Joshua 7:3-5

Expanded Bible

³ Later they came back to Joshua and said, “There are ·only a few people [few soldiers] in Ai, so we will not need all our people to defeat them. Send only two or three thousand men to fight. ·There is no need to send [or Don’t tire out] all of our people.” ⁴ So about three thousand men went up to Ai, but ·the people of Ai beat them badly [^Lthey fled from the men of Ai]. ⁵ The people of Ai killed about thirty-six Israelites and then chased the rest from the city gate all the way down to ·the canyon [or the stone quarries; or Shebarim], killing them as they went down the hill. When the Israelites saw this, ·they lost their courage [^Lthe heart of the people melted and became like water].