⁹ and said to the men, “I know that the Lord has given you the land, ^(A)and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land ^(B)melt away before you.

¹¹ And ^(A)as soon as we heard it, ^(B)our hearts melted, and there was no spirit left in any man because of you, for ^(C)the Lord your God, he is God in the heavens above and on the earth beneath.

²⁴ And they said to Joshua, “Truly ^(A)the Lord has given all the land into our hands. And also, all the inhabitants of the land ^(B)melt away because of us.”

The New Generation Circumcised

5 As soon as all the kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan to the west, 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 for the people of Israel until they had crossed over, their hearts ^(C)melted and ^(D)there was no longer any spirit in them because of the people of Israel.