Defeat at Ai (Joshua7)

        children  of Israel.   Now Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth Aven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying, "Go up and spy out the country."  So the men went up and spied out Ai.  And they returned to Joshua and said to him, "Do not let all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and attack Ai.  Do not weary all the people there, for all the people of Ai are few."  So about three thousand men went up there from the people, but they fled before the men of Ai.  The men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men: Israel had sinned, they transgressed the covenant which God had commanded them.