Quotes about Fear

Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and run it through me, or these uncircumcised men will come and run me through and torture me!” But his armor-bearer was terrified and refused to do it. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it.

So David asked him, “Why were you not afraid to lift your hand to destroy the LORD’s anointed?”

And for fear of Abner, Ish-bosheth did not dare to say another word to him.

That day David feared the LORD and asked, “How can the ark of the LORD ever come to me?”

When all the kings who were subject to Hadadezer saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they made peace with Israel and became subject to them. So the Arameans were afraid to help the Ammonites anymore.

On the seventh day the child died. But David’s servants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “Look, while the child was alive, we spoke to him, and he would not listen to us. So how can we tell him the child is dead? He may even harm himself.”

Now therefore, I have come to present this matter to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid. Your servant thought, ‘I will speak to the king. Perhaps he will grant the request of his maidservant.

I will attack him while he is weak and weary; I will throw him into a panic, and all the people with him will flee; I will strike down only the king

Then even the most valiant soldier with the heart of a lion will melt with fear, because all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man who has valiant men with him.

For the waves of death engulfed me; the torrents of chaos overwhelmed me.

Foreigners cower before me; when they hear me, they obey me.

Foreigners lose heart and come trembling from their strongholds.