Joshua 7:4

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

Psalm 89:43

Moreover, You have turned back the edge of his sword, and You have not sustained him in battle.

Isaiah 30:17

One thousand shall flee at the threat of one man; at the threat of five you shall flee until you are left as a flag on the top of a mountain and as a banner on a hill.

Isaiah 59:2

But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you so that He will not hear.

Leviticus 26:17

I will set My face against you, and you shall be slain before your enemies. They that hate you shall reign over you, and you shall flee when none pursues you.

Deuteronomy 28:25

The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies, and you will go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them, and will become an object of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Deuteronomy 32:30

How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their rock had sold them, and the Lord had given them up?

Joshua 7:3

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.”