Joshua 7:3
And 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.
KJV
Et reversi dixerunt ei : Non ascendat omnis populus, sed duo vel tria millia virorum pergant, et deleant civitatem : quare omnis populus frustra vexabitur contra hostes paucissimos ?
Vulgate
καὶ ἀνέβησαν οἱ ἄνδρες καὶ κατεσκέψαντο τὴν Γαί, καὶ ἀνέστρεψαν πρὸς Ἰησοῦν καὶ εἶπαν πρὸς αὐτόν Μὴ ἀναβήτω πᾶς ὁ λαός, ἀλλ’ ὡς δισχίλιοι ἢ τρισχίλιοι ἄνδρες ἀναβήτωσαν καὶ ἐκπολιορκησάτωσαν τὴν πόλιν· μὴ ἀναγάγῃς ἐκεῖ τὸν λαὸν πάντα, ὀλίγοι γάρ εἰσιν.
LXX
And 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.
ASV
וַ/יָּשֻׁ֣בוּ אֶל יְהוֹשֻׁ֗עַ וַ/יֹּאמְר֣וּ אֵלָי/ו֮ אַל יַ֣עַל כָּל הָ/עָם֒ כְּ/אַלְפַּ֣יִם אִ֗ישׁ א֚וֹ כִּ/שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת אֲלָפִ֣ים אִ֔ישׁ יַעֲל֖וּ וְ/יַכּ֣וּ אֶת הָ/עָ֑י אַל תְּיַגַּע שָׁ֨מָּ/ה֙ אֶת כָּל הָ/עָ֔ם כִּ֥י מְעַ֖ט הֵֽמָּה
Hebrew
Open in reader with connections →
In this verse
In the original Hebrew
20 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 2Pet 1:5 — And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
- 2Pet 1:10 — Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
- Heb 4:11 — Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
- Heb 6:11 — And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:
- Luke 13:24 — Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
- Prov 13:4 — The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
- Prov 21:25 — The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour.