Joshua 7:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Lev 26:17 : 17 And I will set my face against you, and you shall be slain before your enemies: those that hate you shall reign over you; and you shall flee when none pursues you.
  • Deut 28:25 : 25 The LORD shall cause you to be smitten before your enemies: you shall go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shall be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
  • Deut 32:30 : 30 How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had delivered them up?
  • Isa 30:17 : 17 One thousand shall flee at the threat of one; at the threat of five you shall flee: until you are left as a beacon on the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on a hill.
  • Isa 59:2 : 2 But your iniquities have separated you from your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.

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  • Josh 7:1-3
    3 verses
    90%

    1But the children of Israel committed a trespass regarding the accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against the children of Israel.

    2And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Bethaven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying, Go up and view the country. And the men went up and viewed Ai.

    3And they returned to Joshua, and said to him, Do not let all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and strike Ai; and do not make all the people labor there; for they are but few.

  • Josh 8:1-6
    6 verses
    82%

    1And the LORD said to Joshua, Do not fear or be dismayed; take all the people of war with you, and arise, go up to Ai; see, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land.

    2And you shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king, only the spoil and the cattle shall you take for a prey for yourselves; lay an ambush for the city behind it.

    3So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai; and Joshua chose thirty thousand mighty men of valor and sent them away by night.

    4And he commanded them, saying, Behold, you shall lie in wait against the city, even behind the city; do not go very far from the city, but be all ready.

    5And I, and all the people that are with me, will approach the city, and it shall come to pass, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them.

    6(For they will come out after us) until we have drawn them from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first; therefore we will flee before them.

  • Josh 7:5
    81%

    5And the men of Ai struck down about thirty-six men: for they chased them from before the gate even to Shebarim, and struck them down on the descent: so the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.

  • Josh 8:9-17
    9 verses
    77%

    9Joshua therefore sent them forth, and they went to lie in ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai; but Joshua lodged that night among the people.

    10And Joshua rose early in the morning, and numbered the people and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.

    11And all the people, even the people of war who were with him, went up and drew near, and came before the city and camped on the north side of Ai; now there was a valley between them and Ai.

    12And he took about five thousand men and set them to lie in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.

    13And when they had set the people, even all the army that was on the north of the city, and their liers in wait on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.

    14And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hurried and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain; but he did not know that there were liers in ambush against him behind the city.

    15And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.

    16And all the people that were in Ai were called together to pursue after them; and they pursued after Joshua and were drawn away from the city.

    17And there was not a man left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel; and they left the city open and pursued after Israel.

  • Josh 8:19-26
    8 verses
    75%

    19And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand; and they entered into the city and took it and hastened and set the city on fire.

    20And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way; and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.

    21And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again and slew the men of Ai.

    22And the others issued out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side and some on that side; and they struck them so that none of them remained or escaped.

    23And the king of Ai they took alive and brought him to Joshua.

    24And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness where they chased them, and when they were all fallen by the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned to Ai and struck it with the edge of the sword.

    25And so it was, that all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, all the men of Ai.

    26For Joshua did not draw his hand back, with which he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

  • Josh 4:13
    74%

    13About forty thousand prepared for war crossed over before the LORD to the plains of Jericho for battle.

  • Judg 7:3
    73%

    3Now therefore, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from Mount Gilead. And twenty-two thousand of the people returned; and ten thousand remained.

  • Neh 7:32
    72%

    32The men of Bethel and Ai, one hundred twenty-three.

  • Ezra 2:28
    70%

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

  • Josh 9:3
    70%

    3And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,

  • Judg 7:22-23
    2 verses
    70%

    22And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the LORD set every man's sword against his fellow, even throughout the whole army, and the army fled to Beth Shittah in Zererath, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath.

    23And the men of Israel gathered themselves together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after the Midianites.

  • Exod 32:28
    70%

    28The children of Levi did according to the word of Moses, and about three thousand men of the people fell that day.

  • Josh 10:7
    70%

    7So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valor.

  • Josh 3:2
    69%

    2And it came to pass after three days, that the officers went through the camp;

  • 1 Sam 11:8
    69%

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

  • Judg 7:7-8
    2 verses
    69%

    7And the LORD said to Gideon, By the three hundred men who lapped I will save you and deliver the Midianites into your hand; let all the other people go every man to his place.

    8So the people took provisions in their hands, and their trumpets, and he sent all the rest of Israel, every man to his tent, and retained those three hundred men; and the Midianite army was below him in the valley.

  • Judg 20:17
    69%

    17And the men of Israel, besides Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men who drew sword; all these were men of war.

  • 1 Sam 4:2
    69%

    2And the Philistines arranged themselves against Israel, and when they joined battle, Israel was defeated before the Philistines, and they killed about four thousand men of the army in the field.

  • Josh 11:7
    69%

    7So Joshua came, and all the people of war with him, against them by the waters of Merom suddenly; and they attacked them.

  • Judg 20:2
    69%

    2And the leaders of all the people, of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword.

  • Josh 6:7
    68%

    7And he said to the people, Proceed, and surround the city, and let him who is armed go on before the ark of the LORD.