King James Version
Deuteronomy 7:20 in the King James Version says “Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be d...” — study this verse from Deuteronomy chapter 7 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“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 · KJV
Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt well remember what the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt;
The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the LORD thy God brought thee out: so shall the LORD thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid .
Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.
Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible.
And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee. put: Heb. pluck off
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“Moreover the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
“thy God”
H430gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme god; occasionally applied by way of
as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)
“thee be destroyed”
H6properly, to wander away, i.e., lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)
“among them until they that are left”
H7604properly, to swell up, i.e., be (causatively, make) redundant
“themselves from”
H6440the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi
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