Yeşu 6

¹Eriha kapılarını sımsıkı kapatmış ve kuşatılmıştı; ne oradan dışarı çıkan vardı ne de içeri giren.

²Rab Yeşu’ya şöyle dedi: «Bak, Eriha’yı, onun kralını ve içindeki tüm kudretli savaşçıları senin eline teslim ediyorum.

³Sen ise tüm savaşçıları şehrin etrafına dizerek onu çevrele.

⁴Boruyla işaret verdiğiniz zaman, bütün halk hep birlikte yüksek sesle haykırsın.

⁵Onlar haykırınca şehrin surları kendiliğinden yıkılacak ve bütün halk, her biri doğrudan kendi önündeki yöne doğru atılarak şehre girecektir.»

⁶Nun oğlu Yeşu kâhinlerin yanına gitti ve onlara şöyle dedi:

⁷«Halka şehrin etrafını dolanıp onu kuşatmalarını buyurun; silahlı savaşçılar ise Rab’bin önünden geçip ilerlesin.»

⁸Yedi kutsal boru taşıyan yedi kâhin de aynı şekilde Rab’bin önünden geçip borularını güçlü bir şekilde çalsınlar; Rab’bin Antlaşma Sandığı da onların ardından gitsin.

⁹Silahlı savaşçılar önden ilerlesin, artçı kâhinler ise borularını çalarak Rab’bin Antlaşma Sandığı’nın arkasından gitsin.

¹⁰Yeşu halka şu buyruğu vermişti: «Bağırmayın, sesinizi kimse duymasın; ta ki ben size bağırın diyeceğim güne kadar. İşte o gün bağıracaksınız.»

¹¹Böylece Tanrı’nın Antlaşma Sandığı şehrin etrafını dolandıktan hemen sonra ordugâha döndü ve geceyi orada geçirdi.

¹²İkinci gün Yeşu sabah erkenden kalktı; kâhinler de Rab’bin Antlaşma Sandığı’nı yüklendiler.

¹³Yedi boru taşıyan yedi kâhin Rab’bin önünde ilerliyordu; onların ardından silahlı savaşçılar, Rab’bin Antlaşma Sandığı’nın arkasından ise geri kalan halk geliyordu. Kâhinler borularını çalarken, geri kalan halk da şehrin etrafını yakından altı kez dolandı.

¹⁴Sonra yine ordugâha döndüler. Altı gün boyunca bunu böyle yaptılar.

¹⁵Yedinci gün şafak sökerken kalktılar ve o gün şehrin etrafını aynı şekilde yedi kez dolandılar.

¹⁶Yedinci turda kâhinler boruları çaldılar. Yeşu İsrailoğulları’na, «Bağırın!» dedi, «Çünkü Rab şehri size verdi!

¹⁷Şehir ve içindeki her şey Orduların Rabbi olan Rab’be adanıp yok edilecektir. Yalnızca fahişe Rahav ile evinde olanları sağ bırakın; çünkü o, gözetlemek için gönderdiğimiz adamları gizledi.

¹⁸Ancak siz adanmış şeylerden kesinlikle uzak durun; olur ya canınız çeker de adanmış şeylerden birini alırsanız, İsrail ordugâhını lanete uğratır ve bizi yıkıma sürüklersiniz.

¹⁹Bütün gümüş, altın, tunç ve demir eşyalar Rab için kutsaldır; bunlar Rab’bin hazinesine konulacaktır.»

²⁰Kâhinler boruları çaldılar. Halk boru sesini duyar duymaz hep birlikte büyük ve güçlü bir savaş çığlığı attı; o anda bütün surlar çepeçevre yıkıldı. Halk da doğrudan önündeki yöne doğru şehre girdi.

²¹Yeşu şehri ve içindeki her şeyi; erkekten kadına, gençten yaşlıya, buzağıdan eşeğe kadar hepsini kılıçtan geçirerek adanmışlık lanetiyle yok etti.

²²Yeşu, şehri gözetlemiş olan o iki gence, «O kadının evine gidin» dedi, «Kendisine söz verdiğiniz gibi, kadını ve ona ait olan her şeyi oradan çıkarın.»

²³Şehri gözetleyen o iki genç içeri girip fahişe Rahav’ı, babasını, annesini, kardeşlerini, bütün akrabalarını ve ona ait olan her şeyi dışarı çıkardılar; onları İsrail ordugâhının dışına yerleştirdiler.

²⁴Şehir ve içindeki her şey ateşe verilip yakıldı; yalnız gümüşü, altını, tuncu ve demiri Rab’bin hazinesine konulmak üzere teslim ettiler.

²⁵Yeşu fahişe Rahav’ı, babasının ev halkını ve ona ait olan her şeyi sağ bıraktı. Rahav bugüne dek İsrail’in içinde yaşamaktadır; çünkü Yeşu’nun Eriha’yı gözetlemek için gönderdiği adamları gizlemişti.

²⁶O gün Yeşu Rab’bin önünde ant içerek şöyle dedi: «Bu şehri yeniden kurmaya kalkışan kişi Rab’bin önünde lanetli olsun! Temelini ilk oğluyla atsın, kapılarını ise en küçük oğluyla diksin.» Beytel’den olan Ozan da böyle yaptı; şehrin temelini ilk oğlu Abiron’la attı, kapılarını ise hayatta kalan en küçük oğluyla dikti.

²⁷Ve Rab Yeşu ile birlikteydi; onun adı bütün ülkede duyuldu.

¹ΚΑΙ ῾Ιεριχὼ συγκεκλεισμένη καὶ ὠχυρωμένη, καὶ οὐδεὶς ἐξεπορεύετο ἐξ αὐτῆς οὐδὲ εἰσεπορεύετο.

²καὶ εἶπε Κύριος πρὸς ᾿Ιησοῦν· ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ παραδίδωμι ὑποχείριόν σοι τὴν ῾Ιεριχὼ καὶ τὸν βασιλέα αὐτῆς τὸν ἐν αὐτῇ, δυνατοὺς ὄντας ἐν ἰσχύϊ·

³σὺ δὲ περίστησον αὐτῇ τοὺς μαχίμους κύκλῳ,

⁴καὶ ἔσται ὡς ἂν σαλπίσητε τῇ σάλπιγγι, ἀνακραγέτω πᾶς ὁ λαὸς ἅμα·

⁵καὶ ἀνακραγόντων αὐτῶν πεσεῖται αὐτόματα τὰ τείχη τῆς πόλεως, καὶ εἰσελεύσεται πᾶς ὁ λαὸς ὁρμήσας ἕκαστος κατὰ πρόσωπον εἰς τὴν πόλιν.

⁶καὶ εἰσῆλθεν ᾿Ιησοῦς ὁ τοῦ Ναυὴ πρὸς τοὺς ἱερεῖς

⁷καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς λέγων· παραγγείλατε τῷ λαῷ περιελθεῖν καὶ κυκλῶσαι τὴν πόλιν, καὶ οἱ μάχιμοι παραπορευέσθωσαν ἐνωπλισμένοι ἐναντίον Κυρίου·

⁸καὶ ἑπτὰ ἱερεῖς ἔχοντες ἑπτὰ σάλπιγγας ἱερὰς παρελθέτωσαν ὡσαύτως ἐναντίον τοῦ Κυρίου καὶ σημαινέτωσαν εὐτόνως, καὶ ἡ κιβωτὸς τῆς διαθήκης Κυρίου ἐπακολουθείτω·

⁹οἱ δὲ μάχιμοι παραπορευέσθωσαν ἔμπροσθεν καὶ οἱ ἱερεῖς οἱ οὐραγοῦντες ὀπίσω τῆς κιβωτοῦ τῆς διαθήκης Κυρίου πορευόμενοι σαλπίζοντες.

¹⁰τῷ δὲ λαῷ ἐνετείλατο ᾿Ιησοῦς λέγων· μὴ βοᾶτε, μηδὲ ἀκουσάτω μηδεὶς τὴν φωνὴν ὑμῶν, ἕως ἂν ἡμέραν διαγγείλῃ αὐτὸς ἀναβοῆσαι, καὶ τότε ἀναβοήσετε.

¹¹καὶ περιελθοῦσα ἡ κιβωτὸς τῆς διαθήκης τοῦ Θεοῦ εὐθέως ἀπῆλθεν εἰς τὴν παρεμβολὴν καὶ ἐκοιμήθη ἐκεῖ.

¹²καὶ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τῇ δευτέρᾳ ἀνέστη ᾿Ιησοῦς τὸ πρωΐ, καὶ ᾖραν οἱ ἱερεῖς τὴν κιβωτὸν τῆς διαθήκης Κυρίου,

¹³καὶ οἱ ἑπτὰ ἱερεῖς οἱ φέροντες τὰς σάλπιγγας τὰς ἑπτὰ προεπορεύοντο ἐναντίον Κυρίου, καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα εἰσεπορεύοντο οἱ μάχιμοι καὶ ὁ λοιπὸς ὄχλος ὄπισθεν τῆς κιβωτοῦ τῆς διαθήκης Κυρίου· καὶ οἱ ἱερεῖς ἐσάλπισαν ταῖς σάλπιγξι, καὶ ὁ λοιπὸς ὄχλος ἅπας περιεκύκλωσε τὴν πόλιν ἑξάκις ἐγγύθεν

¹⁴καὶ ἀπῆλθε πάλιν εἰς τὴν παρεμβολήν. οὕτως ἐποίει ἐπὶ ἓξ ἡμέρας.

¹⁵καὶ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τῇ ἑβδόμῃ ἀνέστησαν ὄρθρου καὶ περιήλθοσαν τὴν πόλιν ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ ἑπτάκις·

¹⁶καὶ ἐγένετο τῇ περιόδῳ τῇ ἑβδόμῃ ἐσάλπισαν οἱ ἱερεῖς, καὶ εἶπεν ᾿Ιησοῦς τοῖς υἱοῖς ᾿Ισραήλ· κεκράξατε, παρέδωκε γὰρ Κύριος ὑμῖν τὴν πόλιν.

¹⁷καὶ ἔσται ἡ πόλις ἀνάθεμα, αὐτὴ καὶ πάντα, ὅσα ἐστὶν ἐν αὐτῇ, Κυρίῳ Σαβαώθ· πλὴν Ῥαὰβ τὴν πόρνην περιποιήσασθε, αὐτὴν καὶ πάντα ὅσα ἐστὶν ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ αὐτῆς.

¹⁸ἀλλὰ ὑμεῖς φυλάξεσθε σφόδρα ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀναθέματος, μήποτε ἐνθυμηθέντες ὑμεῖς αὐτοὶ λάβητε ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀναθέματος καὶ ποιήσητε τὴν παρεμβολὴν τῶν υἱῶν ᾿Ισραὴλ ἀνάθεμα καὶ ἐκτρίψητε ἡμᾶς·

¹⁹καὶ πᾶν ἀργύριον ἢ χρυσίον ἢ χαλκὸς ἢ σίδηρος ἅγιον ἔσται τῷ Κυρίῳ, εἰς θησαυρὸν Κυρίου εἰσενεχθήσεται.

²⁰καὶ ἐσάλπισαν ταῖς σάλπιγξιν οἱ ἱερεῖς· ὡς δὲ ἤκουσεν ὁ λαὸς τῶν σαλπίγγων, ἠλάλαξε πᾶς ὁ λαὸς ἅμα ἀλαλαγμῷ μεγάλῳ καὶ ἰσχυρῷ καὶ ἔπεσεν ἅπαν τὸ τεῖχος κύκλῳ, καὶ ἀνέβη πᾶς ὁ λαὸς εἰς τὴν πόλιν.

²¹καὶ ἀνεθεμάτισεν αὐτὴν ᾿Ιησοῦς καὶ ὅσα ἦν ἐν τῇ πόλει ἀπὸ ἀνδρὸς καὶ ἕως γυναικός, ἀπὸ νεανίσκου καὶ ἕως πρεσβύτου καὶ ἕως μόσχου καὶ ὑποζυγίου, ἐν στόματι ῥομφαίας.

²²καὶ τοῖς δυσὶ νεανίσκοις τοῖς κατασκοπεύσασιν εἶπεν ᾿Ιησοῦς· εἰσέλθατε εἰς τὴν οἰκίαν τῆς γυναικὸς καὶ ἐξαγάγετε αὐτὴν ἐκεῖθεν καὶ ὅσα ἐστὶν αὐτῇ.

²³καὶ εἰσῆλθον οἱ δύο νεανίσκοι οἱ κατασκοπεύσαντες τὴν πόλιν εἰς τὴν οἰκίαν τῆς γυναικὸς καὶ ἐξηγάγοσαν Ῥαὰβ τὴν πόρνην καὶ τὸν πατέρα αὐτῆς καὶ τὴν μητέρα αὐτῆς καὶ τοὺς ἀδελφοὺς αὐτῆς καὶ τὴν συγγένειαν αὐτῆς καὶ πάντα, ὅσα ἦν αὐτῇ, καὶ κατέστησαν αὐτὴν ἔξω τῆς παρεμβολῆς ᾿Ισραήλ.

²⁴καὶ ἡ πόλις ἐνεπρήσθη ἐν πυρισμῷ σὺν πᾶσι τοῖς ἐν αὐτῇ, πλὴν ἀργυρίου καὶ χρυσίου καὶ χαλκοῦ καὶ σιδήρου ἔδωκαν εἰς θησαυρὸν Κυρίου εἰσενεχθῆναι.

²⁵καὶ Ῥαὰβ τὴν πόρνην καὶ πάντα τὸν οἶκον αὐτῆς τὸν πατρικὸν ἐζώγρησεν ᾿Ιησοῦς, καὶ κατῴκησεν ἐν τῷ ᾿Ισραὴλ ἕως τῆς σήμερον ἡμέρας, διότι ἔκρυψε τοὺς κατασκοπεύσαντας, οὓς ἀπέστειλεν ᾿Ιησοῦς κατασκοπεῦσαι τὴν ῾Ιεριχώ.

²⁶καὶ ὥρκισεν ᾿Ιησοῦς ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ ἐναντίον Κυρίου λέγων· ἐπικατάρατος ὁ ἄνθρωπος, ὃς οἰκοδομήσει τὴν πόλιν ἐκείνην· ἐν τῷ προωτοτόκῳ αὐτοῦ θεμελιώσει αὐτὴν καὶ ἐν τῷ ἐλαχίστῳ αὐτοῦ ἐπιστήσει τὰς πύλας αὐτῆς. καὶ οὕτως ἐποίησεν ῾Οζᾶν ὁ ἐκ Βαιθὴλ ἐν τῷ ᾿Αβιρὼν τῷ πρωτοτόκῳ ἐθεμελίωσεν αὐτὴν καὶ ἐν τῷ ἐλαχίστῳ διασωθέντι ἐπέστησε τὰς πύλας αὐτῆς.

²⁷καὶ ἦν Κύριος μετὰ ᾿Ιησοῦ, καὶ ἦν τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ κατὰ πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν.

¹Now Jericho was closely shut up and besieged, and none went out of it, and none came in.

²And the Lord said to Joshua, Behold, I deliver Jericho into thy power, and its king in it, [and its] mighty men.

³And do thou set the men of war round about it.

⁴And it shall be [that] when ye shall sound with the trumpet, all the people shall shout together.

⁵And when they have shouted, the walls of the city shall fall of themselves; and all the people shall enter, each one rushing direct into the city.

⁶And Joshua the [son] of Naue went in to the priests,

⁷and spoke to them, saying,

⁸And let seven priests having seven sacred trumpets proceed thus before the Lord, and let them sound loudly; and let the ark of the covenant of the Lord follow. Charge the people to go round, and encompass the city; and let your men of war pass on armed before the Lord.

⁹And let the men of war proceed before, and the priests bringing up the rear behind the ark of the covenant of the Lord [proceed] sounding the trumpets.

¹⁰And Joshua commanded the people, saying, Cry not out, nor let any one hear your voice, until he himself declare to you the time to cry out, and then ye shall cry out.

¹¹And the ark of the covenant of God having gone round immediately returned into the camp, and lodged there.

¹²And on the second day Joshua rose up in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the covenant of the Lord.

¹³And the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets went on before the Lord; and afterwards the men of war went on, and the remainder of the multitude went after the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.

¹⁴And all the rest of the multitude compassed the city six times from within a short distance, and went back again into the camp; this they did six days.

¹⁵And on the seventh day they rose up early, and compassed the city on that day seven times.

¹⁶And it came to pass at the seventh circuit the priests blew the trumpets; and Joshua said to the children of Israel, Shout, for the Lord has given you the city.

¹⁷And the city shall be devoted, it and all things that are in it, to the Lord of Hosts: only do ye save Raab the harlot, and all things in her house.

¹⁸But keep yourselves strictly from the accursed thing, lest ye set your mind upon and take of the accursed thing, and ye make the camp of the children of Israel and accursed thing, and destroy us.

¹⁹And all the silver, or gold, or brass, or iron, shall be holy to the Lord; it shall be carried into the treasury of the Lord.

²⁰And the priests sounded with the trumpets: and when the people heard the trumpets, all the people shouted at once with a loud and strong shout; and all the wall fell round about, and all the people went up into the city:

²¹and Joshua devoted it to destruction, and all things that were in the city, man and woman, young man and old, and calf and ass, with the edge of the sword.

²²And Joshua said to the two young men who had acted a spies, Go into the house of the woman, and bring her out thence, and all that she has.

²³And the two young men who had spied out the city entered into the house of the woman, and brought out Raab the harlot, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and her kindred, and all that she had; and they set her without the camp of Israel.

²⁴And the city was burnt with fire with all things that were in it; only of the silver, and gold, and brass, and iron, they gave to be brought into the treasury of the Lord.

²⁵And Joshua saved alive Raab the harlot, and all the house of her father, and caused her to dwell in Israel until this day, because she hid the spies which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

²⁶And Joshua adjured [them] on that day before the Lord, saying, Cursed [be] the man who shall build that city: he shall lay the foundation of it in his first-born, and he shall set up the gates of it in his youngest son. And so did Hozan of Baethel; he laid the foundation in Abiron his first-born, and set up the gates of it in his youngest surviving son.

²⁷And the Lord was with Joshua, and his name was in all the land.