Joshua 7:4
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There went up therefore three thousand fighting men: who immediately turned their backs,

Leviticus 26:17
I will set my face against you, and you shall fall down before your enemies: and shall be made subject to them that hate you. You shall flee when no man pursueth you.

Deuteronomy 28:25
The Lord make thee to fall down before thy enemies, one way mayst thou go out against them, and flee seven ways, and be scattered throughout all the kingdoms of the earth.

Joshua 7:3
And returning, they said to him: Let not all the people go up, but let two or three thousand men go, and destroy the city: why should all the people be troubled in vain, against enemies that are very few?

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There went up therefore three thousand fighting men: who immediately turned their backs,

fled

Leviticus 26:17 I will set my face against you, and you shall fall down before your enemies: and shall be made subject to them that hate you. You shall flee when no man pursueth you.

Deuteronomy 28:25 The Lord make thee to fall down before thy enemies, one way mayst thou go out against them, and flee seven ways, and be scattered throughout all the kingdoms of the earth.

Deuteronomy 32:30 How should one pursue after a thousand, and two chase ten thousand? Was it not, because their God had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up?

Isaiah 30:17 A thousand men shall flee for fear of one: and for fear of five shall you flee, till you be left as the mast of ship on the top of a mountain, and as an ensign upon a hill.

Isaiah 59:2 But your iniquities have divided between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you that he should not hear.

Context
Israel Defeated at Ai
3And returning, they said to him: Let not all the people go up, but let two or three thousand men go, and destroy the city: why should all the people be troubled in vain, against enemies that are very few? 4There went up therefore three thousand fighting men: who immediately turned their backs,5And were defeated by the men of the city of Hai, and there fell of them six and thirty men: and the enemies pursued them from the gate as far as Sabarim, and they slew them as they fled by the descent: and the heart of the people was struck with fear, and melted like water.…
Lexicon
So about three
כִּשְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת (kiš·lō·šeṯ)
Preposition-k | Number - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 7969: Three, third, thrice

thousand
אֲלָפִ֖ים (’ă·lā·p̄îm)
Number - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 505: A thousand

men
אִ֑ישׁ (’îš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 376: A man as an individual, a male person

went up,
וַיַּעֲל֤וּ (way·ya·‘ă·lū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5927: To ascend, in, actively

but they were put to flight
וַיָּנֻ֕סוּ (way·yā·nu·sū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5127: To flit, vanish away

before
לִפְנֵ֖י (lip̄·nê)
Preposition-l | Noun - common plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 6440: The face

the men
אַנְשֵׁ֥י (’an·šê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 376: A man as an individual, a male person

of Ai.
הָעָֽי׃ (hā·‘āy)
Article | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5857: Ai -- a Canaanite city


Additional Translations
So about three thousand men went up, but they were put to flight before the men of Ai.So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai.

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

And there went up about three thousand men, and they fled from before the men of Gai.

And there went up thither of the people about three thousand men, but they fled before the men of Ai.

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

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

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

And there go up of the people thither about three thousand men, and they flee before the men of Ai,
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