Deuteronomy Chapter 7 verse 20 Holy Bible

ASV Deuteronomy 7:20

Moreover Jehovah thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves, perish from before thee.
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BBE Deuteronomy 7:20

And the Lord will send a hornet among them, till all the rest who have kept themselves safe from you in secret places have been cut off.
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DARBY Deuteronomy 7:20

Moreover, Jehovah thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and they that hide themselves from thee, are destroyed.
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KJV Deuteronomy 7:20

Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.
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WBT Deuteronomy 7:20

Moreover, the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, shall be destroyed.
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WEB Deuteronomy 7:20

Moreover Yahweh your God will send the hornet among them, until those who are left, and hide themselves, perish from before you.
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YLT Deuteronomy 7:20

`And also the locust doth Jehovah thy God send among them, till the destruction of those who are left, and of those who are hidden from thy presence;
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 20. - Hornet (cf. Exodus 23:28). Instances are on record of armies being obliged to give way before swarms of insects by which they were attacked (as in the case of Julian, who was compelled by a host of flies and gnats to change his route in retreating from Parthia; Atom. Marcell., 24, 8); but it may be doubted if the statement here is to be understood literally, and not rather figuratively, as expressive of many and varied evils with which the fugitive Canaanites were to be visited until they were extirpated (cf. Joshua 24:12, compared with Joshua 10:22-27).

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(20) The hornet.--To be understood literally. (See on Deuteronomy 1:44, and Joshua 24:12.) The "land flowing with (milk and) honey" may well have swarmed with bees and hornets.