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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Deuteronomy 7:20

Moreover, the Lord, thy God, will send the hornet among them, Exodus 23:28, a special terror intended to make them lose heart, until they that are left and hide themselves from thee be destroyed; for Israel was to be as active in the work of extermination as the instrument which God used.

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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

  • 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 speech _Me...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • 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 appearance...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE HORNET] see on Exodus 23:28....

  • 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; Numbers 2...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • 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....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ גַם֙ אֶת ־הַ צִּרְעָ֔ה יְשַׁלַּ֛ח יְהוָ֥ה

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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 tempta...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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 th...

  • 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 inst...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    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 d...

  • 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...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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 rest...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole 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, an...

  • 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 _"_...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Leslie 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 inhabitants, a...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE HORNET; of which see on EXODUS 23:28....

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Deuteronomy 7:20 LORD H3068 God H430 send H7971 (H8762) hornet H6880 left H7604 (H8737) hide H5641 ...

  • 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). This reference to their enemies who hate them l...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • 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 places dest...

  • 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 taken by...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The 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 delive...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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;...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Exodus 23:28; Joshua 24:12...

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