Joshua 7:4

A Conservative Version

So there went up there of the people about three thousand men. And they fled before the men of Ai.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:25

LORD will cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies. Thou shall go out one way against them, and shall flee seven ways before them. And thou shall be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth.

Leviticus 26:17

And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be smitten before your enemies. Those who hate you shall rule over you, and ye shall flee when no man pursues you.

Isaiah 59:2

But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you so that he will not hear.

Isaiah 30:17

One thousand [shall flee] at the threat of one. Ye shall flee at the threat of five, till ye are left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on a hill.

Deuteronomy 32:30

How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight unless their Rock had sold them, and LORD had delivered 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 smite Ai. Do not make all the people to toil there, for they are but few.

Psalm 89:43

Yea, thou turn back the edge of his sword, and have not made him to stand in the battle.