Quotes About Fear

“The hill country is not enough for us,” they replied, “and all the Canaanites who live in the valley have iron chariots, both in Beth-shean with its towns and in the Valley of Jezreel.”

But in fact we have done this for fear that in the future your descendants might say to ours, ëWhat have you to do with the LORD, the God of Israel?

For the LORD has made the Jordan a border between us and you Reubenites and Gadites. You have no share in the LORD!í So your descendants could cause ours to stop fearing the LORD.

So they waited until they became worried and saw that he had still not opened the doors of the upper room. Then they took the key and opened the doors—and there was their lord lying dead on the floor.

And I said to you: ëI am the LORD your God. You must not fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell.í But you did not obey Me.”

When Gideon realized that it was the angel of the LORD, he said, “Oh no, Lord GOD! I have seen the angel of the LORD face to face!”

But the LORD said to him, “Peace be with you. Do not be afraid, for you will not die.”

So Gideon took ten of his servants and did as the LORD had told him. But because he was too afraid of his fatherís household and the men of the city, he did it by night rather than in the daytime.

Now, therefore, proclaim in the hearing of the people: ëWhoever is fearful and trembling may turn back and leave Mount Gilead.í” So twenty-two thousand of them turned back, but ten thousand remained.

But if you are afraid to do so, then go down to the camp with your servant Purah

Each Israelite took his position around the camp, and the entire Midianite army fled, crying out as they ran.

So he said to Jether, his firstborn, “Get up and kill them.” But the young man did not draw his sword; he was fearful because he was still a youth.

Then Jotham ran away, escaping to Beer, and he lived there for fear of his brother Abimelech.

The leaders of Shechem set up an ambush against Abimelech on the hilltops, and they robbed all who passed by them on the road. So this was reported to Abimelech.

When Zebul the governor of the city heard the words of Gaal son of Ebed, he burned with anger.

When Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, “Look, people are coming down from the mountains!” But Zebul replied, “The shadows of the mountains look like men to you.”

but Abimelech pursued him, and Gaal fled before him. And many Shechemites fell wounded all the way to the entrance of the gate.

When the flame went up from the altar to the sky, the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame. When Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell facedown to the ground.

“We are going to die,” he said to his wife, “for we have seen God!”

So on the fourth day they said to Samsonís wife, “Entice your husband to explain the riddle to us, or we will burn you and your fatherís household to death. Did you invite us here to rob us?”

But they said to him, “We have come down to arrest you and hand you over to the Philistines.” Samson replied, “Swear to me that you will not kill me yourselves.”

The Danites said to him, “Do not raise your voice against us, or angry men will attack you, and you and your family will lose your lives.”

So the Danites went on their way, and Micah turned to go back home, because he saw that they were too strong for him.

But the men would not listen to him. So the Levite took his concubine and sent her outside to them, and they raped her and abused her throughout the night, and at dawn they let her go.