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

Do not make all the people labor there. —In these words we see, by a sort of side-glance, the (not unnatural) comment of Israel on…

And they returned unto Joshua, and said unto him, let not all the people go up After they had reconnoitred the place, the…

Achan took some of the spoil of Jericho. The love of the world is that root of bitterness which, more than any other, is most difficult to root up.…