Joshua 7:4 KJV — MannaFest

Joshua 7:4

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

KJV

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ASV

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 went up, but they fled 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,

DBT

And there went up thither of the people about three thousand men, but they fled before the men of Ai.

About this book

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Joshua — The entry narrative — Israel crosses the Jordan, takes the Land through three conquest campaigns, and renews covenant at Shechem. The hinge between Torah's promises and the historical record of those promises unfolding.

Author: Joshua himself at least in part (24:26 — ‘Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God’); later editorial framing traditional
Date: Events c. 1400 BC (early) or 1230 BC (late); compilation across the early-monarchy period

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6 verses on the floor

Deuteronomy 28:25
The Lord shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
Leviticus 26:17
And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.
Deuteronomy 32:30
How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up?
Isaiah 30:17
One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill.
Isaiah 59:2
But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

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Psalms 89:43

Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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He, as a public person, interested himself more than any other in this public loss, and is therein an example to princes and great men, and teaches them to lay much to heart the calamities that befal their people: he is also a type of Christ, to whom the blood of his subjects is precious, Ps. lxxii.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

JOS 7:4DEU 32:30 LEV 26:8
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
JOS 7:4DEU 32:30 JOS 23:10
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
JOS 7:4ISA 59:2 PRO 15:29
JOS 7:4ISA 59:2 JER 5:25
JOS 7:4ISA 59:2 MIC 3:4
JOS 7:4ISA 59:2 ISA 1:15
JOS 7:4DEU 32:30 ISA 30:17
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
JOS 7:4ISA 59:2 DEU 31:17-18

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