and said to them, "I know that the LORD has given you this land. Everyone in the country is terrified of you.

Every man stood in his place around the camp, and the whole enemy army ran away yelling.

The Lord had made the Syrians hear what sounded like the advance of a large army with horses and chariots, and the Syrians thought that the king of Israel had hired Hittite and Egyptian kings and their armies to attack them.

So that evening the Syrians had fled for their lives, abandoning their tents, horses, and donkeys, and leaving the camp just as it was.

All around them terror is waiting; it follows them at every step.

But then they will be terrified, for God is with those who obey him.

The Philistine soldiers went out on raids from their camp in three groups: one group went toward Ophrah in the territory of Shual,

The Philistines sent a group of soldiers to defend Michmash Pass.

All of Mount Sinai was covered with smoke, because the LORD had come down on it in fire. The smoke went up like the smoke of a furnace, and all the people trembled violently.

You are going to hear the noise of battles close by and the news of battles far away; but do not be troubled. Such things must happen, but they do not mean that the end has come.

Jesus again gave a loud cry and breathed his last.

Then the curtain hanging in the Temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split apart,

When Jacob and his sons started to leave, great fear fell on the people of the nearby towns, and they did not pursue them.

"I will make those of you who are in exile so terrified that the sound of a leaf blowing in the wind will make you run. You will run as if you were being pursued in battle, and you will fall when there is no enemy near you.

You will stumble over one another when no one is chasing you, and you will be unable to fight against any enemy.

When you hear the sound of marching in the treetops, then attack because I will be marching ahead of you to defeat the Philistine army."

He turned pale and was so frightened that his knees began to shake.