Joshua

攻取艾城

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。

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。」

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，

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。

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，

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，

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。

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。」

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。

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。

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。

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，

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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，

23生擒了艾城的王，将他解到约书亚那里。

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。

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。

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。

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。

28约书亚将艾城焚烧，使城永为高堆、荒场，直到今日；

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。

在以巴路山上宣读律法

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，

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

1And the Lord said to Josue: Fear not, nor be thou dismayed: take with thee all the multitude of fighting men, arise and go up to the town of Hai. Behold I have delivered into thy hand the king thereof, and the people, and the city, and the land.

2And thou shalt do to the city of Hai, and to the king thereof, as thou hast done to Jericho, and to the king thereof: but the spoils and all the cattle you shall take for a prey to yourselves: lay an ambush for the city behind it.

3And Josue arose, and all the army of the fighting men with him, to go up against Hai: and he sent thirty thousand chosen valiant men in the night,

4And commanded them, saying: Lay an ambush behind the city: and go not very far from it: and be ye all ready.

5But I and the rest of the multitude which is with me; will approach on the contrary side against the city. And when they shall come out against us, we will flee, and turn our backs, as we did before:

6Till they pursuing us be drawn farther from the city: for they will think that we flee as before.

7And whilst we are fleeing, and they pursuing, you shall arise out of the ambush, and shall destroy the city: and the Lord your God will deliver it into our hands.

8And when you shall have taken it, set it on fire, and you shall do all things so as I have commanded.

9And he sent them away, and they went on to the place of the ambush, and abode between Bethel and Hai, on the west side of the city of Hai. But Josue stayed that night in the midst of the people,

10And rising early in the morning, he mustered his soldiers, and went up with the ancients in the front of the army environed with the aid of the fighting men.

11And when they were come, and were gone up over against the city, they stood on the north side of the city, between which and them there was a valley in the midst.

12And he had chosen five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush between Bethel and Hai, on the west side of the same city:

13But all the rest of the army went in battle array on the north side, so that the last of that multitude reached to the west side of the city. So Josue went that night, and stood in the midst of the valley.

14And when the king of Hai saw this, he made haste in the morning, and went out with all the army of the city, and set it in battle array toward the desert, not knowing that there lay an ambush behind his back.

15But Josue, and all Israel gave back, making as if they were afraid, and fleeing by the way of the wilderness.

16But they shouting together, and encouraging one another, pursued them. And when they were come from the city,

17And not one remained in the city of Hai and of Bethel, that did not pursue after Israel, leaving the towns open as they had rushed out,

18The Lord said to Josue: Lift up the shield that is in thy hand, towards the city of Hai, for I will deliver it to thee.

19And when he had lifted up his shield towards the city, the ambush that lay hid, rose up immediately: and going to the city, took it and set it on fire.

20And the men of the city, that pursued after Josue, looking back and seeing the smoke of the city rise up to heaven, had no more power to flee this way or that way: especially as they that had counterfeited flight, and were going toward the wilderness, turned back most valiantly against them that pursued.

21So Josue and all Israel seeing that the city was taken, and that the smoke of the city rose up, returned and slew the men of Hai.

22And they also that had taken and set the city on fire, issuing out of the city to meet their own men, began to cut off the enemies who were surrounded by them. So that the enemies being cut off on both sides, not one of so great a multitude was saved.

23And they took the king of the city of Hai alive, and brought him to Josue.

24So all being slain that had pursued after Israel in his flight to the wilderness, and tailing by the sword in the same place, the children of Israel returned and laid waste the city.

25And the number of them that fell that day, both of men and women, was twelve thousand persons all of the city of Hai.

26But Josue drew not back his hand, which he had stretched out on high, holding the shield, till all the inhabitants of Hai were slain.

27And the children of Israel divided among them the cattle and the prey of the city, as the Lord had commanded Josue.

28And he burned the city, and made it a heap for ever:

29And he hung the king thereof on a gibbet until the evening and the going down of the sun. Then Josue commanded, and they took down his carcass from the gibbet: and threw it in the very entrance of the city, heaping upon it a great heap of stones, which remaineth until this present day.

30Then Josue built an altar to the Lord the God of Israel in mount Hebal,

31As Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded the children of Israel, and it is written in the book of the law of Moses: an altar of unhewn stones which iron had not touched: and he offered upon it holocausts to the Lord, and immolated victims of peace offerings.

32And he wrote upon stones the Deuteronomy of the law of Moses, which he had ordered before the children of Israel.

33And all the people, and the ancients, and the princes and judges stood on both sides of the ark, before the priests that carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, both the stranger and he that was born among them, half of them by mount Garizim, and half by mount Hebal, as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded. And first he blessed the people of Israel.

34After this he read all the words of the blessing and the cursing and all things that were written in the hook of the law.

35He left out nothing of those things which Moses had commanded, but he repeated all before all the people of Israel, with the women and children and strangers that dwelt among them.