Study Desk

Now Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near ^(C1)Beth-aven, east of Bethel, and said to them, "^(F1)Go up and spy out the land." So the men went up and spied out Ai.

Then they returned to Joshua and said to him, "Do not have all the people go up; have only about two or three thousand men go up and attack Ai; do not trouble all the people there, for they are few."

So about three thousand men from the people went up there, but ^(C1)they fled ^(F1)from the men of Ai.

And the men of Ai struck and killed about thirty-six of their men, and pursued them ^(F1)from the gate as far as Shebarim and struck them on the mountainside; and the ^(C1)hearts of the people melted and became like water.