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19 The great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, the wonders, the mighty hand and the outstretched arm by which the Lord your God brought you out. So shall the Lord your God do to all the people of whom you are afraid.

20 Moreover, the Lord your God will send the [a]hornet among them until those who are left and hide themselves from you are destroyed.

21 You shall not dread them, for the Lord your God is among you, a mighty and terrible God.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 7:20 “... the hornet” with the article, used in a collective sense as a species or kind, is thus evidently to be understood, as in Deut. 2:25, as the terrors of God which should go before Israel, with which also Josh. 24:12 and Ps. 44:2 fully agree (J.P. Lange, A Commentary).

19 You saw with your own eyes the great trials, the signs and wonders, the mighty hand(A) and outstretched arm, with which the Lord your God brought you out. The Lord your God will do the same to all the peoples you now fear.(B) 20 Moreover, the Lord your God will send the hornet(C) among them until even the survivors who hide from you have perished. 21 Do not be terrified by them, for the Lord your God, who is among you,(D) is a great and awesome God.(E)

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