What does Deuteronomy 7:20 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed."
3. THE POSSESSION OF THE LAND AND THEIR SEPARATION CHAPTER 7 _ 1. The command to destroy the Canaanites (Deuteronomy 7:1)_ 2. The command to destroy their idolatry (Deuteronomy 7:5) 3. The promise...
DEUTERONOMY 7:6 gives reasons why Israel ought to serve Yahweh. Deuteronomy 7:9. Render, know therefore that Yahweh thy God is the (_i.e._ the true, see Deuteronomy 4:35) God, the faithful God, one w...
HORNET. a fierce kind of wasp. May be taken literally or by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), for the terror caused by it. Compare Exodus 23:27, and Deuteronomy 2:25. Or, by Figure of speech _Me...
AND ALSO THE HORNETS WILL JEHOVAH … SEND, etc.] E twice, Exodus 23:28; Joshua 24:12. -By _also_D indicates that he will have the _hornets_understood not as the only weapon of God, but as an example o...
b. DIFFICULTIES OF THE HOLY WAR (Deuteronomy 7:17-26) 17 If thou shalt say in thy heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them? 18 thou shalt not be afraid of them: thou shalt well...
_MOREOVER THE LORD THY GOD WILL SEND THE HORNET AMONG THEM, UNTIL THEY THAT ARE LEFT, AND HIDE THEMSELVES FROM THEE, BE DESTROYED._ God will send the hornet among them. 'It is of the same appearance...
PRACTICAL EXHORTATIONS (CONTINUED) In this chapter the people are warned against temptations to idolatry and enjoined to avoid contact with their idolatrous neighbours: see on Exodus 23:32; Numbers 2...
DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 7 V1 ‘The *LORD your God will bring you into the country that you will possess. He will force o...
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....
וְ גַם֙ אֶת ־הַ צִּרְעָ֔ה יְשַׁלַּ֛ח יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ בָּ֑ם עַד ־אֲבֹ֗ד הַ נִּשְׁאָרִ֛ים וְ...
THE BAN Deuteronomy 7:1 As in the previous chapter we have had the Mosaic and Deuteronomic statement of the internal and spiritual means of defending the Israelite character and faith from the tempt...
WHAT THE LORD DOES FOR HIS PEOPLE Deuteronomy 7:12 The promises to obedience are enlarged upon with touching copiousness. Love, blessing, keeping, peace, multiplication, fruit and health lie along t...
Continuing to deal with the responsibilities of the people as they entered the land, Moses insisted upon the absolute necessity for the maintenance of the attitude of separation to God. Stringent inst...
Moreover the LORD thy God will send the (h) hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed. (h) There is not a creature so small, that I will not arm it to f...
_Hornets. Abenezra understands the leprosy, which the Hebrew may also signify. But hornets and such like insects are very destructive in hot countries; and Pausanias informs us that the Minsiens were...
Here again, as before, Israel is reminded of GOD'S former mercies, as the surest encouragement to the expectation of future favors. Reader! I pray you mark it down in the history of your own life-the...
In examining Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, we have found what may be called an abstract typical system. That is, we see in them a number of institutions laid down by Jehovah, the pattern of which wa...
20._Moreover, the Lord thy God will send the hornet. _Since the destruction of their enemies might seem long, if they were only to be slain by their hands and weapons, and again, because it was scarce...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 5, 6, AND 7. In chapter 5 Moses reminds them of the ten commandments given in Horeb; and it is to be remarked, that the deliverance out of Egypt (not the res...
MOREOVER, THE LORD THY GOD WILL SEND THE HORNET AMONG THEM,.... 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...
Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed. Ver. 20. _Send the hornet._] _See Trapp on "_ Exo 23:28 _"_...
1 All communion with the Nations is forbidden, 4 for feare of Idolatrie, 6 for the holinesse of the people, 9 for the nature of God in his Mercie and Iustice, 17 for the assurednesse of victorie w...
THE EXTERMINATION OF THE HEATHEN NATIONS ENJOINED...
ISRAEL SEPARATED TO GOD (vs.1-11) Again the Lord emphasizes the importance of Israel's sanctification from the nations. When they entered the land, God would give them victory over the inhabitants,...
12-26 We are in danger of having fellowship with the works of darkness if we take pleasure in fellowship with those who do such works. Whatever brings us into a snare, brings us under a curse. Let us...
THE HORNET; of which see on EXODUS 23:28....
When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee,... seven nations greater and mightier than thou. And when the Lord th...
Deuteronomy 7:20 LORD H3068 God H430 send H7971 (H8762) hornet H6880 left H7604 (H8737) hide H5641 (H8737) from H6440 destroyed H6 (H8800) the hornet - Exodus 23:28-30; Joshua 24:12...
THEY MUST THOROUGHLY CLEANSE THE LAND OF BOTH ITS PEOPLES AND ITS IDOLATRY, AND HE HIMSELF WILL BE WITH THEM TO ENABLE THEM TO DO IT (DEUTERONOMY 7:16). This reference to their enemies who hate them...
CONTENTS: Command to be separate people and to destroy opposing nations. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: Those who are taken into communion with God must have no communication with the unfruitfu...
Deuteronomy 7:3. _Neither make marriages with them._ See note on Ezra 10:2. Deuteronomy 7:5. _And cut down their groves._ The patriarchal devotion being performed at first on hills, and in places dest...
_The Lord thy God will send the hornet._ SECRET SINS DRIVEN OUT BY STINGING HORNETS I. Sins which are left and hidden. John Bunyan very wisely describes the town of Mansoul after it had been taken by...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 7:20 HORNETS may be a literal reference to the winged insect. Or it may describe people who flee in panic as if being chased by hornets. See Exodus 23:28; and note on J...
CRITICAL NOTES.—Israel is forwarded against the idolatry of the people whose country they were about to enter (_cf_. Deuteronomy 6:14). The nations were more powerful than Israel, but God would delive...
EXPOSITION ENTIRE SEPARATION FROM IDOLATROUS NATIONS ENJOINED. DEUTERONOMY 7:1 The Israelites were about to enter on a country occupied by idolaters, and they are commanded not to spare them or to a...
Now in chapter seven, When God brings you into the land and cast out these enemies that are bigger and stronger than you are; And he delivers them from before you; and smites them, and destroys them;...
Exodus 23:28; Joshua 24:12...