And I, and all the people that [are] with me, will approach unto the city: and it shall come to pass, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them,
And the men of ‘Ai [Heap of Ruins] struck of them about thirty and six men: for they chased them [from] before the gate [even] unto Sh’varim [the breaches], and struck them in the going down: wherefore the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.
(For they will come out after us) till we have drawn them from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: therefore we will flee before them.