Deuteronomy 7:20

20 Moreover, the LORD your God will send the hornet among them until even the survivors who hide from you have perished.

Deuteronomy 7:20 in Other Translations

20 Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.

20 Moreover, the LORD your God will send hornets among them, until those who are left and hide themselves from you are destroyed.

20 And then the LORD your God will send terror to drive out the few survivors still hiding from you!

20 And to top it off, the Hornet. God will unleash the Hornet on them until every survivor-in-hiding is dead.

20 Moreover Jehovah thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves, perish from before thee.

20 The LORD your God will spread panic among them until they all die. There will be no one left--not even those who were hiding from you.

20 The Lord your God will also send the hornet against them until all the survivors and those hiding from you perish.

20 The LORD your God will also send hornets among them. Some of the people who are left alive will hide from you. But even they will die.

Deuteronomy 7:20 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 7:20

Moreover, the Lord thy God will send the hornet among them,
&c.] Not a single one, but several of them, and which may be understood of creatures so called, which resemble wasps, only twice as large, an insect very bold and venomous; see ( Exodus 23:28 ) . Aben Ezra interprets it of the leprosy:

until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed;
such of the Canaanites who escaped the sword of the Israelites, and hid themselves in holes and caverns of the earth; these the hornets would find out and sting them to death, until they were all destroyed. Thus God can make use of small creatures, even insects, to destroy nations the most populous and mighty.

Deuteronomy 7:20 In-Context

18 But do not be afraid of them; remember well what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt.

19 You saw with your own eyes the great trials, the signs and wonders, the mighty hand and outstretched arm, with which the LORD your God brought you out. The LORD your God will do the same to all the peoples you now fear.

20 Moreover, the LORD your God will send the hornet among them until even the survivors who hide from you have perished.

21 Do not be terrified by them, for the LORD your God, who is among you, is a great and awesome God.

22 The LORD your God will drive out those nations before you, little by little. You will not be allowed to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals will multiply around you.

Cross References

• 1. S Exodus 23:28; Joshua 24:12