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| Ai dibinasakan 8:1 Kemudian berfirmanlah TUHAN kepada Yosua: "Janganlah takut dan janganlah tawar hati; bawalah seluruh tentara dan bersiaplah, majulah ke Ai. Ketahuilah, Aku serahkan kepadamu raja negeri Ai, rakyatnya, kotanya dan negerinya, 8:2 dan haruslah kaulakukan kepada Ai dan rajanya, seperti yang kaulakukan kepada Yerikho dan rajanya; hanya barang-barangnya dan ternaknya boleh kamu jarah. Suruhlah orang bersembunyi di belakang kota itu." 8:3 Lalu bersiaplah Yosua beserta seluruh tentara untuk pergi ke Ai. Yosua memilih tiga puluh ribu orang, pahlawan-pahlawan yang gagah perkasa, mereka disuruhnya pergi pada waktu malam 8:4 dan kepada mereka diperintahkannya, katanya: "Ketahuilah, kamu harus bersembunyi di belakang kota itu untuk menyerangnya, janganlah terlalu jauh dari kota itu, dan bersiap-siaplah kamu sekalian. 8:5 Aku dan semua orang yang bersama-sama dengan aku akan mendekati kota itu; apabila mereka keluar menyerbu kami, seperti yang pertama kali, maka kami akan melarikan diri dari hadapan mereka. 8:6 Jadi mereka akan keluar menyusul kami, sehingga kami memancing mereka jauh dari kota itu, sebab mereka akan berkata: orang-orang itu melarikan diri dari hadapan kita seperti yang pertama kali. Jika kami melarikan diri dari hadapan mereka, 8:7 maka kamu harus bangun dari tempat persembunyianmu itu untuk menduduki kota itu, dan TUHAN, Allahmu, akan menyerahkannya ke dalam tanganmu. 8:8 Segera setelah kamu merebut kota itu, haruslah kamu membakarnya; sesuai dengan firman TUHAN kamu harus melakukan semuanya itu; ingatlah, itulah perintahku kepadamu." 8:9 Demikianlah Yosua menyuruh mereka pergi, lalu berjalanlah mereka ke tempat persembunyian dan tinggal di antara Betel dan Ai, di sebelah barat Ai. Tetapi Yosua bermalam di tengah-tengah rakyat pada malam itu. 8:10 Keesokan harinya Yosua bangun pagi-pagi, lalu diperiksanyalah barisan bangsa itu dan berjalanlah ia maju beserta para tua-tua orang Israel di depan bangsa itu ke Ai. 8:11 Juga seluruh tentara yang bersama-sama dengan dia berjalan maju; mereka maju mendekat, lalu sampai ke tentangan kota itu, kemudian berkemahlah mereka di sebelah utara Ai, sehingga lembah itu ada di antara mereka dan Ai. 8:12 Yosua telah mengambil kira-kira lima ribu orang, lalu disuruhnya mereka bersembunyi di antara Betel dan Ai, di sebelah barat kota itu. 8:13 Beginilah rakyat itu diatur: seluruh tentara itu di sebelah utara kota dengan barisan belakang di sebelah barat kota. Pada malam itu berjalanlah Yosua melalui lembah itu. 8:14 Pagi-pagi, ketika raja negeri Ai melihat hal itu, maka ia dan seluruh rakyatnya, orang-orang kota itu, segera keluar berperang, menyerbu orang Israel, ke lereng di seberang dataran itu; raja itu tidak tahu, bahwa ada orang bersembunyi di belakang kota. 8:15 Yosua dan seluruh orang Israel itu berlaku seolah-olah dipukul mundur oleh mereka, lalu melarikan diri ke arah padang gurun. 8:16 Sebab itu semua orang yang ada di kota dikerahkan untuk mengejar orang Israel. Maka mereka mengejar Yosua, sehingga makin jauhlah mereka terpancing dari kota. 8:17 Seorangpun tidak tertinggal lagi di Ai dan Betel yang tidak keluar memburu orang Israel. Mereka meninggalkan kota itu terbuka, karena mereka mengejar orang Israel. 8:18 Lalu berfirmanlah TUHAN kepada Yosua: "Acungkanlah lembing yang ada di tanganmu ke arah Ai, sebab Aku menyerahkan kota itu ke dalam tanganmu." Maka Yosua mengacungkan lembing yang di tangannya ke arah kota itu. 8:19 Ketika diacungkannya tangannya, maka segeralah bangun orang-orang yang bersembunyi itu dari tempatnya, mereka berlari memasuki kota, merebutnya, lalu segera membakar kota itu. 8:20 Ketika orang Ai berpaling menoleh ke belakang, tampaklah asap kota itu naik membubung ke langit; mereka tidak sempat melarikan diri ke manapun juga, sebab rakyat yang tadinya lari ke padang gurun, berbalik melawan pengejar-pengejarnya. 8:21 Ketika Yosua dan seluruh Israel melihat, bahwa orang-orang yang bersembunyi itu telah merebut kota dan bahwa asap kota itu naik membubung, berbaliklah mereka, lalu menewaskan orang-orang Ai. 8:22 Sementara itu juga keluar orang-orang Israel yang lain dari dalam kota menyerbu orang-orang Ai, sehingga terjepit di tengah-tengah orang Israel itu, yang ini dari sini dan yang itu dari sana; orang-orang Ai ditewaskan, sehingga seorangpun dari mereka tidak ada yang dibiarkan terlepas atau luput. 8:23 Tetapi raja Ai ditangkap mereka hidup-hidup dan dihadapkan kepada Yosua. 8:24 Segera sesudah orang Israel selesai membunuh seluruh penduduk kota Ai di padang terbuka ke mana orang Israel mengejar mereka, dan orang-orang ini semuanya tewas oleh mata pedang sampai orang yang penghabisan, maka seluruh Israel kembali ke Ai dan memukul kota itu dengan mata pedang. 8:25 Jumlah semua orang yang tewas pada hari itu, baik laki-laki maupun perempuan, ada dua belas ribu orang, semuanya orang Ai. 8:26 Dan Yosua tidak menarik tangannya yang mengacungkan lembing itu, sebelum seluruh penduduk kota Ai ditumpasnya. 8:27 Hanya ternak dan barang-barang kota itu dijarah oleh orang Israel, sesuai dengan firman TUHAN, yang diperintahkan-Nya kepada Yosua. 8:28 Yosua membakar Ai dan membuatnya menjadi timbunan puing untuk selama-lamanya, menjadi tempat yang tandus sampai sekarang. 8:29 Dan raja Ai digantungnya pada sebuah tiang sampai petang. Ketika matahari terbenam, Yosua memerintahkan orang menurunkan mayat itu dari tiang, lalu dilemparkan di depan pintu gerbang kota, kemudian didirikan oranglah di atasnya suatu timbunan batu yang besar, yang masih ada sampai sekarang. Mezbah di gunung Ebal; pembacaan hukum Taurat 8:30 Pada waktu itulah Yosua mendirikan mezbah di gunung Ebal bagi TUHAN, Allah Israel, 8:31 seperti yang diperintahkan Musa, hamba TUHAN, kepada orang Israel, menurut apa yang tertulis dalam kitab hukum Musa: suatu mezbah dari batu-batu yang tidak dipahat, yang tidak diolah dengan perkakas besi apapun. Di atasnyalah mereka mempersembahkan korban bakaran kepada TUHAN dan mengorbankan korban keselamatan. 8:32 Dan di sanalah di atas batu-batu itu, dituliskan Yosua salinan hukum Musa, yang dituliskannya di depan orang Israel. 8:33 Seluruh orang Israel, para tua-tuanya, para pengatur pasukannya dan para hakimnya berdiri sebelah-menyebelah tabut, berhadapan dengan para imam yang memang suku Lewi, para pengangkat tabut perjanjian TUHAN itu, baik pendatang maupun anak negeri, setengahnya menghadap ke gunung Gerizim dan setengahnya lagi menghadap ke gunung Ebal, seperti yang dahulu diperintahkan oleh Musa, hamba TUHAN, apabila orang memberkati bangsa Israel. 8:34 Sesudah itu dibacakannyalah segala perkataan hukum Taurat, berkatnya dan kutuknya, sesuai dengan segala apa yang tertulis dalam kitab hukum. 8:35 Tidak ada sepatah katapun dari segala apa yang diperintahkan Musa yang tidak dibacakan oleh Yosua kepada seluruh jemaah Israel dan kepada perempuan-perempuan dan anak-anak dan kepada pendatang yang ikut serta. | 8:1 Now the LORD said to Joshua: "Do not be afraid, nor be 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, his people, his city, and his land. 8:2 "And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king. Only its spoil and its cattle you shall take as booty for yourselves. Lay an ambush for the city behind it." 8:3 So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai; and Joshua chose thirty thousand mighty men of valor and sent them away by night. 8:4 And he commanded them, saying: "Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city. Do not go very far from the city, but all of you be ready. 8:5 "Then I and all the people who [are] with me will approach the city; and it will come about, when they come out against us as at the first, that we shall flee before them. 8:6 "For they will come out after us till we have drawn them from the city, for they will say, `[They are] fleeing before us as at the first.' Therefore we will flee before them. 8:7 "Then you shall rise from the ambush and seize the city, for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand. 8:8 "And it will be, when you have taken the city, [that] you shall set the city on fire. According to the commandment of the LORD you shall do. See, I have commanded you." 8:9 Joshua therefore sent them out; and they went to lie in ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai; but Joshua lodged that night among the people. 8:10 Then Joshua rose up early in the morning and mustered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai. 8:11 And all the people of war who [were] with him went up and drew near; and they came before the city and camped on the north side of Ai. Now a valley [lay] between them and Ai. 8:12 So he took about five thousand men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city. 8:13 And when they had set the people, all the army that [was] on the north of the city, and its rear guard on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley. 8:14 Now it happened, when the king of Ai saw [it], that the men of the city hurried and rose early and went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at an appointed place before the plain. But he did not know that [there was] an ambush against him behind the city. 8:15 And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness. 8:16 So all the people who [were] in Ai were called together to pursue them. And they pursued Joshua and were drawn away from the city. 8:17 There was not a man left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel. So they left the city open and pursued Israel. 8:18 Then the LORD said to 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 [was] in his hand toward the city. 8:19 So [those in] ambush arose quickly out of their place; they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand, and they entered the city and took it, and hurried to set the city on fire. 8:20 And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and behold, the smoke of the city ascended to heaven. So they had no power to flee this way or that way, and the people who had fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers. 8:21 Now when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city and that the smoke of the city ascended, they turned back and struck down the men of Ai. 8:22 Then the others came out of the city against them; so they were [caught] in the midst of Israel, some on this side and some on that side. And they struck them down, so that they let none of them remain or escape. 8:23 But the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua. 8:24 And it came to pass when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness where they pursued them, and when they all had fallen by the edge of the sword until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned to Ai and struck it with the edge of the sword. 8:25 So it was [that] all who fell that day, both men and women, [were] twelve thousandall the people of Ai. 8:26 For Joshua did not draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai. 8:27 Only the livestock and the spoil of that city Israel took as booty for themselves, according to the word of the LORD which He had commanded Joshua. 8:28 So Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap forever, a desolation to this day. 8:29 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 corpse down from the tree, cast it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raise over it a great heap of stones [that remains] to this day. 8:30 Now Joshua built an altar to the LORD God of Israel in Mount Ebal, 8:31 as Moses the servant of the LORD had 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 wielded an iron [tool]." And they offered on it burnt offerings to the LORD, and sacrificed peace offerings. 8:32 And there, in the presence of the children of Israel, he wrote on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he had written. 8:33 Then all Israel, with their elders and officers and judges, stood on either side of the ark before the priests, the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, the stranger as well as he who was born among them. Half of them [were] in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel. 8:34 And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and the cursings, according to all that is written in the Book of the Law. 8:35 There was not a word of all that Moses had commanded which Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel, with the women, the little ones, and the strangers who were living among them. |
| KeyWords: Ai dibinasakan, Mezbah di gunung Ebal; pembacaan hukum Taurat |