You also have turned back the edge of his sword and have not made him stand in the battle.
Joshua 7:4 - Modern King James Version And about three thousand men of the people went up there. And they fled before the men of Ai. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So about three thousand Israelites went up there, but they fled before the men of Ai. American Standard Version (1901) So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai. Common English Bible So about three thousand men from the people went up in that direction. But they fled from the men of Ai. Catholic Public Domain Version Therefore, they went up with three thousand fighters. And they promptly turned their backs, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version There went up therefore three thousand fighting men: who immediately turned their backs, |
You also have turned back the edge of his sword and have not made him stand in the battle.
One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five you shall flee, until you are left as a pole on the top of a mountain, and as a sign on a hill.
But your iniquities have come between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, from hearing.
And 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.
Jehovah shall cause you to be stricken before your enemies. You shall go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them. And you shall be a trembling to all the kingdoms of the earth.
How shall one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them and Jehovah had shut them up?
And they returned to Joshua and said to him, Let not all the people go up. But let about two or three thousand men go up and strike Ai. Do not make all the people labor there, for they are few.