Joshua 7:3
Joshua chapter 7 · verse 3 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And they returned to Joshua, and said unto him, Let not all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and smite Ai; make not all the people to toil thither; for they are but few.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And they returned to Joshua, and said unto him, Let not all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and smite Ai; and make not all the people to labour thither; for they are but few.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And they returned to Joshua, and said unto him, Let not all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and smite Ai; make not all the people to toil thither; for they are but few.
Context
v.2And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth-aven, on the east side of Beth-el, and spake unto them, saying, Go up and spy out the land. And the men went up and spied out Ai.
v.3This passage
v.4So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Hebrews 4:11
Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, that no man fall after the same example of disobedience.
- Proverbs 13:4
The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing; But the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
- Luke 13:24
Strive to enter in by the narrow door: for many, I say unto you, shall seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
- Proverbs 21:25
The desire of the sluggard killeth him; For his hands refuse to labor.
- Hebrews 6:11
And we desire that each one of you may show the same diligence unto the fulness of hope even to the end:
- 2 Peter 1:5
Yea, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply virtue; and in your virtue knowledge;