Joshua 9:24

And they answered Joshua and said, Because it was certainly told your servants how Jehovah your God commanded His servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all those who lived in the land from before you; therefore, we were very much afraid of our lives because of you, and have done this thing.

Deuteronomy 7:1-2

When Jehovah your God shall bring you into the land where 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, being afraid. Sorrow shall take hold on the people of Philistia.

Exodus 23:31-33

And I will stretch your bounds from the Red Sea even to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to 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 to the sons of Israel and say to them, When you have passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan,

Numbers 33:55-56

But if you will not drive out the people of the land from before you, then it will be, those of them whom you let remain shall be goads in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall trouble you in the land in which you live.

Deuteronomy 7:23-24

And Jehovah your God shall deliver them to you, and shall destroy them with a mighty ruin until they are destroyed.

Deuteronomy 20:15-17

So you shall do to 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 to him, Your servants have come from a very far country, because of the name of Jehovah your God. For we have heard of His fame and all that He did in Egypt,

Job 2:4

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

Matthew 10:28

And do not fear those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. But 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 stretch your bounds from the Red Sea even to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to 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 to the sons of Israel and say to them, When you have passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan,
Deuteronomy 7:1
When Jehovah your God shall bring you into the land where 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
So you shall do to 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, being afraid. Sorrow shall take hold on the people of Philistia.
Job 2:4
And Satan answered Jehovah and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man has he will give for his life.
Matthew 10:28
And do not fear those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. But rather fear Him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

General references

Numbers 22:3
And Moab was much afraid of the people because they were many. And Moab was distressed because of the sons of Israel.
Deuteronomy 2:25
Today, I will begin to put your dread and your fear upon the nations under the whole heavens; who shall hear report of you, and shall tremble and be in anguish because of you.
Deuteronomy 20:16
But of the cities of these people, which Jehovah your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes.