Joshua 7:5
The men of Ai struck about thirty-six men of them. They chased them from before the gate even to Shebarim, and struck them at the descent. The hearts of the people melted, and became like water.Joshua 7:5 · WEB
This verse in other languages
- ગુજરાતી — યહોશુઆ ૭:૫
- અને આયના માણસોએ તેઓમાંથી આશરે છત્રીસ માણસોને માર્યા, ભાગળ આગળથી શબારીમ સુધી તેઓની પાછળ દોડીને પર્વત ઊતરવાની જગ્યા આગળ તેઓને માર્યા. તેથી લોકોનાં હૃદય ભયભીત થયાં અને તેઓ નાહિંમત થયા.
- हिन्दी — यहोशू ७:५
- तब आई के रहनेवालों ने उनमें से कोई छत्तीस पुरुष मार डाले, और अपने फाटक से शबारीम तक उनका पीछा करके उतराई में उनको मारते गए। तब लोगों का मन पिघलकर जल सा बन गया।
In context
3They returned to Joshua, and said to him, “Don’t let all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and strike Ai. Don’t make all the people to toil there, for there are only a few of them.”
4So about three thousand men of the people went up there, and they fled before the men of Ai.
5The men of Ai struck about thirty-six men of them. They chased them from before the gate even to Shebarim, and struck them at the descent. The hearts of the people melted, and became like water.
6Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before the LORD’s ark until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads.
7Joshua said, “Alas, Lord GOD, why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? I wish that we had been content and lived beyond the Jordan!
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