Joshua 7:4

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

Cross References

Isaiah 30:17

A thousand men will flee in terror from the face of one, and you will flee in terror from the face of five, until you who have been left behind are like the mast of a ship at the top of a mountain, or like a sign on a hill.

Isaiah 59:2

But your iniquities have made a division between you and your God, and your sins have concealed his face from you, so that he would not hear.

Leviticus 26:17

I will set my face against you, and you will fall down before your enemies, and you will be subjugated to those who hate you. You will flee, though no one pursues.

Deuteronomy 28:25

May the Lord hand you over to fall before your enemies. May you go forth against them by one way, and flee by seven ways, and may you be scattered across all the kingdoms of the earth.

Deuteronomy 32:30

How is it that one pursues a thousand, and two chases ten thousand? Is it not because their God has sold them, and because the Lord has enclosed them?

Joshua 7:3

And returning, they said to him: "Let not the entire people go up. Instead, let two or three thousand men go out and destroy the city. Why should all the people be troubled without cause against enemies that are so very few?"