Joshua 9:24

And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told your servants, how that the LORD your 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 very much afraid for our lives because of you, and have done this thing.

Deuteronomy 7:1-2

When the LORD your God shall bring you into the land to which you go to possess it, and has cast out many 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 mightier than you;

Exodus 15:14-16

The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Philistia.

Exodus 23:31-33

And I will set your bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and you shall drive them out before you.

Numbers 33:51-52

Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When you have passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan;

Numbers 33:55-56

But if you will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those whom you let remain of them shall be barbs in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall trouble you in the land wherein you dwell.

Deuteronomy 7:23-24

But the LORD your God shall deliver them unto you, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they are destroyed.

Deuteronomy 20:15-17

Thus shall you do unto all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.

Joshua 9:9

And they said unto him, From a very far country your servants have come because of the name of the LORD your God: for we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt,

Job 2:4

And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man has will he give for his life.

Matthew 10:28

And fear not them who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him who is able to 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 bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and you shall drive them out before you.
Numbers 33:51
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When you have passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan;
Deuteronomy 7:1
When the LORD your God shall bring you into the land to which you go to possess it, and has cast out many 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 mightier than you;
Deuteronomy 20:15
Thus shall you do unto all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.

We were sore

Exodus 15:14
The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Philistia.
Job 2:4
And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man has will he give for his life.
Matthew 10:28
And fear not them who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

General references

Numbers 22:3
And Moab was greatly afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 2:25
This day will I begin to put the dread of you and the fear of you upon the nations that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear reports of you, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of you.
Deuteronomy 20:16
But of the cities of these people, which the LORD your God does give you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes: