Translations
They returned to Joshua and said, 'Don't send the whole army — two or three thousand men will be enough to strike Ai. Don't exhaust the whole nation over it; the city is small.'
They returned to Yehoshua and said to him, 'Do not send up all the people — let about two or three thousand men go up and strike the Ai. Do not weary all the people with this, for they are few.'
And they returned to Joshua, and said unto him, Let not all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and smite Ai; and make not all the people to labour thither; for they are but few.
On returning to Joshua, they reported, “There is no need to send all the people; two or three thousand men are enough to go up and attack Ai. Since the people of Ai are so few, you need not wear out all our people there.”

