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Joshua 8 Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)

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BES Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
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1 Entonces el Señor dijo a Josué: «No tengas miedo ni te desanimes. Toma contigo a todos los hombres de guerra y sube contra Hai. Mira, he entregado en tus manos al rey de Hai, a su pueblo, su ciudad y su tierra.
1 Yahweh said to Joshua, “Don’t be afraid, and don’t be dismayed. Take all the warriors with you, and arise, go up to Ai. Behold, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, with his people, his city, and his land.
2 Harás con Hai y con su rey lo mismo que hiciste con Jericó y su rey. Pero esta vez podrán quedarse con sus bienes y su ganado. Pon una fuerza escondida detrás de la ciudad para atacarla por sorpresa».
2 You shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king, except you shall take its goods and its livestock for yourselves. Set an ambush for the city behind it.”
3 Josué y todos los hombres de guerra se prepararon para subir contra Hai. Josué escogió treinta mil hombres valientes y los envió de noche.
3 So Joshua arose, with all the warriors, to go up to Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and sent them out by night.
4 Les ordenó: «Escóndanse detrás de la ciudad, sin alejarse mucho de ella, y estén todos preparados.
4 He commanded them, saying, “Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city. Don’t go very far from the city, but all of you be ready.
5 Yo y todo el pueblo que está conmigo nos acercaremos a la ciudad. Cuando ellos salgan contra nosotros, como hicieron antes, huiremos delante de ellos.
5 I and all the people who are with me will approach the city. It shall happen, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them.
6 Ellos saldrán tras nosotros hasta que los hayamos alejado de la ciudad, porque pensarán: “Están huyendo de nosotros como la primera vez”. Mientras huimos delante de ellos,
6 They will come out after us until we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, ‘They flee before us, like the first time.’ So we will flee before them,
7 ustedes saldrán de su escondite y tomarán la ciudad, porque el Señor su Dios la entregará en sus manos.
7 and you shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city; for Yahweh your God will deliver it into your hand.
8 Cuando hayan tomado la ciudad, préndanle fuego, como el Señor ha ordenado. Estas son mis instrucciones».
8 It shall be, when you have seized the city, that you shall set the city on fire. You shall do this according to Yahweh’s word. Behold, I have commanded you.”
9 Josué los envió, y ellos se escondieron entre Betel y Hai, al oeste de Hai. Josué pasó aquella noche con el pueblo.
9 Joshua sent them out; and they went to set up the ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai on the west side of Ai; but Joshua stayed among the people that night.
10 Josué se levantó temprano por la mañana, reunió al pueblo y subió hacia Hai al frente de ellos junto con los ancianos de Israel.
10 Joshua rose up early in the morning, mustered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.
11 Todos los hombres de guerra que estaban con él avanzaron y se acercaron a la ciudad. Acamparon al norte de Hai, con un valle entre ellos y la ciudad.
11 All the people, even the men of war who were with him, went up and came near, and came before the city and encamped on the north side of Ai. Now there was a valley between him and Ai.
12 Josué tomó unos cinco mil hombres y los puso escondidos entre Betel y Hai, al oeste de la ciudad.
12 He took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.
13 Así el pueblo tomó sus posiciones: el ejército principal estaba al norte de la ciudad y la fuerza escondida estaba al oeste. Aquella noche Josué bajó al valle.
13 So they set the people, even all the army who was on the north of the city, and their ambush on the west of the city; and Joshua went that night into the middle of the valley.
14 Cuando el rey de Hai vio esto, él y todo su pueblo se levantaron temprano y salieron rápidamente para combatir contra Israel en el lugar señalado frente al valle. Pero no sabía que había una fuerza escondida detrás de la ciudad.
14 When the king of Ai saw it, they hurried 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 didn’t know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.
15 Josué y todo Israel fingieron ser derrotados y huyeron por el camino del desierto.
15 Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.
16 Entonces todos los hombres de Hai salieron para perseguirlos. Persiguieron a Josué y se alejaron de la ciudad.
16 All the people who were in the city were called together to pursue after them. They pursued Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.
17 No quedó ningún hombre en Hai ni en Betel que no saliera tras Israel. Dejaron la ciudad abierta y sin defensa mientras perseguían a Israel.
17 There was not a man left in Ai or Bethel who didn’t go out after Israel. They left the city open, and pursued Israel.
18 Entonces el Señor dijo a Josué: «Extiende la lanza que tienes en la mano hacia Hai, porque voy a entregarla en tus manos». Josué extendió la lanza hacia la ciudad.
18 Yahweh said to Joshua, “Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand.” Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.
19 En cuanto vieron la señal, los hombres que estaban escondidos salieron rápidamente de su lugar, corrieron a la ciudad, la tomaron y enseguida le prendieron fuego.
19 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. They hurried and set the city on fire.
20 Cuando los hombres de Hai miraron atrás, vieron el humo de la ciudad que subía al cielo. Ya no tenían por dónde escapar, porque los israelitas que habían huido hacia el desierto se volvieron contra sus perseguidores.
20 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. The people who fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers.
21 Cuando Josué y todo Israel vieron que la fuerza escondida había tomado la ciudad y que el humo subía de ella, se volvieron y atacaron a los hombres de Hai.
21 When Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned back and killed the men of Ai.
22 Los israelitas que habían tomado la ciudad también salieron contra ellos. Así los hombres de Hai quedaron atrapados entre dos fuerzas de Israel. Israel los derrotó y no dejó escapar a ninguno.
22 The others came out of the city against them, so they were in the middle of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side. They struck them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.
23 Pero capturaron vivo al rey de Hai y lo llevaron ante Josué.
23 They captured the king of Ai alive, and brought him to Joshua.
24 Cuando Israel terminó de matar a todos los habitantes de Hai que los habían perseguido hasta el campo y el desierto, regresó a la ciudad y mató a los que quedaban allí.
24 When Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they pursued them, and they had all fallen by the edge of the sword until they were consumed, all Israel returned to Ai and struck it with the edge of the sword.
25 Aquel día murieron doce mil hombres y mujeres, todos los habitantes de Hai.
25 All that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the people of Ai.
26 Josué no bajó la mano con la que sostenía la lanza hasta que todos los habitantes de Hai fueron destruidos.
26 For Joshua didn’t draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
27 Pero Israel se quedó con el ganado y los bienes de la ciudad, tal como el Señor había ordenado a Josué.
27 Israel took for themselves only the livestock and the goods of that city, according to Yahweh’s word which he commanded Joshua.
28 Josué quemó Hai y la convirtió para siempre en un montón de ruinas, como permanece hasta hoy.
28 So Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day.
29 Hizo matar al rey de Hai y lo colgó de un árbol hasta la tarde. Al ponerse el sol, Josué ordenó que bajaran el cuerpo del árbol. Lo arrojaron a la entrada de la ciudad y levantaron sobre él un gran montón de piedras, que permanece allí hasta hoy.
29 He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until the evening. At sundown, Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised a great heap of stones on it that remains to this day.
30 Entonces Josué construyó un altar al Señor, Dios de Israel, en el monte Ebal,
30 Then Joshua built an altar to Yahweh, the God of Israel, on Mount Ebal,
31 tal como Moisés, siervo del Señor, había ordenado a los hijos de Israel y como está escrito en el libro de la ley de Moisés. Era un altar de piedras sin labrar, que ninguna herramienta de hierro había tocado. Sobre él ofrecieron holocaustos y ofrendas de paz al Señor.
31 as Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses: an altar of uncut stones, on which no one had lifted up any iron. They offered burnt offerings on it to Yahweh and sacrificed peace offerings.
32 Allí, sobre las piedras, Josué escribió delante de los hijos de Israel una copia de la ley de Moisés.
32 He wrote there on the stones a copy of Moses’ law, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.
33 Todo Israel, tanto los israelitas como los extranjeros que vivían entre ellos, junto con sus ancianos, oficiales y jueces, se colocó a ambos lados del arca frente a los sacerdotes levitas que llevaban el arca del pacto del Señor. La mitad del pueblo estaba frente al monte Gerizim y la otra mitad frente al monte Ebal, tal como Moisés, siervo del Señor, había ordenado anteriormente para bendecir al pueblo de Israel.
33 All Israel, with their elders, officers, and judges, stood on both sides of the ark before the Levitical priests, who carried the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, the foreigner as well as the native; half of them in front of Mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of Yahweh had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel.
34 Después Josué leyó todas las palabras de la ley, la bendición y la maldición, tal como están escritas en el libro de la ley.
34 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.
35 No hubo una sola palabra de todo lo que Moisés había ordenado que Josué no leyera ante toda la asamblea de Israel, incluyendo a las mujeres, los niños y los extranjeros que vivían entre ellos.
35 There was not a word of all that Moses commanded which Joshua didn’t read before all the assembly of Israel, with the women, the little ones, and the foreigners who were among them.

People & places in this chapter

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Places

  • Ai

    Today: West Bank (central hills, near Bethel)

    Ai's identification is disputed — the traditional site of et-Tell doesn't fit the conquest period neatly, so scholars debate its location (approximate). Achan's sin and the ambush belong here.

    Cited in the guide: Joshua 7:2; Joshua 8:28

Cross references (32)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Joshua 1:9; Deuteronomy 7:18; Deuteronomy 31:8; Deuteronomy 1:21; Joshua 6:2
  2. 2 Deuteronomy 20:14; Joshua 6:21; 2 Chronicles 20:22; Proverbs 13:22; Joshua 8:12
  3. 3 1 Thessalonians 5:2; Matthew 25:6; Matthew 24:50; Matthew 24:39; 2 Peter 3:10
  4. 4 Judges 20:29; Ecclesiastes 9:16; Acts 23:21; 1 Samuel 15:2; Judges 9:25
  5. 5 Joshua 7:5; Judges 20:31–33; Matthew 10:16
  6. 6 Judges 20:32; Ecclesiastes 9:12; Exodus 15:9; Exodus 14:3; Ecclesiastes 8:11
  7. 7 Proverbs 21:30–31; Joshua 8:1; 2 Kings 5:1
  8. 8 2 Samuel 13:28; Joshua 1:9; Joshua 1:16; Joshua 8:28; Joshua 6:24
  9. 9 Ezra 2:28; Genesis 12:8; Genesis 32:21; Joshua 8:12; Nehemiah 7:32
  10. 10 Joshua 7:16; Genesis 22:3; Psalm 119:60; Joshua 3:1; Joshua 6:12
  11. 12 Joshua 8:2–3
  12. 13 Joshua 8:8; Joshua 8:12
  13. 14 Matthew 24:39; Isaiah 19:13; Joshua 8:16; Isaiah 19:11; 2 Peter 2:3
  14. 15 Joshua 18:12; Joshua 15:61; Joshua 16:1; Judges 20:36
  15. 16 Judges 20:31; Judges 20:36–39; Psalm 9:16; Ezekiel 38:11–22; Revelation 16:14
  16. 17 Joshua 11:20; Joshua 8:3; Isaiah 19:11–13; Job 5:13; Deuteronomy 2:30
  17. 18 Joshua 8:26; Job 15:25; 1 Samuel 17:6; Joshua 8:7; Exodus 17:9–12
  18. 20 Job 11:20; Genesis 19:28; Psalm 76:5; Revelation 6:15–17; Revelation 19:3
  19. 22 Deuteronomy 7:2; 1 Thessalonians 5:3; Joshua 11:11–12; Joshua 10:28; Luke 17:26–30
  20. 23 1 Samuel 15:8; Revelation 19:20; Joshua 10:17; Joshua 8:29
  21. 24 Joshua 11:10–14; Numbers 21:24; Joshua 10:30–41
  22. 25 Deuteronomy 20:16–18
  23. 26 Exodus 17:11–12; Joshua 8:18
  24. 27 Joshua 8:2; Numbers 31:26; Matthew 20:15; Psalm 50:10; Joshua 11:4
  25. 28 Deuteronomy 13:16; Jeremiah 49:2; Isaiah 17:1; Jeremiah 50:26; Joshua 4:9
  26. 29 Deuteronomy 21:22–23; 2 Samuel 18:17; Joshua 7:26; Psalm 110:5; Acts 12:23
  27. 30 Deuteronomy 27:4–6; Exodus 20:24; Genesis 8:20; Genesis 12:7–8
  28. 31 Deuteronomy 27:5–7; Exodus 20:24–25; Joshua 8:34–35; Joshua 1:8; Exodus 18:12
  29. 32 Deuteronomy 27:8; Deuteronomy 27:2–3
  30. 33 Deuteronomy 11:29; Deuteronomy 31:12; Deuteronomy 27:11–14; Deuteronomy 31:9; Exodus 12:49
  31. 34 Nehemiah 8:2–3; Nehemiah 13:1; Deuteronomy 31:10–12; Deuteronomy 29:20–21; Deuteronomy 30:15–20
  32. 35 Deuteronomy 31:12; Nehemiah 8:2; Jeremiah 26:2; Joel 2:16; Deuteronomy 29:11

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences