Deuteronomy 7:20 Commentary, explanation, 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. ”

Deuteronomy 7:20 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

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...
Deuteronomy 7:20 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Deuteronomy 7:6-24 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 faith...
Deuteronomy 7:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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 spe...
Deuteronomy 7:20 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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 w...
Deuteronomy 7:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.
Deuteronomy 7:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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 appea...
Deuteronomy 7:20 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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 23:32-33 ;...
Deuteronomy 7:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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.
Deuteronomy 7:20 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE BAN Deuteronomy 7:1-26 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 t...
Deuteronomy 7:20 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

What the Lord Does for His People Deuteronomy 7:12-26 The promises to obedience are enlarged upon with touching copiousness. Love, blessing, keeping, peace, multiplication, fruit and health lie...
Deuteronomy 7:20 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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 ins...
Deuteronomy 7:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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...
Deuteronomy 7:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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,...
Deuteronomy 7:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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 "
Deuteronomy 7:20 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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 inhabitant...
Deuteronomy 7:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the L ORD thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fa...
Deuteronomy 7:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The hornet; of which see on Exodus 23:28 .
Deuteronomy 7:20 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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 7:16-26 ). This reference to their enemies who h...
Deuteronomy 7:20 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 d...
Deuteronomy 7:20 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 pla...
Deuteronomy 7:20 - The Biblical Illustrator

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 take...
Deuteronomy 7:20 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION ENTIRE SEPARATION FROM IDOLATROUS NATIONS ENJOINED . Deuteronomy 7:1-5 The Israelites were about to enter on a country occupied by idolaters, and they are commanded n...
Deuteronomy 7:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Extermination of the Heathen Nations Enjoined
Deuteronomy 7:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Exodus 23:28-30 ; Joshua 24:12

Deuteronomy 7:20 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Deuteronomy 7:20 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Deuteronomy 7:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Deuteronomy 7:20 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Deuteronomy 7:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Deuteronomy 7:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Deuteronomy 7:20 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Deuteronomy 7:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Deuteronomy 7:20 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Deuteronomy 7:20 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Deuteronomy 7:20 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Deuteronomy 7:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Deuteronomy 7:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Deuteronomy 7:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Deuteronomy 7:20 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Deuteronomy 7:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Deuteronomy 7:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Deuteronomy 7:20 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Deuteronomy 7:20 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Deuteronomy 7:20 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Deuteronomy 7:20 - The Biblical Illustrator

Deuteronomy 7:20 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Deuteronomy 7:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Deuteronomy 7:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge