Joshua 7:3-5

Revised Geneva Translation

³ and returned to Joshua, and said to him, “Do not let all the people go up. Let about two or three thousand men go up and strike Ai; and do not make all the people labor there, for they are few.”

⁴ So, about three thousand men of the people went up there. And they fled before the men of Ai.

⁵ And the men of Ai struck thirty six of their men; for they chased them from before the gate to Shebarim and struck them as they went down. Therefore the hearts of the people melted away like water.