Joshua 7:4

So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai.

They fled before the men of Ai. An unexpected resistance and the loss of 36 of their number diffused a panic, which ended in an ignominious rout.

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⁴ So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai.

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Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Joshua 7:4