Shebarim - Rather, perhaps, “the stone quarries.” The smallness of the slaughter among the Israelites indicates that they fled early, probab…

Shebarim —i.e., the crevices, or ravines. A short distance below Ai the road passes the head of steep glens, which open into the p…

And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men
In the pursuit of them, which were but few, but a sufficien…

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.…