Joshua 7:4

New American Bible - revised edition

About three thousand of the people made the attack, but they fled before the army at Ai,

Cross References

Psalm 89:43

You have exalted the right hand of his foes, have gladdened all his enemies.

Isaiah 30:17

A thousand shall tremble at the threat of one— if five threaten, you shall flee. You will then be left like a flagstaff on a mountaintop, like a flag on a hill.

Isaiah 59:2

Rather, it is your crimes that separate you from your God, It is your sins that make him hide his face so that he does not hear you.

Leviticus 26:17

I will turn against you, and you will be beaten down before your enemies and your foes will lord it over you. You will flee though no one pursues you.

Deuteronomy 28:25

The Lord will let you be beaten down before your enemies; though you advance against them from one direction, you will flee before them in seven, so that you will become an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Deuteronomy 32:30

“How could one rout a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, Unless it was because their Rock sold them, the Lord delivered them up?”

Joshua 7:3

they returned to Joshua and advised, “Do not send all the people up; if only about two or three thousand go up, they can attack and overcome Ai. You need not tire all the people: the enemy there are few.”