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 put thy bounds from the sea of sedge, and even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert even to the river: for I will give into your hand those inhabiting the land, and thou drove them out from before thee.
Numbers 33:51
Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When ye are passing over Jordan to the land of Canaan,
Deuteronomy 7:1
When Jehovah thy God shall bring thee to the, land where thou goest there to possess it, and he cast out many nations from before thee, the Hittite and the Girgashite and the Amorite and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite and the Jebusite, seven nations many and strong above thee;
Deuteronomy 20:15
Thus shalt thou do to all the cities greatly far off from thee which are not of the cities of these nations.

We were sore

Exodus 15:14
The peoples heard, and they will be angry: pain took those inhabiting Philistia.
Job 2:4
And the adversary will answer Jehovah and say, Skin for skin, and all which is to a man he will give for his soul.
Matthew 10:28
And fear not from those killing the body, and not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him able to destroy also soul and body in hell.

General references

Numbers 22:3
And Moab will be afraid from before the people greatly, for they were many; and Moab will feel disgust from the face of the sons of Israel.
Deuteronomy 2:25
This day I will begin to give thy fear and thy terror upon the face of the peoples under all the heavens who shall hear thy report; and they trembled and were concerned from thy face.
Deuteronomy 20:16
Only of the cities of these peoples which Jehovah thy God gave to thee an inheritance, thou shalt not preserve alive and breathing: