Joshua 9:24

They answered Joshua, "Because it was told to your servants for a certainty that the LORD your God had commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you--so we feared greatly for our lives because of you and did this thing.

Deuteronomy 7:1-2

"When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and mightier than yourselves,

Exodus 15:14-16

The peoples have heard; they tremble; pangs have seized the inhabitants of Philistia.

Exodus 23:31-33

And I will set your border from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates, for I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.

Numbers 33:51-52

"Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

Numbers 33:55-56

But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those of them whom you let remain shall be as barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall trouble you in the land where you dwell.

Deuteronomy 7:23-24

But the LORD your God will give them over to you and throw them into great confusion, until they are destroyed.

Deuteronomy 20:15-17

Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not cities of the nations here.

Joshua 9:9

They said to him, "From a very distant country your servants have come, because of the name of the LORD your God. For we have heard a report of him, and all that he did in Egypt,

Job 2:4

Then Satan answered the LORD and said, "Skin for skin! All that a man has he will give for his life.

Matthew 10:28

And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body 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
And I will set your border from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates, for I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.
Numbers 33:51
"Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
Deuteronomy 7:1
"When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and mightier than yourselves,
Deuteronomy 20:15
Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not cities of the nations here.

We were sore

Exodus 15:14
The peoples have heard; they tremble; pangs have seized the inhabitants of Philistia.
Job 2:4
Then Satan answered the LORD and said, "Skin for skin! All that a man has he will give for his life.
Matthew 10:28
And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

General references

Numbers 22:3
And Moab was in great dread of the people, because they were many. Moab was overcome with fear of the people of Israel.
Deuteronomy 2:25
This day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you on the peoples who are under the whole heaven, who shall hear the report of you and shall tremble and be in anguish because of you.'
Deuteronomy 20:16
But in the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes,

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