Joshua 7:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So about three thousand of the people went up, and were sent in flight by the men of Ai.

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  • Lev 26:17 : 17 And my face will be turned from you, and you will be broken before those who are against you, and your haters will become your rulers, and you will go in flight when no man comes after you.
  • Deut 28:25 : 25 The Lord will let you be overcome by your haters: you will go out against them one way, and you will go in flight before them seven ways: you will be the cause of fear among all the kingdoms of the earth.
  • Deut 32:30 : 30 How would it be possible for one to overcome a thousand, and two to send ten thousand in flight, if their rock had not let them go, if the Lord had not given them up?
  • Isa 30:17 : 17 A thousand will go in fear before one; even before five you will go in flight: till you are like a pillar by itself on the top of a mountain, and like a flag on a hill.
  • Isa 59:2 : 2 But your sins have come between you and your God, and by your evil doings his face has been veiled from you, so that he will give you no answer.

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  • Josh 7:1-3
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    90%

    1 But the children of Israel did wrong about the cursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the family of Judah, took of the cursed thing, moving the Lord to wrath against the children of Israel.

    2 Now Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is by the side of Beth-aven, on the east side of Beth-el, and said to them, Go up and make a search through the land. And the men went up and saw how Ai was placed.

    3 Then they came back to Joshua and said to him, Do not send all the people up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and make an attack on Ai; there is no need for all the people to be tired with the journey there, for it is only a small town.

  • Josh 8:1-6
    6 verses
    82%

    1 Then the Lord said to Joshua, Have no fear and do not be troubled: take with you all the fighting-men and go up against Ai: for I have given into your hands the king of Ai and his people and his town and his land:

    2 And you are to do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king: but their goods and their cattle you may take for yourselves: let a secret force be stationed to make a surprise attack on the town from the back.

    3 So Joshua and the fighting-men got ready to go up against Ai; and Joshua took thirty thousand men of war, and sent them out by night.

    4 And he gave them their orders, saying, Go and take up your position secretly at the back of the town: do not go very far away, and let all of you be ready:

    5 And I and all the people with me will come near the town, and when they come out against us as they did before, we will go in flight from them;

    6 And they will come out after us, till we have got them away from the town; for they will say, They have gone in flight from us as before; so we will go in flight before them;

  • Josh 7:5
    81%

    5 The men of Ai put to death about thirty-six of them, driving them from before the town as far as the stoneworks, and overcoming them on the way down: and the hearts of the people became like water.

  • Josh 8:9-17
    9 verses
    77%

    9 So Joshua sent them out: and they took up a secret position between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua kept with the people that night.

    10 And early in the morning Joshua got up, and put the people in order, and he and the chiefs of Israel went up before the people to Ai.

    11 And all the fighting-men who were with him went up and came near the town, and took up a position on the north side of Ai facing the town, with a valley between him and the town.

    12 And taking about five thousand men, he put them in position for a surprise attack on the west side of Ai, between Beth-el and Ai.

    13 So all the people were in their places, the army on the north side of the town and the secret force on the west; and that night Joshua went down into the valley.

    14 Now when the king of Ai saw it, he got up quickly and went out to war against Israel, he and all his people, to the slope going down to the valley; but he had no idea that a secret force was waiting at the back of the town.

    15 Then Joshua and all Israel, acting as if they were overcome before them, went in flight by way of the waste land.

    16 And all the people in Ai came together to go after them; and they went after Joshua, moving away from the town.

    17 There was not a man in Ai and Beth-el who did not go out after Israel; and the town was open and unwatched while they went after Israel.

  • Josh 8:19-26
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    75%

    19 Then the secret force came quickly from their place, and running forward when they saw his hand stretched out, went into the town and took it, and put fire to it straight away.

    20 Then the men of Ai, looking back, saw the smoke of the town going up to heaven, and were unable to go this way or that: and the people who had gone in flight to the waste land were turned back on those who were coming after them.

    21 And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the town had been taken by the surprise attack, and that the smoke of the town had gone up, turning round they overcame the men of Ai.

    22 Then the other force came out of the town against them, so that they were being attacked on this side and on that: and Israel overcame them and let not one of them get away with his life.

    23 But the king of Ai they made prisoner, and took him to Joshua.

    24 Then, after the destruction of all the people of Ai in the field and in the waste land where they went after them, and when all the people had been put to death without mercy, all Israel went back to Ai, and put to death all who were in it without mercy.

    25 On that day twelve thousand were put to death, men and women, all the people of Ai.

    26 For Joshua did not take back his hand with the outstretched spear till the destruction of the people of Ai was complete.

  • Josh 4:13
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    13 About forty thousand armed for war went over before the Lord to the fight, to the lowlands of Jericho.

  • Judg 7:3
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    3 So now, let it be given out to the people that anyone who is shaking with fear is to go back from Mount Galud. So twenty-two thousand of the people went back, but there were still ten thousand.

  • Neh 7:32
    72%

    32 The men of Beth-el and Ai, a hundred and twenty-three.

  • Ezra 2:28
    70%

    28 The men of Beth-el and Ai, two hundred and twenty-three.

  • Josh 9:3
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    3 And the men of Gibeon, hearing what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,

  • Judg 7:22-23
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    70%

    22 And the three hundred gave a loud note on their horns, and every man's sword was turned by the Lord against his brother all through the army; and the army went in flight as far as Beth-shittah in the direction of Zeredah, to the edge of Abel-meholah by Tabbath.

    23 And the men of Israel came together from Naphtali and from Asher and all Manasseh, and went after Midian.

  • Exod 32:28
    70%

    28 And the sons of Levi did as Moses said; and about three thousand of the people were put to death that day.

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    7 So Joshua went up from Gilgal with all his army and all his men of war.

  • Josh 3:2
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    2 And at the end of three days, the men in authority over the people went through the tents,

  • 1 Sam 11:8
    69%

    8 And he had them numbered in Bezek: the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.

  • Judg 7:7-8
    2 verses
    69%

    7 And the Lord said to Gideon, By those three hundred who were drinking with their tongues I will give you salvation and give the Midianites into your hands; let the rest of the people go away, every man to his place.

    8 So they took the vessels of the people, and their horns from their hands, and he sent them away, every man to his tent, keeping only the three hundred; and the tents of Midian were lower down in the valley.

  • Judg 20:17
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    17 And the men of Israel, other than Benjamin, were four hundred thousand in number, all armed with swords; they were all men of war.

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    2 And the Philistines put their forces in order against Israel, and the fighting was hard, and Israel was overcome by the Philistines, who put to the sword about four thousand of their army in the field.

  • Josh 11:7
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    7 So Joshua and all the men of war with him came against them suddenly at the waters of Merom, and made an attack on them.

  • Judg 20:2
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    2 And the chiefs of the people, out of all the tribes of Israel, took their places in the meeting of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen armed with swords.

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    7 And he said to the people, Go forward, circling the town, and let the armed men go before the ark of the Lord.