So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai.
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Interpretation
Achan took some of the spoil of Jericho. The love of the world is that root of bitterness, which of all others is most hardly rooted up.
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This thought runs through Joshua 7:1-5.
Glossary
- Ai Place
- Biblical settlement. Modern identification: Et Tell.