Joshua 7:3

go up. go toilingly thither.

men. Hebrew. ish. App-14.

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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.

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Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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