A thousand men will flee in terror from the face of one, and you will flee in terror from the face of five, until you who have been left behind are like the mast of a ship at the top of a mountain, or like a sign on a hill.
Joshua 7:4 - Catholic Public Domain Version Therefore, they went up with three thousand fighters. And they promptly turned their backs, Matoleo zaidiKing 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. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version There went up therefore three thousand fighting men: who immediately turned their backs, English Standard Version 2016 So about three thousand men went up there from the people. And they fled before the men of Ai, |
A thousand men will flee in terror from the face of one, and you will flee in terror from the face of five, until you who have been left behind are like the mast of a ship at the top of a mountain, or like a sign on a hill.
But your iniquities have made a division between you and your God, and your sins have concealed his face from you, so that he would not hear.
I will set my face against you, and you will fall down before your enemies, and you will be subjugated to those who hate you. You will flee, though no one pursues.
May the Lord hand you over to fall before your enemies. May you go forth against them by one way, and flee by seven ways, and may you be scattered across all the kingdoms of the earth.
How is it that one pursues a thousand, and two chases ten thousand? Is it not because their God has sold them, and because the Lord has enclosed them?
And returning, they said to him: "Let not the entire people go up. Instead, let two or three thousand men go out and destroy the city. Why should all the people be troubled without cause against enemies that are so very few?"