I.IV. COV HIS XAS LAIS TXEEB TAULUB TSHEEJ AIS
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1 Yahweh 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. 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.”
3 Yos Xuas npaj yuav coj cov tub rog tas huv tib si mus ntaus lub tsheej Ais. Nws xaiv peb caug txhiab leej yog cov txawj tshaj, nws kom lawv mus hmo ntuj. 4 Nws xub ceeb toom rau lawv tias : “Nej yuav muab siab rau ! Nej yuav mus nkaum nyob nram qab tsheej tos. Nej siv tom txwv ntaus lub nroog. Nej tsis txhob mus nyob deb heev. Nej mloog ntsoov mus li. 5 Kuv yuav nrog sawv daws txav mus kom txog lub tsheej. Ces thaum cov neeg nyob hauv Ais tawm tuaj ntaus peb mas peb yuav khiav.”
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. 4 He 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. 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. 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, 7 and you shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city; for Yahweh your God will deliver it into your hand. 8 It shall be, when you have seized the city, that you shall set the city on fire. You shall do this according to Yahweh’s word. Behold, I have commanded you.”
9 Ces Yos Xuas tso lawv mus. Lawv thiaj mus nrhiav chaw nkaum nyob ntawm Ais xib fab, nyob hauv Ais thiab Npes Thes kis nruab nrab. Yos Xuas nrog tsoom sid pw ib hmos. 10 Tag kis nws sawv ntxov ntxov. Nws mus txheeb tsoom sid tib si, ces nws coj lawv nce mus pem Ais, nws nrog cov txwj laus His Xas Lais ua ntej. 14 Thaum tus vaj Ais pom tias cov His Xas Lais vij nws lub tsheej lawm, mas tus vaj tawm ceev ceev tuaj nrog lawv sib tua. Nws coj nws cov tub rog tuaj nyob ntawm phab toj ntsia ntsoov mus rau lub tiaj As Las Npas, nws tsis paub tias muaj ib pab His Xas Lais nkaum nyob nram qab tsheej. 15 Yos Xuas thiab tsoom His Xas Lais cia tus vaj tuaj ntaus lawv. Lawv khiav taug txoj kev mus rau teb chaws suab puam. 16 Tas tsoom neeg nyob hauv lub tsheej tawm tuaj caum cov His Xas Lais, lawv qw ntsuag qees. Lawv caum Yos Xuas mus deb lub tsheej. 17 Tsis tshuav ib tug txiv neej nyob hauv Ais uas yuav tsis tuaj caum cov His Xas Lais. Lawv tuaj tas tib si thiab lawv cia lub rooj loog tsheej qhib tseg.
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. 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. 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. 12 He took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city. 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. 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 didn’t know that there was an ambush against him behind the city. 15 Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness. 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. 17 There was not a man left in Ai or Bethel who didn’t go out after Israel. They left the city open, and pursued Israel.
18 Ces HUAB TAIS hais rau Yos Xuas tias : “Koj tsa rab hmuv nyob hauv koj txhais tes mus rau Ais, vim kuv yuav tso lub tsheej rau hauv koj tes.”
18 Yahweh said to Joshua, “Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand.”
Yos Xuas tsa hlo rab hmuv nws tuav mus rau lub nroog. 19 Thaum nws xyab tes kiag, cov tub rog nkaum nram qab tsheej tawm plaws los, lawv khiav mus hauv lub tsheej thiab lawv zes taws tam sid rau lub tsheej. 20 Cov neeg Ais tig loo los saib, lawv pom pa taws twb ncho nto ntuj. Lawv tsis muaj ib tug yuav muaj lub zog khiav mus lawm ib qho li. Hos cov His Xas Lais uas lawv caum mus teb chaws suab puam tig loo rov los ntaus lawv. 21 Yos Xuas pom tias cov tub rog lawv xub mus nkaum lawv txeeb tau lub tsheej lawm, thiab nws pom pa taws ncho nto ntuj plaws, mas nws coj cov His Xas Lais tig loo rov los ntaus cov Ais. 22 Cov mus hlawv lub tsheej kuj tawm tuaj pab Yos Xuas lawv thiab. Ces cov Ais nyob hauv ob pab His Xas Lais kis nruab nrab. Cov His Xas Lais muab lawv tua tuag tas, tsis tshuav ib tug ciaj los ib tug dim khiav li.
Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city. 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. 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. 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. 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. 23 They captured the king of Ai alive, and brought him to Joshua.
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. 25 All that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the people of Ai. 26 For Joshua didn’t draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai. 27 Israel took for themselves only the livestock and the goods of that city, according to Yahweh’s word which he commanded Joshua. 28 So Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day. 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.
I.V. COV HIS XAS LAIS TXI NTUJ SAUM LUB ROOB ES NPAS
30 Then Joshua built an altar to Yahweh, the God of Israel, on Mount Ebal, 31 as Moses the servant of Yahweh 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 Yahweh and sacrificed peace offerings. 32 He wrote there on the stones a copy of Moses’ law, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel. 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 Yahweh’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 Yahweh had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel. 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. 35 There 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.