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Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling

Jozua 7:3

Tot Jozua teruggekeerd, zeiden zij tot hem: Het ganse volk behoeft niet op te trekken; laten ongeveer twee duizend of drieduizend man optrekken en Ai veroveren. Gij behoeft voor den tocht daarheen het ganse volk niet te vermoeien; want die daar zijn niet talrijk.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Armies;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Sieges;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Achan;   Ai;   Anathema;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Devote, Devoted;   Punishment;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Ai;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Joshua, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ai;   Jericho;   Joshua;   Zimri;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ai, Hai ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Achan;   Ai;   Anathema;   Journeyings of israel from egypt to canaan;   Smith Bible Dictionary - A'i;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Conquest of Canaan;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Joshua, Book of;   Labor;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Ai;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Repentance;  

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
En zij kwamen weder tot Jozua en spraken tot hem: Laat al het volk niet opwaarts trekken, maar omtrent tweeof drieduizend man, dat die opwaarts trekken en Ai veroveren; opdat niet al het volk zich aldaar vermoeie, want zij zijn weinigen.
Staten Vertaling
Daarna keerden zij weder naar Jozua, en zeiden tot hem: Dat het ganse volk niet optrekke, dat er omtrent twee duizend mannen, of omtrent drie duizend mannen optrekken, om Ai te slaan; vermoei daarheen al het volk niet; want zij zijn weinige.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

about two: Heb. about 2,000 men, or about 3,000 men, labour. Proverbs 13:4, Proverbs 21:25, Luke 13:24, Hebrews 4:11, Hebrews 6:11, Hebrews 6:12, 2 Peter 1:5, 2 Peter 1:10

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they returned unto Joshua, and said unto him, let not all the people go up,.... After they had reconnoitred the place, they came back to their general, and gave it as their opinion, that there was no need for the whole army to go up against the city:

but let about two or three thousand men go up and smite Ai; such a number they judged were sufficient to take it:

[and] make not all the people to labour thither; carrying their tents, bearing their armour, and going up hill:

for they [are but] few; the inhabitants of Ai, men and women making but twelve thousand; Joshua 8:25.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The total population of Ai was about twelve thousand Joshua 8:25. It could therefore hardly muster three thousand warriors.


 
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