I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.
I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people, х 'et (H854) 'eeymaatiy (H367)] - my terror (cf. Genesis 35:5); the consternation I shall produce. And such was the panic struck by the appalling miracles of the exodus into the neighbouring nations, particularly the Canaanites, that they were completely paralyzed-incapable of making any vigorous resistance to the occupation of their land by the Israelites (cf. Exodus 15:14-16; Deuteronomy 2:25; Joshua 2:11). This renewed promise of Yahweh was warrant sufficient to justify the Israelites in taking forcible possession of Canaan, and to show that the expulsion of the then existing inhabitants, whose hopeless degradation outraged humanity, was an act accordant with the justice as well as the goodness of God (see further the note at Joshua 21:43).