Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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 thy border from the Red Sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River. For I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and thou shall drive them out before thee.
Numbers 33:51
Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, When ye pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
Deuteronomy 7:1
When LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land where thou go to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before thee, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and
Deuteronomy 20:15
Thus thou shall do to all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

We were sore

Exodus 15:14
The peoples have heard, they tremble. Pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia.
Job 2:4
And Satan answered LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man has he will give for his life.
Matthew 10:28
And be not afraid of those 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 exceedingly afraid of the people, because they were many. And Moab was distressed because of the sons of Israel.
Deuteronomy 2:25
This day I will begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the peoples who are under the whole heaven, who shall hear the report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.
Deuteronomy 20:16
But of the cities of these peoples, that LORD thy God gives thee for an inheritance, thou shall save alive nothing that breathes,