Quotes About Fear

Then all the men of his city will stone him to death. So you must purge the evil from among you, and all Israel will hear and be afraid.

how they met you on your journey when you were tired and weary, and they attacked all your stragglers; they had no fear of God.

The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them in one direction but flee from them in seven. You will be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Your corpses will be food for all the birds of the air and beasts of the earth, with no one to scare them away.

You will be driven mad by the sights you see.

If you are not careful to observe all the words of this law which are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name—the LORD your God—

So your life will hang in doubt before you, and you will be afraid night and day, never certain of survival.

In the morning you will say, ëIf only it were evening!í and in the evening you will say, ëIf only it were morning!í—because of the dread in your hearts of the terrifying sights you will see.

Assemble the people—men, women, children, and the foreigners within your gates—so that they may listen and learn to fear the LORD your God and to follow carefully all the words of this law.

Then their children who do not know the law will listen and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as you live in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”

They sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods they had not known, to newly arrived gods, which your fathers did not fear.

Outside, the sword will take their children, and inside, terror will strike the young man and the young woman, the infant and the gray-haired man.

and said to them, “I know that the LORD has given you this land and that the fear of you has fallen on us, so that all who dwell in the land are melting in fear of you.

When we heard this, our hearts melted and everyoneís courage failed because of you, for the LORD your God is God in the heavens above and on the earth below.

“The LORD has surely delivered the entire land into our hands,” they said to Joshua. “Indeed, all who dwell in the land are melting in fear of us.”

He did this so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the LORD is mighty, and so that you may always fear the LORD your God.”

Now when all the Amorite kings west of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings along the coast heard how the LORD had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the Israelites until they had crossed over, their hearts melted and their spirits failed for fear of the Israelites.

And the men of Ai struck down about thirty-six of them, chasing them from the gate as far as the quarries and striking them down on the slopes. So the hearts of the people melted and became like water.

When the Canaanites and all who live in the land hear about this, they will surround us and wipe out our name from the earth. Then what will You do for Your great name?”

When the men of Ai turned and looked back, the smoke of the city was rising into the sky. They could not escape in any direction, and the troops who had fled to the wilderness now became the pursuers.

The Gibeonites answered, “Your servants were told clearly that the LORD your God had commanded His servant Moses to give you all the land and wipe out all its inhabitants before you. So we greatly feared for our lives because of you, and that is why we have done this.

So Adoni-zedek and his people were greatly alarmed, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities; it was larger than Ai, and all its men were mighty.

Now the five kings had fled and hidden in the cave at Makkedah.

Although my brothers who went with me made the hearts of the people melt with fear, I remained loyal to the LORD my God.