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Joshua 2:9

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I know: Exodus 18:11; 2 Kings 5:15; Job 19:25; Ecclesiastes 8:12; Hebrews 11:1-2

that the Lord: Genesis 13:14-17, Genesis 15:18-21; Exodus 3:6-8; Deuteronomy 32:8; Psalms 115:16; Jeremiah 27:5; Matthew 20:15

your terror: Genesis 35:5; Exodus 15:15-16, Exodus 23:27; Deuteronomy 2:25, Deuteronomy 11:25, Deuteronomy 28:10; Judges 7:14; 1 Samuel 14:15; 2 Kings 7:6

faint: Heb. melt, Joshua 2:11; 1 Samuel 14:16; 2 Samuel 17:10; Psalms 112:10; Isaiah 19:1; Nahum 2:10

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