Joshua 7:2-4

Revised Geneva Translation

² And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai (which is beside Beth Aven), on the East side of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying, “Go up and view the country.” And the men went up and viewed Ai,

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.