Joshua 7:3-5

New International Reader's Version

³ Then they returned to Joshua. They said, “The whole army doesn’t have to go up and attack Ai. Send only two or three thousand men. They can take the city. Don’t make the whole army go up there. Only a few people live in Ai.” ⁴ So only about 3,000 troops went up. But the men of Ai drove them away. ⁵ They chased the Israelites from the city gate all the way to Shebarim. They killed about 36 of them on the way down. So the Israelites were terrified.