4So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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.
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.
But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
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.
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?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)The story of this chapter begins with a but. The Lord was with Joshua, and his fame was noised through all that country , so the foregoing chapter ends, and it left no room to doubt but that he would go on as he had begun conquering and to conquer . He did right, and observed his orders in every thing. But the children of Israel committed a trespass , and so set God against them; and then even Jos…
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