The Defeat at Ai
Joshua 7:4
In 11 translations
- BSB
- So about three thousand men went up, but they fled before the men of Ai.
- KJV
- So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai.
- WEB
- So about three thousand men of the people went up there, and they fled before the men of Ai.
- ASV
- So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai.
- LSV
- So about three thousand men of the people go up from there, and they flee before the men of Ai,
- YLT
- And there go up of the people thither about three thousand men, and they flee before the men of Ai,
- DBY
- And there went up thither of the people about three thousand men, but they fled before the men of Ai.
- DRC
- There went up therefore three thousand fighting men: who immediately turned their backs,
- GNV
- So there went vp thither of the people about three thousande men, and they fledde before the men of Ai.
- JPS
- So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men; and they fled before the men of Ai.
- LXXE
- And there went up about three thousand men, and they fled from before the men of Gai.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- וַיַּעֲל֤וּ מִן־הָעָם֙ שָׁ֔מָּה כִּשְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת אֲלָפִ֖ים אִ֑ישׁ וַיָּנֻ֕סוּ לִפְנֵ֖י אַנְשֵׁ֥י הָעָֽי׃
- LXX-Br
- Καὶ ἀνέβησαν ὡσεὶ τρισχίλιοι ἄνδρες, καὶ ἔφυγον ἀπὸ προσώπου ἀνδρῶν Γαί.
Who and where
📍 Ai◆ War with Canaanites
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In the reference works topics that cite this verse
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Cross-references most cited first
- Deuteronomy 28:25The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them in one direction but flee from them in seven. You will be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
- Leviticus 26:17And I will set My face against you, so that you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when no one pursues you.
- Deuteronomy 32:30How could one man pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up?
- Isaiah 30:17A thousand will flee at the threat of one; at the threat of five you will all flee, until you are left alone like a pole on a mountaintop, like a banner on a hill.
- Isaiah 59:2But your iniquities have built barriers between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He does not hear.
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