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◄ ← YEHO (JOS) 8:16 ↓ → ► ║ ≡ ©
People tagged in the matching LV passage: Joshua (EXO 17:9)
OET-LV And_they_were_called_together all_of the_people which in/on/at/with[fn] to_pursue after_them and_they_pursued after Yəhōshūˊa and_they_were_drawn_out from the_city.
8:16 OSHB variant note: ב/עיר: (x-qere) ’בָּ/עַ֔י’: lemma=b/5857 n=1.1 morph=HR/Np id=06JcF בָּ/עַ֔י
OET (OET-RV) and all the men in the city were called out to chase them. So they chased after Yehoshua and were drawn away from the city,
In chapter 7, Israel attacked Ai and the soldiers of Ai defeated them. They were discouraged but they repented of their sin. In chapter 8, God told Joshua to attack Ai again. This time, the Israelites were victorious and defeated Ai.
Verses 8:1–9 describe Joshua’s preparations to attack Ai, with details about the ambush. The soldiers in the ambush left by night ahead of the other soldiers. Verses 8:10–27 describe the movement of the soldiers, and the defeat of Ai. Verses 8:28–29 is a summary of the story.
Here are some other possible section headings:
The fall and destruction of Ai
Israel conquered Ai
Then all the men of Ai were summoned to pursue them,
So the king of Ai called all his soldiers together to chase the Israelites.
So all the men of Ai gathered together to chase the Israelites.
Then all the men of Ai: The phrase all the men of Ai refers to the fighting men of Ai.
were summoned to pursue them: The phrase were summoned is a passive.
Here are some other ways to translate this phrase:
the king called them together
they all gathered together
and they followed Joshua and were drawn away from the city.
As they chased Joshua, they were lured away from the city.
Joshua’s army kept running so that they could lead them further away from Ai.
and they followed Joshua: The phrase they followed Joshua implies that the soldiers of Ai chased the Israelite soldiers. It may be clearer to make this information explicit in some languages.
For example:
and as the army of Ai pursued Joshua and his army
were drawn away from the city: The Israelite army kept running away from the town so that the soldiers of Ai would go far away from it.
Here are some other ways to translate this phrase:
they were lured away from the city (NIV)
they kept getting farther away from the city (GNT)
they were deceived into going far from the town
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive
וַיִּזָּעֲק֗וּ כָּל־הָעָם֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר בעיר
(Some words not found in UHB: and,they_were_called_together all/each/any/every the,people which/who in/on/at/with, to,pursue after,them and,they_pursued after Yəhōshūˊa/(Joshua) and,they_were_drawn_out from/more_than the=city )
If your language does not use the passive form in this way, you could express this in active form or in another way that is natural in your language. Alternate translation: [And the king summoned all of the people who were in the city]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
כָּל־הָעָם֙
(Some words not found in UHB: and,they_were_called_together all/each/any/every the,people which/who in/on/at/with, to,pursue after,them and,they_pursued after Yəhōshūˊa/(Joshua) and,they_were_drawn_out from/more_than the=city )
In this context, the phrase the people refers to the men who were able to fight. It is clear from Joshua 8:24 that other people remained in the city. Alternate translation: [all of the fighting men]
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive
וַיִּנָּתְק֖וּ
(Some words not found in UHB: and,they_were_called_together all/each/any/every the,people which/who in/on/at/with, to,pursue after,them and,they_pursued after Yəhōshūˊa/(Joshua) and,they_were_drawn_out from/more_than the=city )
If your language does not use this passive form, you could express the idea in active form or in another way that is natural in your language. Alternate translation: [and this drew them away]
OET-LV And_they_were_called_together all_of the_people which in/on/at/with[fn] to_pursue after_them and_they_pursued after Yəhōshūˊa and_they_were_drawn_out from the_city.
8:16 OSHB variant note: ב/עיר: (x-qere) ’בָּ/עַ֔י’: lemma=b/5857 n=1.1 morph=HR/Np id=06JcF בָּ/עַ֔י
OET (OET-RV) and all the men in the city were called out to chase them. So they chased after Yehoshua and were drawn away from the city,
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The Hebrew text, lemmas, and morphology are all thanks to the OSHB and some of the glosses are from Macula Hebrew.
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