terrour of God] (Exodus 23:27. Joshua 2:9. 11. 1 Samuel 11:7. 2 Chron. 17. 10.) Jacob was afraid of the Canaanites, that they being many and his people few, they would destroy him, and his house, Chap. 34. 30. God secures him from this danger by making them to feare, of whom he was afraid. So he exerciseth a power not onely over the hands, but over the hearts of men, to make them timorous who otherwise might be most confident, and on the contrary to give them most courage who have most cause to feare.