Joshua 9:24

And, answering Joshua, they said, Because it came to the ears of your servants that the Lord your God had given orders to his servant Moses to give you all this land, and to send destruction on all the people living in it, because of you; so, fearing greatly for our lives because of you, we have done this.

Deuteronomy 7:1-2

When the Lord your God takes you into the land where you are going, which is to be your heritage, and has sent out the nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you;

Exodus 15:14-16

Hearing of you the peoples were shaking in fear: the people of Philistia were gripped with pain.

Exodus 23:31-33

I will let the limits of your land be from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the waste land to the river Euphrates: for I will give the people of those lands into your power; and you will send them out before you.

Numbers 33:51-52

Say to the children of Israel, When you go over Jordan into the land of Canaan,

Numbers 33:55-56

But if you are slow in driving out the people of the land, then those of them who are still there will be like pin-points in your eyes and like thorns in your sides, troubling you in the land where you are living.

Deuteronomy 7:23-24

But the Lord your God will give them up into your hands, overpowering them till their destruction is complete.

Deuteronomy 20:15-17

So you are to do to all the towns far away, which are not the towns of these nations.

Joshua 9:9

And they said to him, Your servants have come from a very far country, because of the name of the Lord your God: for the story of his great name, and of all he did in Egypt has come to our ears,

Job 2:4

And the Satan said in answer to the Lord, Skin for skin, all a man has he will give for his life.

Matthew 10:28

And have no fear of those who put to death the body, but are not able to put to death the soul. But have fear of him who has power to give soul and body to destruction in hell.

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Summary

And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told thy servants, how that the LORD thy God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we were sore afraid of our lives because of you, and have done this thing.

Bible References

The lord

Exodus 23:31
I will let the limits of your land be from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the waste land to the river Euphrates: for I will give the people of those lands into your power; and you will send them out before you.
Numbers 33:51
Say to the children of Israel, When you go over Jordan into the land of Canaan,
Deuteronomy 7:1
When the Lord your God takes you into the land where you are going, which is to be your heritage, and has sent out the nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you;
Deuteronomy 20:15
So you are to do to all the towns far away, which are not the towns of these nations.

We were sore

Exodus 15:14
Hearing of you the peoples were shaking in fear: the people of Philistia were gripped with pain.
Job 2:4
And the Satan said in answer to the Lord, Skin for skin, all a man has he will give for his life.
Matthew 10:28
And have no fear of those who put to death the body, but are not able to put to death the soul. But have fear of him who has power to give soul and body to destruction in hell.

General references

Numbers 22:3
And in Moab there was great fear of the people, because their numbers were so great: and the feeling of Moab was bitter against the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 2:25
From now on I will put the fear of you in all peoples under heaven, who, hearing of you, will be shaking with fear and grief of heart because of you.
Deuteronomy 20:16
But in the towns of these peoples whose land the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, let no living thing be kept from death:

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