Joshua 7:4 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁴ So about three thousand went up there from the people; and they fled before the men of Ai,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ So about three thousand Israelites went up there, but they fled before the men of Ai.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai.

Common English Bible

⁴ So about three thousand men from the people went up in that direction. But they fled from the men of Ai.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ Therefore, they went up with three thousand fighters. And they promptly turned their backs,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ There went up therefore three thousand fighting men: who immediately turned their backs,

Joshua 7:4 Cross References

Psalm 89:43

Yea, thou hast turned back the edge of his sword, and thou hast not made him stand in battle.

Isaiah 30:17

A thousand shall flee at the threat of one, at the threat of five you shall flee, till you are left like a flagstaff on the top of a mountain, like a signal on a hill.

Isaiah 59:2

but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you so that he does not hear.

Leviticus 26:17

I will set my face against you, and you shall be smitten before your enemies; those who hate you shall rule over you, and you shall flee when none pursues you.

Deuteronomy 28:25

“The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them; and you shall be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Deuteronomy 32:30

How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had given them up?

Joshua 7:3

And they returned to Joshua, and said to him, “Let not all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and attack Ai; do not make the whole people toil up there, for they are but few.”