Joshua 7:4

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

So about three thousand of the people went up there; and they fled before the men of Ai.

Cross References

Psalm 89:43

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

Isaiah 30:17

A thousand shall flee at the threat of one, at the threat of five you shall flee, until you are left like a flagstaff on the top of a mountain, like a signal on a hill.

Isaiah 59:2

Rather, your iniquities have been barriers between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.

Leviticus 26:17

I will set my face against you, and you shall be struck down by your enemies; your foes shall rule over you, and you shall flee though no one pursues you.

Deuteronomy 28:25

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

Deuteronomy 32:30

How could one have routed a thousand, and two put a myriad to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, the Lord had given them up?

Joshua 7:3

Then they returned to Joshua and said to him, “Not all the people need go up; about two or three thousand men should go up and attack Ai. Since they are so few, do not make the whole people toil up there.”