דברים 7:20

Hebrew Modern Translation

וגם את הצרעה ישלח יהוה אלהיך בם עד אבד הנשארים והנסתרים מפניך׃

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Aleppo Codex
וגם את הצרעה ישלח יהוה אלהיך בם עד אבד הנשארים והנסתרים מפניך

Biblia Hebrica Stuttgartensia (1967/77)
וְגַם֙ אֶת־הַצִּרְעָ֔ה יְשַׁלַּ֛ח יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ בָּ֑ם עַד־אֲבֹ֗ד הַנִּשְׁאָרִ֛ים וְהַנִּסְתָּרִ֖ים מִפָּנֶֽיךָ ׃

Westminster Leningrad Codex
וְגַם אֶת־הַצִּרְעָה יְשַׁלַּח יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ בָּם עַד־אֲבֹד הַנִּשְׁאָרִים וְהַנִּסְתָּרִים מִפָּנֶֽיךָ ׃

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the hornet: Exodus 23:28-30, Joshua 24:12

Reciprocal: Isaiah 7:18 - fly

Gill's Notes on the 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 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.