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.
Ver. 3. Let not all the people go up.] But better they had, as it happened, in some respects. God's holy hand was in it, and his holy will must be done and suffered.