28 Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our hearts ^qmelt, saying, “The people are greater and taller than we. ^rThe cities are great and fortified up to heaven. And besides, we have seen the sons of the ^sAnakim there.”’

8 And the officers shall speak further to the people, and say, ^q‘Is there any man who is fearful and fainthearted? Let him go back to his house, lest he make the heart of his fellows melt like his own.’

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

The New Generation Circumcised

1 As soon as all the kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan to the west, and all the kings of the Canaanites ^owho were by the sea, ^pheard that the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan for the people of Israel until they had crossed over, ^qtheir hearts melted and there was no longer any spirit in them because of the people of Israel.

8 But ^omy brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; yet I ^pwholly followed the Lord my God.