Josué 8

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 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 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 Yahweh 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. 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.

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.

Te Mau me te Whakahoronga o Hai

1 Nā, ka mea a Ihowā ki a Hohua, "Kaua e mataku, kaua e pāwera; tangohia ki a koe te hunga hāpai patu katoa, ā, whakatika, haere ki runga, ki Hai. Titiro hoki, kua hoatu e ahau ki tōu ringa te kīngi o Hai, tōna iwi, tōna pā, me tōna whenua. 2 Ā, kia rite tāu e mea ai ki Hai, ki tōna kīngi hoki, ki tāu i mea ai ki Heriko, ki tōna kīngi; ko ōna taonga ia, me ōna kararehe, me tango mā koutou; whakatakotoria he pehipehi mō te pā ki tērā pito."

3 Nā, ko te whakatikanga o Hohua me te hunga hāpai patu katoa ki te whakaeke i Hai. Ā, whiriwhiria ana e Hohua e toru tekau mano o ngā tāngata, he mārohirohi, ā, tonoa atu ana rātou e ia i te pō. 4 I whakahau anō ia i a rātou, i mea, "Kia mahara, me whakatakoto he pehipehi mō te pā ki tērā pito o te pā; kei matara rawa atu i te pā, engari kia tūmatohi koutou katoa. 5 Ā, māku, mā te hunga katoa hoki i ahau, e whakatata ki te pā; ā, ka puta mai rātou ki te tū i a mātou, ka pērā me tō mua, nā, ka rere mātou i tō rātou aroaro. 6 Nā, ka puta mai rātou ka whai i a mātou, ā, ka manukāwhakitia e mātou i roto i te pā; tērā hoki rātou e mea, ‘E rere ana rātou i ō tātou aroaro, pērā anō me tō mua.’ Ā, ka rere mātou i tō rātou aroaro; 7 hei reira koutou whakatika ai i te pehipehi, ā, ka tomo i te pā; mā Ihowā hoki, mā tō koutou Atua e tuku ki ō koutou ringa. 8 Nā, ka riro te pā i a koutou, tahuna te pā ki te ahi; pērātia me tā Ihowā i kī ai. Kia mahara, kua whakaritea atu nei e ahau ki a koutou."

9 Nā, tonoa ana rātou e Hohua; ā, haere ana rātou ki te whakatakoto pehipehi, ā, noho ana i waenganui o Pētēre, o Hai, ki te taha ki te hauāuru o Hai; ko Hohua ia i moe i waenganui o te iwi i taua pō.

10 Nā, ka maranga wawe a Hohua i te ata, ā, whakaemia ana e ia te iwi, nā, haere ana ia me ngā kaumātua o Īharaira i mua i te iwi ki Hai. 11 Ā, ko te iwi katoa tae noa ki te hunga hāpai patu i a ia, i haere, i whakatata, ā, ka tae ki mua o te pā, ā, noho rawa atu ki te taha ki te raki o Hai; nā, he whārua i waenganui o rātou, o Hai. 12 Nā, ka tango ia i ētahi tāngata tata tonu ki te rima mano, ā, whakanohoia ana e ia hei pehipehi ki waenganui o Pētēre, o Hai, ki te taha ki te hauāuru o te pā. 13 Ā, ka oti i a rātou te whakanoho te iwi, arā te ope katoa, tērā i te raki o te pā, me ā rātou pehipehi ki te hauāuru o te pā. Nā, ka haere a Hohua i taua pō anō ki waenganui o te whārua.

14 Ā, nō te kitenga o te kīngi o Hai, nā, hohoro ana rātou, maranga wawe ana; ko te tino putanga mai o ngā tāngata o te pā ki te tū i a Īharaira ki te riri, a ia me tōna iwi katoa i te wā i whakaritea, i te ritenga mai o te mānia; kīhai ia i mōhio he pehipehi tērā mōna kei tua o te pā. 15 Ā, whakawhati ana a Hohua rātou ko Īharaira katoa i a rātou anō i ō rātou aroaro, ā, rere ana i te huarahi ki te koraha. 16 Kātahi ka karangatia te iwi katoa i roto i Hai ki te whai i a rātou; nā, whai ana rātou i muri i a Hohua, ā, manukāwhakitia ana rātou i roto i te pā. 17 Ā, kāhore he tangata o Hai rāua ko Pētēre i noho, i tē haere ki te whai i a Īharaira; nā, whakarērea ana e rātou te pā kia takoto kau ana, ā, whai ana i muri i a Īharaira.

18 Nā, ka mea a Ihowā ki a Hohua, "Whakatoroa atu te tīmata i tōu ringa nā, ki Hai; nō te mea ka hoatu e ahau a reira ki tōu ringa." Nā, whakatoroa atu ana e Hohua te tīmata i tōna ringa ki te pā. 19 Nā, hohoro tonu te rewa o te pehipehi i tō rātou wāhi, ā, rere ana i te toronga atu anō o tōna ringa; ā, tomokia ana e rātou te pā ā horo noa, nā, hohoro tonu tā rātou tahu i te pā ki te ahi.

20 Ā, nō te tahuritanga o ngā tāngata o Hai, ka titiro, nā, ko te paowa o te pā e kake ana ki te rangi, nā, kāhore ō rātou kaha ki te rere pēnei rānei, pērā rānei. Nā, ka tahuri te hunga i rere whaka te koraha ki ngā mea i whai rā. 21 Ā, nō te kitenga o Hohua rātou ko Īharaira katoa kua horo te pā i te pehipehi, ā, ko te paowa o te pā e kake ana ki runga, nā, ka tahuri rātou, ka patu i ngā tāngata o Hai. 22 Ā, ka puta mai ērā i roto i te pā ki te whakatūtaki i a rātou; nā, ka noho rātou ki waenganui o Īharaira, ko ētahi ki tēnei taha, ko ētahi ki tērā taha; nā, tukitukia iho rātou e rātou, ā, kore rawa i toe tētahi mōrehu, tētahi rānei i rere atu. 23 Ā, hopukia oratia ana e rātou te kīngi o Hai, ā, kawea ana ki a Hohua.

24 Ā, nō ka poto i a Īharaira te patu ngā tāngata katoa o Hai i te pārae, i te koraha i whāia nei rātou ki reira, ā, ka hinga katoa rātou i te mata o te hoari ā poto noa rātou, kātahi ka hoki katoa a Īharaira ki Hai, ka tukituki hoki i reira ki te mata o te hoari. 25 Ā, ko ngā tāngata katoa i hinga i taua rā, ngā tāne me ngā wāhine, kotahi tekau mā rua mano, ko ngā tāngata katoa hoki o Hai. 26 Kāhore hoki a Hohua i whakahoki mai i tōna ringa, i torona atu ai e ia me te tīmata, ā, ngaro noa i a ia ngā tāngata katoa o Hai. 27 Ko ngā kararehe anake me ngā taonga o taua pā i tangohia e Īharaira mā rātou, i pērā anō me te kupu a Ihowā i tohutohu ai ki a Hohua.

28 Ā, tahuna ana e Hohua a Hai, meinga iho hei pūranga mō ā mua tonu atu, hei ururua ā tae noa mai ki tēnei rā. 29 Ā, ko te kīngi o Hai i tāronatia e Hohua ā ahiahi noa; ā, ka tō te rā, ka whakahaua e Hohua kia tangohia iho tōna tinana i runga i te rākau, kia makā ki te kūwaha o te tomokanga ki te pā. Kia whakapūrangatia he kōhatu ki runga i a ia, he pūranga nui e tū nei ā taea noatia tēnei rā.

Ka Pānuitia te Ture kei Maunga Ēpara

30 Nā, hangā ana e Hohua tētahi āta mā Ihowā, mā te Atua o Īharaira, ki Maunga Ēpara, 31 pērā me tā Mohi, me tā te pononga a Ihowā i whakahau ai ki ngā tama a Īharaira, he mea e rite ana ki tērā i tuhituhia ki roto i te Pukapuka o te Ture a Mohi, he āta kāmaka toitū, kīhai nei i ākina iho te rino ki runga; ā, whakaekea ana e rātou he tahunga tinana mā Ihowā, i patua hoki he whakahere mō te pai. 32 Ā, tuhituhia ana e ia i reira ki ngā kōhatu ngā kupu o te ture a Mohi, he mea tuhituhi i te aroaro o ngā tama a Īharaira. 33 Ā, ko Īharaira katoa, ko ōna kaumātua, ko ngā rangatira, ko ōna kaiwhakawā, i tū ki tētahi taha o te āka, ki tētahi taha, ki mua o ngā tohunga, o ngā Rīwaiti, o ngā kaiamo i te āka o te kawenata a Ihowā rātou tahi ko te manene, ko te tangata tupu; ko tētahi tānga o rātou i te ritenga atu o Maunga Keritimi, ā, ko tētahi tānga o rātou i te ritenga atu o Maunga Ēpara; i rite tonu ki tā Mohi, ki tā te pononga a Ihowā i whakahau ai i mua, hei manaaki i te iwi o Īharaira.

34 Ā muri iho ka kōrerotia e ia ngā kupu katoa o te ture, ngā manaaki me ngā kanga, rite tonu ki ngā mea katoa i tuhituhia ki te Pukapuka o te Ture. 35 Kāhore he kupu o ngā mea katoa i whakahaua e Mohi i kore te kōrerotia e Hohua ki te aroaro o te huihui katoa o Īharaira, o ngā wāhine hoki me ngā tamariki, me ngā manene i noho tahi nei me rātou.