¹A Hospodin riekol Jozuovi: Neboj sa ani sa nestrachuj! Pojmi so sebou všetok ľud, súci do boja, a vstaň a iď hore do Haja. Hľaďže, dal som do tvojej ruky kráľa mesta Haj i jeho ľud, jeho mesto i jeho zem.

¹And Jehovah said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou dismayed: take all the people of war with thee, and arise, go up to Ai; see, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land;

²A učiníš mestu Haj i jeho kráľovi, jako si učinil Jerichu i jeho kráľovi, len že jeho korisť i jeho dobytok ulúpite pre seba. Postav si úklad mestu od jeho tyla.

²And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves: set thee an ambush for the city behind it.

³Vtedy vstal Jozua, všetok ľud, súci do boja, aby išli hore do Haja. A Jozua vybral tridsať tisíc mužov, silných hrdinov, a poslal ich vopred vnoci.

³So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up to Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and sent them forth by night.

⁴A prikázal im a riekol: Hľaďte, vy budete úkladiť mestu od tyla mesta. Nevzdiaľte sa veľmi ďaleko od mesta a buďte všetci hotoví.

⁴And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city; go not very far from the city, but be ye all ready:

⁵A ja a všetok ľud, ktorý pojde so mnou, budeme sa blížiť mestu. A stane sa, keď vyjdú oproti nám ako tam prv, že budeme utekať pred nimi.

⁵and I, and all the people that are with me, will approach unto the city. And it shall come to pass, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them;

⁶A vyjdú za nami a pojdú, až ich odtrhneme od mesta, lebo povedia: Utekajú pred nami jako tam prv! A budeme utekať pred nimi.

⁶and they will come out after us, till we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: so we will flee before them;

⁷A vy vstanete z úkladiska a zaujmete mesto. A Hospodin, váš Bôh, ho dá do vašej ruky.

⁷and ye shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city: for Jehovah your God will deliver it into your hand.

⁸A stane sa, keď dosiahnete mesto, že ho zapálite ohňom; učiníte podľa slova Hospodinovho. Hľaďte, prikázal som vám!

⁸And it shall be, when ye have seized upon the city, that ye shall set the city on fire; according to the word of Jehovah shall ye do: see, I have commanded you.

⁹A tak ich poslal Jozua, a išli do úkladiska a zostali medzi Bét-elom a medzi Hajom, od západnej strany mesta Haj. A Jozua nocoval tej noci medzi ľudom.

⁹And Joshua sent them forth; and they went to the ambushment, and abode between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people.

¹⁰Potom vstanúc Jozua skoro ráno spočítal ľud a išiel hore, on i starší Izraelovi, pred ľudom k Haju.

¹⁰And Joshua arose up early in the morning, and mustered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.

¹¹A všetok bojovný ľud, ktorý bol s ním, išiel hore, priblížili sa a prišli naproti mestu a položili sa táborom od severnej strany Haja, a dolina bola medzi ním a medzi Hajom.

¹¹And all the people, [even] the [men of] war that were with him, went up, and drew nigh, and came before the city, and encamped on the north side of Ai: now there was a valley between him and Ai.

¹²A vzal okolo päť tisíc mužov a postavil ich úkladom medzi Bét-elom a medzi Hajom od západnej strany mesta.

¹²And he took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of the city.

¹³A rozostavil ľud, celý tábor, ktorý bol od severnej strany mesta, i jeho zadné vojsko od západnej strany mesta. A tak odišiel Jozua tej noci naprostred doliny.

¹³So they set the people, even all the host that was on the north of the city, and their liers-in-wait that were on the west of the city; and Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.

¹⁴A stalo sa, keď to videl kráľ mesta Haj, poponáhľali sa a vstanúc skoro ráno vyšli mužovia mesta vústrety Izraelovi do boja, on i všetok jeho ľud, na určený čas pred rovinu. Ale on nevedel, že mu úkladia od tyla mesta.

¹⁴And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted 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 knew not that there was an ambush against him behind the city.

¹⁵A Jozua a všetok Izrael sa staväli, jako keby boli porazení pred nimi a utekali cestou púšte.

¹⁵And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.

¹⁶Vtedy bol krikom povolaný všetok ľud, ktorý bol v meste, aby ich honili, a honili Jozuu a boli odtrhnutí od mesta.

¹⁶And all the people that were in the city were called together to pursue after them: and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.

¹⁷A nezostalo ani muža v meste Haj ani v Bét-ele, ktorý by nebol vyšiel za Izraelom, a zanechali mesto otvorené a honili Izraela.

¹⁷And there was not a man left in Ai or Beth-el, that went not out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.

¹⁸A Hospodin riekol Jozuovi: Vystri svojou kopiou, ktorá je v tvojej ruke, proti mestu Haj, lebo ho dám do tvojej ruky! A Jozua vystrel kopiou, ktorá bola v jeho ruke, proti mestu.

¹⁸And Jehovah said unto Joshua, Stretch out the javelin that is in thy hand toward Ai; for I will give it into thy hand. And Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.

¹⁹Vtedy povstal rýchle úklad zo svojho mesta, a bežali, hneď ako vystrel svoju ruku, a vojdúc do mesta zaujali ho, a chytro zapálili mesto ohňom.

¹⁹And 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; and they hasted and set the city on fire.

²⁰A mužovia Haja obzrúc sa nazpät videli, že hľa, vystupuje dym mesta do neba, a nebolo v nich sily utiecť ani sem ani ta, a ľud, ktorý utekal na púšť, obrátil sa zpät proti prenasledovateľovi.

²⁰And 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: and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.

²¹Keď potom videl Jozua i celý Izrael, že úklad zaujal mesto, a že vystupuje dym mesta, vrátili sa a bili mužov Haja.

²¹And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and slew the men of Ai.

²²A tamtí vyšli z mesta proti nim, a tak boli Izraelovi v prostredku, jedni im boli ztade a druhí ztade, a bili ich až im nikto nezostal živý ani z nich nikto neutiekol.

²²And the others came forth out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side: and they smote them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.

²³A kráľa Haja chytili živého a doviedli ho k Jozuovi.

²³And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.

²⁴A stalo sa, keď pobil Izrael všetkých obyvateľov mesta Haj na poli, na púšti, kam ich honili, a keď popadali všetci ostrím meča, až boli cele vyhladení, vtedy sa vrátil celý Izrael do mesta Haj, a zbili ho ostrím meča.

²⁴And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they pursued them, and they were all fallen by the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all Israel returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.

²⁵A bolo všetkých, ktorí padli toho dňa, od muža až do ženy, dvanásť tisíc, všetko ľudia mesta Haj.

²⁵And all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.

²⁶A Jozua nespustil svojej ruky, ktorú vystrel s kopiou, dokiaľ celkom nevyhladil všetkých obyvateľov Haja zarieknuc ich úplnej záhube.

²⁶For Joshua drew not back his hand, wherewith he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

²⁷Len dobytok a korisť toho mesta ulúpili pre seba synovia Izraelovi, podľa slova Hospodinovho, ktoré prikázal Jozuovi.

²⁷Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for prey unto themselves, according unto the word of Jehovah which he commanded Joshua.

²⁸A Jozua spálil Haj a učinil ho večnou hromadou a púšťou a je tak až do tohoto dňa.

²⁸So Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap for ever, even a desolation, unto this day.

²⁹A kráľa Haja obesil na strom a nechal ho visieť až do večera. Ale keď zašlo slnko, rozkázal Jozua, a sňali jeho mŕtvolu so stromu a hodili ju ku vrátam brány mesta a nanosili na neho veľkú hromadu kamenia, ktorá je tam až do tohoto dňa.

²⁹And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until the eventide: 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 thereon a great heap of stones, unto this day.

³⁰Vtedy postavil Jozua Hospodinovi, Bohu Izraelovmu, oltár na vrchu Ébale,

³⁰Then Joshua built an altar unto Jehovah, the God of Israel, in mount Ebal,

³¹tak ako prikázal Mojžiš, služobník Hospodinov, synom Izraelovým, ako je to napísané v knihe zákona Mojžišovho, oltár z celých kameňov netesaných, nad ktorými nepovzniesli železa. A obetovali na ňom zápalné obeti Hospodinovi a obetovali aj bitné obeti pokojné.

³¹as Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of unhewn stones, upon which no man had lifted up any iron: and they offered thereon burnt-offerings unto Jehovah, and sacrificed peace-offerings.

³²A napísal tam na tie kamene opis zákona Mojžišovho, ktorý napísal pred synmi Izraelovými.

³²And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote, in the presence of the children of Israel.

³³A celý Izrael i jeho starší i jeho správcovia i jeho sudcovia stáli s jednej i s druhej strany truhly pred kňazmi Levitami, ktorí nosili truhlu smluvy Hospodinovej, tak cudzí jako zrodení doma, polovica ich stála oproti vrchu Gerízimu a ich druhá polovica oproti vrchu Ébalu, tak ako prikázal Mojžiš, služobník Hospodinov, požehnávať ľud Izraelov najprv.

³³And all Israel, and their elders and officers, and their judges, stood on this side of the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, that bare the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, as well the sojourner as the homeborn; half of them in front of mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of Jehovah had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel.

³⁴Potom čítal všetky slová zákona, požehnanie i zlorečenie, všetko tak, ako je napísané v knihe zákona.

³⁴And 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.

³⁵Nebolo ničoho zo všetkého toho, čo prikázal Mojžiš, čoho by nebol čítal Jozua pred celou obcou Izraelovou, i pred ženami i pred deťmi i pred pohostínom, ktorý chodil v ich strede.

³⁵There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua read not before all the assembly of Israel, and the women, and the little ones, and the sojourners that were among them.