Joshua 7:4
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai.
American King James Version (AKJV)
So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai.
American Standard Version (ASV)
So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
So about three thousand of the people went up, and were sent in flight by the men of Ai.
Webster's Revision
So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai.
World English Bible
So about three thousand men of the people went up there, and they fled before the men of Ai.
English Revised Version (ERV)
So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai.
Clarke's Joshua 7:4 Bible Commentary
About three thousand men - The spies sent to reconnoitre the place (Joshua 7:3) reported that the town was meanly garrisoned, and that two or three thousand men would be sufficient to take it. These were accordingly sent up, and were repulsed by the Amorites.
Wesley's Joshua 7:4 Bible Commentary
7:4 They fled - Not having courage to strike a stroke, which was a plain evidence that God had forsaken then; and an useful instruction, to shew them what they were when God left them: and that it was God, not their own valour, that gave the Canaanites into their hands.