Joshua 7:3

Young's Literal Translation 1898

and they turn back unto Joshua, and say unto him, ‘Let not all the people go up; let about two thousand men, or about three thousand men, go up, and they smite Ai; cause not all the people to labour thither; for they [are] few.’

Cross References

Proverbs 13:4

The soul of the slothful is desiring, and hath not. And the soul of the diligent is made fat.

Proverbs 21:25

The desire of the slothful slayeth him, For his hands have refused to work.

Luke 13:24

‘Be striving to go in through the straight gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to go in, and shall not be able;

Hebrews 4:11

May we be diligent, then, to enter into that rest, that no one in the same example of the unbelief may fall,

Joshua 7:2

And Joshua sendeth men from Jericho to Ai, which [is] near Beth-Aven, on the east of Bethel, and speaketh unto them, saying, ‘Go up and spy the land;’ and the men go up and spy Ai,

Joshua 7:4

And there go up of the people thither about three thousand men, and they flee before the men of Ai,

2 Peter 1:10

wherefore, the rather, brethren, be diligent to make stedfast your calling and choice, for these things doing, ye may never stumble,

2 Peter 1:5

And this same also — all diligence having brought in besides, superadd in your faith the worthiness, and in the worthiness the knowledge,