Not having their usual courage to strike a stroke, which was a plain evidence that God had forsaken them; and a useful instruction, to show them what weak and inconsiderable creatures they were when God left them; and that it was God, not their own valour, that gave the Canaanites and their land into their hands.
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Joshua 7:4
4 So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai.