Ai Captured by a Stratagem and Destroyed And the Lord said to Joshua, “Do not fear or be dismayed; take all the fighting men with you, and arise, go up to Ai; see, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, and his people, his city, and his land;
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
And the Lord said to Joshua, Fear not, nor be timorous: take with thee all the men of war, and arise, go up to Gai; behold, I have given into thy hands the king of Gai, and his land.
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 against the city, behind it.”
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
And thou shalt do to Gai, as thou didst to Jericho and its king; and thou shalt take to thyself the spoil of its cattle; set now for thyself an ambush for the city behind.
And he commanded them, “Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind it; do not go very far from the city, but hold yourselves all in readiness;
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
And he charged them, saying, Do ye lie in ambush behind the city: do not go far from the city, and ye shall all be ready.
and I, and all the people who are with me, will approach the city. And when they come out against us, as before, we shall flee before them;
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
Land I and all with me will draw near to the city: and it shall come to pass when the inhabitants of Gai shall come forth to meet us, as before, that we will flee from before them.
and they will come out after us, till we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, ‘They are fleeing from us, as before.’ So we will flee from them;
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
And when they shall come out after us, we will draw them away from the city; and they will say, These men flee from before us, as also before.
So Joshua sent them forth; and they went to the place of ambush, and lay between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai; but Joshua spent that night among the people.
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
And Joshua sent them, and they went to lie in ambush; and they lay between Baethel and Gai, westward of Gai.
And all the fighting men who were with him went up, and drew near before the city, and encamped on the north side of Ai, with a ravine between them and Ai.
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
And all the men of war went up with him, and they went forward and came over against the city eastward.
So they stationed the forces, the main encampment which was north of the city and its rear guard west of the city. But Joshua spent that night in the valley.
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
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Greek • يوناني (السبعينية / الأصلية)
Και αφού διέταξαν τον λαόν, άπαν το στράτευμα το προς βορράν της πόλεως και την ενέδραν αυτού προς δυσμάς της πόλεως, υπήγεν ο Ιησούς εκείνην την νύκτα εις το μέσον της κοιλάδος.
And when the king of Ai saw this he and all his people, the men of the city, made haste and went out early to the descent toward the Arabah to meet Israel in battle; but he did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
And it came to pass when the king of Gai saw it, he hasted and went out to meet them direct to the battle, he and all the people that were with him: and he knew not that there was an ambuscade formed against him behind the city.
Then the Lord said to Joshua, “Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai; for I will give it into your hand.” And Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
And the Lord said to Joshua, Stretch forth thy hand with the spear that is in thy hand toward the city, for I have delivered it into thy hands; and the liers in wait shall rise up quickly out of their place.
And the ambush rose quickly out of their place, and as soon as he had stretched out his hand, they ran and entered the city and took it; and they made haste to set the city on fire.
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
And Joshua stretched out his hand and his spear toward the city, and the ambuscade rose up quickly out of their place; and they came forth when he stretched out his hand; and they entered into the city, and took it; and they hasted and burnt the city with fire.
So when the men of Ai looked back, behold, the smoke of the city went up to heaven; and they had no power to flee this way or that, for the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
And when the inhabitants of Gai looked round behind them, then they saw the smoke going up out of the city to heaven, and they were no longer able to flee this way or that way.
And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city went up, then they turned back and smote the men of Ai.
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
And Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambuscade had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city went up to heaven; and they turned and smote the men of Gai.
And the others came forth from the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side; and Israel smote them, until there was left none that survived or escaped.
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
And these came forth out of the city to meet them; and they were in the midst of the army, some being on this side, and some on that; and they smote them until there was not left of them one who survived and escaped.
When Israel had finished slaughtering all the inhabitants of Ai in the open wilderness where they pursued them, and all of them to the very last had fallen by the edge of the sword, all Israel returned to Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
And when the children of Israel had ceased slaying all that were in Gai, and in the fields, and in the mountain on the descent, from whence they pursued them even to the end, then Joshua returned to Gai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.
Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took as their booty, according to the word of the Lord which he commanded Joshua.
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
Beside the spoils that were in the city, all things which the children of Israel took as spoil for themselves according to the command of the Lord, as the Lord commanded Joshua.
And he hanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening; and at the going down of the sun Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree, and cast it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised over it a great heap of stones, which stands there to this day.
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
And he hanged the king of Gai on a gallows; and he remained on the tree till evening: and when the sun went down, Joshua gave charge, and they took down his body from the tree, and cast it into a pit, and they set over him a heap of stones until this day.
as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded the people of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, “an altar of unhewn stones, upon which no man has lifted an iron tool”; and they offered on it burnt offerings to the Lord, and sacrificed peace offerings.
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
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Greek • يوناني (السبعينية / الأصلية)
καθώς ο Μωϋσής ο δούλος του Κυρίου προσέταξε τους υιούς Ισραήλ, κατά το γεγραμμένον εν τω βιβλίω του νόμου του Μωϋσέως, θυσιαστήριον εκ λίθων ολοκλήρων, επί των οποίων σίδηρος δεν επεβλήθη· και προσέφεραν επ' αυτό ολοκαύτωματα προς τον Κύριον και εθυσίασαν ειρηνικάς προσφοράς.
And all Israel, sojourner as well as homeborn, with their elders and officers and their judges, stood on opposite sides of the ark before the Levitical priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, half of them in front of Mount Geri′zim 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.
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
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Greek • يوناني (السبعينية / الأصلية)
Και πας ο Ισραήλ και οι πρεσβύτεροι αυτών και οι άρχοντες και οι κριταί αυτών εστάθησαν εντεύθεν και εντεύθεν της κιβωτού απέναντι των ιερέων των Λευϊτών, των βασταζόντων την κιβωτόν της διαθήκης του Κυρίου, και ο ξένος και ο αυτόχθων· το ήμισυ αυτών προς το όρος Γαριζίν και το ήμισυ αυτών προς το όρος Εβάλ· καθώς πρότερον προσέταξεν ο Μωϋσής ο δούλος του Κυρίου, διά να ευλογήσωσι τον λαόν του Ισραήλ.
There was not a word of all that Moses commanded which Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel, and the women, and the little ones, and the sojourners who lived among them.
Coptic English (عن القبطية)
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Greek • يوناني (السبعينية / الأصلية)
Δεν ήτο λόγος εκ πάντων όσα προσέταξεν ο Μωϋσής, τον οποίον ο Ιησούς δεν ανέγνωσεν ενώπιον πάσης της συναγωγής του Ισραήλ, μετά των γυναικών και των παιδίων και των ξένων των παρευρισκομένων μεταξύ αυτών.