Joshua 7:4 - The Scriptures 1998

⁴ And about three thousand men went up there from the people, but 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,

Joshua 7:4 Cross References

Psalm 89:43

Moreover You have turned back the edge of his sword, And have not made him stand in battle.

Isaiah 30:17

One thousand flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five you shall flee until you are left as a pole on top of a mountain and as a sign on a hill.

Isaiah 59:2

But your crookednesses have separated you from your Elohim. And your sins have hidden His face from you, from hearing.

Leviticus 26:17

‘And I shall set My face against you, and you shall be smitten before your enemies. And those who hate you shall rule over you, and you shall flee when no one pursues you.

Deuteronomy 28:25

“יהוה  causes you to be defeated before your enemies – you go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them. And you shall become a horror to all the reigns of the earth.

Deuteronomy 32:30

“How would one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Unless their Rock had sold them, And יהוה  had given them up?

Joshua 7:3

And they returned to Yehoshua and said to him, “Let not all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and smite Ai. Do not make all the people toil up there, for the people of Ai are few.”