Joshua 7:3

Good News Translation

they reported back to Joshua: “There is no need for everyone to attack Ai. Send only about two or three thousand men. Don't send the whole army up there to fight; it is not a large city.”

Cross References

Proverbs 13:4

No matter how much a lazy person may want something, he will never get it. A hard worker will get everything he wants.

Proverbs 21:25

Lazy people who refuse to work are only killing themselves;

Luke 13:24

“Do your best to go in through the narrow door; because many people will surely try to go in but will not be able.

Hebrews 4:11

Let us, then, do our best to receive that rest, so that no one of us will fail as they did because of their lack of faith.

Joshua 7:2

Joshua sent some men from Jericho to Ai, a city east of Bethel, near Bethaven, with orders to go and explore the land. When they had done so,

Joshua 7:4

So about three thousand Israelites made the attack, but they were forced to retreat.

2 Peter 1:10

So then, my friends, try even harder to make God's call and his choice of you a permanent experience; if you do so, you will never abandon your faith.

2 Peter 1:5

For this very reason do your best to add goodness to your faith; to your goodness add knowledge;