And because the midwives feared God, he made ¹  households ²  for them.

From heaven you announced what their punishment would be. ¹  The earth ²  was afraid and silent

But ¹  you are willing to forgive, ²  so that you might ³  be honored. ⁴ 

a God who is honored ¹  in the great angelic assembly, ²  and more awesome than ³  all who surround him?

You are awesome! Yes, you! Who can withstand your intense anger? ¹ 

For the Lord is great and certainly worthy of praise; he is more awesome than all gods. ¹ 

But ¹  the midwives feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them; they let the boys live. ² 

Ish-bosheth ¹  was unable to answer Abner with even a single word because he was afraid of him.

So Ahab summoned Obadiah, who supervised the palace. (Now Obadiah was a very loyal follower of the Lord. ¹ 

For the Lord is great and certainly worthy of praise, he is more awesome than ¹  all gods.

For the very thing I dreaded ¹  has happened ²  to me, and what I feared has come upon me. ³ 

You fear the sword, so the sword I will bring against you,’ declares the sovereign Lord.

Although ¹  Herod ²  wanted to kill John, ³  he feared the crowd because they accepted John as a prophet.

They wanted to arrest him, but they were afraid of the crowds, because the crowds ¹  regarded him as a prophet.

He said, ¹  “In a certain city ²  there was a judge ³  who neither feared God nor respected people. ⁴ 

Those ¹  of Pharaoh’s servants who feared the word of the Lord hurried to bring their ²  servants and livestock into the houses,

The men feared the Lord ¹  greatly, ²  and earnestly vowed ³  to offer lavish sacrifices ⁴  to the Lord. ⁵ 

Make vows to the Lord your God and repay them! Let all those who surround him ¹  bring tribute to the awesome one!

He humbles princes; ¹  the kings of the earth regard him as awesome. ² 

When Israel saw ¹  the great power ²  that the Lord had exercised ³  over the Egyptians, they ⁴  feared the Lord, and they believed in ⁵  the Lord and in his servant Moses. ⁶