²⁷ “I will send ^(A)My fear before you, I will ^(B)cause confusion among all the people to whom you come, and will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.

^25 (A)This day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon the nations ^[a]under the whole heaven, who shall hear the report of you, and shall ^(B)tremble and be in anguish because of you.’

⁹ and said to the men: ^(A)“I know that the Lord has given you the land, that ^(B)the terror of you has fallen on us, and that all the inhabitants of the land ^(C)are fainthearted because of you.

The Second Generation Circumcised

5 So it was, when all the kings of the Amorites who were on the west side of the Jordan, and all the kings of the Canaanites ^(A)who were by the sea, ^(B)heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel until ^[a]we had crossed over, that ^[b]their heart melted; ^(C)and there was no spirit in them any longer because of the children of Israel.

²⁴ So they answered Joshua and said, “Because your servants were clearly told that the Lord your God ^(A)commanded His servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you; therefore ^(B)we were very much afraid for our lives because of you, and have done this thing.

⁷ So the Philistines were afraid, for they said, “God has come into the camp!” And they said, ^(A)“Woe to us! For such a thing has never happened before.

¹⁷ And in every province and city, wherever the king’s command and decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast ^(A)and a holiday. Then many of the people of the land ^(B)became Jews, because ^(C)fear of the Jews fell upon them.