Joshua 7:4

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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  • Lev 26:17 : 17 I will set my face against you, and you will be struck before your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you; and you will flee when no one pursues you.
  • Deut 28:25 : 25 Yahweh will cause you to be struck before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them, and shall flee seven ways before them: and you shall be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.
  • Deut 32:30 : 30 How should one chase a thousand, Two put ten thousand to flight, Except their Rock had sold them, Yahweh had delivered them up?
  • Isa 30:17 : 17 One thousand [shall flee] at the threat of one; at the threat of five shall you flee: until you be 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 between you and 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
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    90%

    1But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the devoted thing; for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the devoted thing: and the anger of Yahweh was kindled against the children of Israel.

    2Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth Aven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying, Go up and spy out the land. The men went up and spied out Ai.

    3They returned to Joshua, and said to him, Don't let all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and strike Ai; don't make all the people to toil there; for they are but few.

  • Josh 8:1-6
    6 verses
    82%

    1Yahweh said to Joshua, Don't be afraid, neither be dismayed: take all the people of war with you, and arise, go up to Ai; behold, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land;

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

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

    4He commanded them, saying, Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city; don't go very far from the city, but be all ready:

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

    6and they will come out after us, until we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: so we will flee before them;

  • Josh 7:5
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    5The men of Ai struck of them about thirty-six men; and they chased them [from] before the gate even to Shebarim, and struck them at the descent; and the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.

  • Josh 8:9-17
    9 verses
    77%

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

    10Joshua arose up early in the morning, and mustered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.

    11All the people, [even] the [men of] war who were with him, went up, and drew near, and came before the city, and encamped on the north side of Ai: now there was a valley between him and Ai.

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

    13So they set the people, even all the host who was on the north of the city, and their liers-in-wait who were on the west of the city; and Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.

    14It happened, 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 the time appointed, before the Arabah; but he didn't know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.

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

    16All the people who were in the city were called together to pursue after them: and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.

    17There was not a man left in Ai or Beth El, who didn't go out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.

  • Josh 8:19-26
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    75%

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

    20When the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people who fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers.

    21When 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 killed the men of Ai.

    22The others came forth 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 they let none of them remain or escape.

    23The king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.

    24It happened, when Israel had made an end of killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they pursued them, and they were all fallen by the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all Israel returned to Ai, and struck it with the edge of the sword.

    25All that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.

    26For Joshua didn't draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

  • Josh 4:13
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    13about forty thousand ready armed for war passed over before Yahweh to battle, to the plains of Jericho.

  • Judg 7:3
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    3Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return and depart from Mount Gilead. There returned of the people twenty-two thousand; and there remained ten thousand.

  • Neh 7:32
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    32The men of Bethel and Ai, a hundred twenty-three.

  • Ezra 2:28
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    28The men of Bethel and Ai, two hundred twenty-three.

  • Josh 9:3
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    3But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,

  • Judg 7:22-23
    2 verses
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    22They blew the three hundred trumpets, and Yahweh set every man's sword against his fellow, and against all the host; and the host fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath.

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  • Exod 32:28
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    28The sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.

  • Josh 10:7
    70%

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  • Josh 3:2
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    2It happened after three days, that the officers went through the midst of the camp;

  • 1 Sam 11:8
    69%

    8He numbered them in Bezek; and the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.

  • Judg 7:7-8
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    69%

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

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    17The men of Israel, besides Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men who drew sword: all these were men of war.

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    2The Philistines put themselves in array against Israel: and when they joined battle, Israel was struck before the Philistines; and they killed of the army in the field about four thousand men.

  • Josh 11:7
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    2The chiefs of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen who drew sword.

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    7They said to the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and let the armed men pass on before the ark of Yahweh.