Genesis 35:5

35:5 and they started on their journey. ¹  The surrounding cities were afraid of God, ²  and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.

Deuteronomy 28:65-67

28:65 Among those nations you will have no rest nor will there be a place of peaceful rest for the soles of your feet, for there the Lord will give you an anxious heart, failing eyesight, and a spirit of despair. 28:66 Your life will hang in doubt before you; you will be terrified by night and day and will have no certainty of surviving from one day to the next. ³  28:67 In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ And in the evening you will say, ‘I wish it were morning!’ because of the things you will fear and the things you will see.

Joshua 2:9-11

2:9 She said to the men, “I know the Lord is handing this land over to you. ⁴  We are absolutely terrified of you, ⁵  and all who live in the land are cringing before ⁶  you. ⁷  2:10 For we heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you left Egypt and how you annihilated the two Amorite kings, Sihon and Og, on the other side of the Jordan. ⁸  2:11 When we heard the news we lost our courage and no one could even breathe for fear of you. ⁹  For the Lord your God is God in heaven above and on earth below!

Joshua 5:1

5:1 When all the Amorite kings on the west side of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings along the seacoast heard how the Lord had dried up the water of the Jordan before the Israelites while they ¹⁰  crossed, they lost their courage and could not even breathe for fear of the Israelites. ¹¹ 

Joshua 5:1

5:1 When all the Amorite kings on the west side of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings along the seacoast heard how the Lord had dried up the water of the Jordan before the Israelites while they ¹²  crossed, they lost their courage and could not even breathe for fear of the Israelites. ¹³ 

Joshua 17:1-2

17:1 The tribe of Manasseh, Joseph’s firstborn son, was also allotted land. ¹⁴  The descendants of Makir, Manasseh’s firstborn and the father of Gilead, received land, for they were warriors. ¹⁵  They were assigned Gilead and Bashan. ¹⁶  17:2 The rest of Manasseh’s descendants were also assigned land ¹⁷  by their clans, including the descendants of Abiezer, Helek, Asriel, Shechem, Hepher, and Shemida. These are the male descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph by their clans.

Joshua 7:6-7

7:6 Joshua tore his clothes; ¹⁸  he and the leaders ¹⁹  of Israel lay face down on the ground before the ark of the Lord until evening ²⁰  and threw dirt on their heads. ²¹  7:7 Joshua prayed, ²²  “O, Master, Lord! Why did you bring these people across the Jordan to hand us over to the Amorites so they could destroy us?

Joshua 7:2

7:2 Joshua sent men from Jericho ²³  to Ai (which is located near Beth Aven, east of Bethel ²⁴ ) and instructed them, “Go up and spy on the land.” So the men went up and spied on Ai.

Joshua 14:14

14:14 So Hebron remains the assigned land of Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this very day ²⁵  because he remained loyal to the Lord God of Israel.

Job 15:21-22

15:21 Terrifying sounds fill ²⁶  his ears;

in a time of peace marauders ²⁷  attack him.

15:22 He does not expect ²⁸  to escape from darkness; ²⁹ 

he is marked for the sword; ³⁰ 

Isaiah 7:2

7:2 It was reported to the family ³¹  of David, “Syria has allied with ³²  Ephraim.” They and their people were emotionally shaken, just as the trees of the forest shake before the wind. ³³ 

Isaiah 7:4

7:4 Tell him, ‘Make sure you stay calm! ³⁴  Don’t be afraid! Don’t be intimidated ³⁵  by these two stubs of smoking logs, ³⁶  or by the raging anger of Rezin, Syria, and the son of Remaliah.

Ezekiel 21:7

21:7 When they ask you, ‘Why are you groaning?’ you will reply, ‘Because of the report that has come. Every heart will melt with fear and every hand will be limp; everyone ³⁷  will faint and every knee will be wet with urine.’ ³⁸  Pay attention – it is coming and it will happen, declares the sovereign Lord.”

Ezekiel 21:12

21:12 Cry out and moan, son of man,

for it is wielded against my people;

against all the princes of Israel.

They are delivered up to the sword, along with my people.

Therefore, strike your thigh. ³⁹ 

Ezekiel 21:15

21:15 So hearts melt with fear and many stumble.

At all their gates I have stationed the sword for slaughter.

Ah! It is made to flash, it is drawn for slaughter!

[35:5]  ¹ tn Heb “and they journeyed.”

[35:5]  ² tn Heb “and the fear of God was upon the cities which were round about them.” The expression “fear of God” apparently refers (1) to a fear of God (objective genitive; God is the object of their fear). (2) But it could mean “fear from God,” that is, fear which God placed in them (cf. NRSV “a terror from God”). Another option (3) is that the divine name is used as a superlative here, referring to “tremendous fear” (cf. NEB “were panic-stricken”; NASB “a great terror”).

[28:66]  ³ tn Heb “you will not be confident in your life.” The phrase “from one day to the next” is implied by the following verse.

[2:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “has given the land to you.” Rahab’s statement uses the Hebrew perfect, suggesting certitude.

[2:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “terror of you has fallen upon us.”

[2:9]  ⁶ tn Or “melting away because of.”

[2:9]  ⁷ tn Both of these statements are actually subordinated to “I know” in the Hebrew text, which reads, “I know that the Lord…and that terror of you…and that all the inhabitants….”

[2:10]  ⁸ tn Heb “and what you did to the two Amorite kings who were beyond the Jordan, Sihon and Og, how you annihilated them.”

[2:11]  ⁹ tn Heb “And we heard and our heart[s] melted and there remained no longer breath in a man because of you.”

[5:1]  ¹⁰ tc Another textual tradition has, “while we crossed.”

[5:1]  ¹¹ tn Heb “their heart[s] melted and there was no longer in them breathe because of the sons of Israel.”

[5:1]  ¹² tc Another textual tradition has, “while we crossed.”

[5:1]  ¹³ tn Heb “their heart[s] melted and there was no longer in them breathe because of the sons of Israel.”

[17:1]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and the lot belonged to the tribe of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph.”

[17:1]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “to Makir, the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, for he was a man of war.”

[17:1]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “Gilead and Bashan belonged to him.”

[17:2]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “and it belonged to the sons of Manasseh who remained.”

[7:6]  ¹⁸ sn Tearing one’s clothes was an outward expression of extreme sorrow (see Gen 37:34; 44:13).

[7:6]  ¹⁹ tn Or “elders.”

[7:6]  ²⁰ tn Heb “and fell on his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord until evening, he and the elders of Israel.”

[7:6]  ²¹ sn Throwing dirt on one’s head was an outward expression of extreme sorrow (see Lam 2:10; Ezek 27:30).

[7:7]  ²² tn Heb “said.”

[7:2]  ²³ map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[7:2]  ²⁴ map For the location of Bethel see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[14:14]  ²⁵ tn Heb “Therefore Hebron belongs to Caleb son of Jephunneh for an inheritance to this day.”

[15:21]  ²⁶ tn The word “fill” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation.

[15:21]  ²⁷ tn The word שׁוֹדֵד (shoded) means “a robber; a plunderer” (see Job 12:6). With the verb bo’ the sentence means that the robber pounces on or comes against him (see GKC 373 §118.f). H. H. Rowley observes that the text does not say that he is under attack, but that the sound of fears is in his ears, i.e., that he is terrified by thoughts of this.

[15:22]  ²⁸ tn This is the meaning of the Hiphil imperfect negated: “he does not believe” or “he has no confidence.” It is followed by the infinitive construct functioning as the direct object – he does not expect to return (to escape) from darkness.

[15:22]  ²⁹ sn In the context of these arguments, “darkness” probably refers to calamity, and so the wicked can expect a calamity that is final.

[15:22]  ³⁰ tn Heb “he is watched [or waited for] by the sword.” G. R. Driver reads it, “he is marked down for the sword” (“Problems in the Hebrew text of Job,” VTSup 3 [1955]: 78). Ewald suggested “laid up for the sword.” Ball has “looks for the sword.” The MT has a passive participle from צָפָה (tsafah, “to observe, watch”) which can be retained in the text; the meaning of the form can then be understood as the result of the inspection (E. Dhorme, Job, 217).

[7:2]  ³¹ tn Heb “house.” In this context the “house of David” includes King Ahaz, his family, and the royal court. See also Jer 21:12; Zech 12:7-8, 10, 12, for a similar use of the phrase.

[7:2]  ³² tn Heb “rests upon.” Most understand the verb as נוּחַ (nuakh, “rest”), but HALOT 685 s.v. II נחה proposes that this is a hapax legomenon which means “stand by.”

[7:2]  ³³ tn Heb “and his heart shook and the heart of his people shook, like the shaking of the trees of the forest before the wind.” The singular pronoun “his” is collective, referring to the Davidic house/family. לֵבָב (levav, “heart”) here refers to the seat of the emotions.

[7:4]  ³⁴ tn Heb “guard yourself and be quiet,” but the two verbs should be coordinated.

[7:4]  ³⁵ tn Heb “and let not your heart be weak”; ASV “neither let thy heart be faint.”

[7:4]  ³⁶ sn The derogatory metaphor indicates that the power of Rezin and Pekah is ready to die out.

[21:7]  ³⁷ tn Heb “every spirit will be dim.”

[21:7]  ³⁸ sn This expression depicts in a very vivid way how they will be overcome with fear. See the note on the same phrase in 7:17.

[21:12]  ³⁹ sn This physical action was part of an expression of grief. Cp. Jer. 31:19.