32He wrote there on the stones a copy of Moses’ law, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.
32约书亚 在那里，当着 以色列 人面前，将 摩西 所写的律法抄写在石头上。
33All 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.
33以色列 众人，无论是本地人、是寄居的，和长老、官长，并审判官，都站在 约 柜两旁，在抬耶和华约柜的祭司 利未 人面前，一半对着 基利心山 ，一半对着 以巴路山 ，为 以色列 民祝福，正如耶和华仆人 摩西 先前所吩咐的。
34Afterward 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.
34随后， 约书亚 将律法上祝福、咒诅的话，照着律法书上一切所写的，都宣读了一遍。
35There 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 among them.
35摩西 所吩咐的一切话， 约书亚 在 以色列 全会众和妇女、孩子，并他们中间寄居的外人面前，没有一句不宣读的。
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