Joshua 7:3

Modern English Version

Then they returned to Joshua and said to him, “All the people need not go up. Let about two or three thousand men go up and strike Ai. Since they are so few, all the people need not weary themselves.”

Cross References

2 Peter 1:10

Therefore, brothers, diligently make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.

2 Peter 1:5

For this reason make every effort to add virtue to your faith; and to your virtue, knowledge;

Hebrews 4:11

Let us labor therefore to enter that rest, lest anyone fall by the same pattern of unbelief.

Luke 13:24

“Strive to enter through the narrow gate. For many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.

Proverbs 21:25

The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to work.

Proverbs 13:4

The soul of the sluggard desires and gets nothing, but the soul of the diligent will be made fat.

Joshua 7:2

Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai (which is near Beth-aven, east of Bethel) and said to them, “Go up and spy on the land.” So the men went up and spied on Ai.

Joshua 7:4

So about three thousand men went up from among the people there, but they fled from before the men of Ai.