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Deuteronomy 7:20 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Moreover the LORD your God will send the hornet among them, until those who are left, and hide themselves, perish from before you. "
Deuteronomy 7:20
Verse in Context
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18 you shall not be afraid of them. You shall remember well what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt:
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 peoples of whom you are afraid.
20 Moreover the LORD your God will send the hornet among them, until those who are left, and hide themselves, perish from before you.
21 You shall not be scared of them; for the LORD your God is among you, a great and awesome God.
22 The LORD your God will cast out those nations before you little by little. You may not consume them at once, lest the animals of the field increase on you.
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Deuteronomy 7:1
"When the LORD your God brings you into the land where you go to possess it, and casts out many nations before you—the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite—seven nations greater and mightier than you;"
Deuteronomy 7:2
"and when the LORD your God delivers them up before you, and you strike them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them."
Deuteronomy 7:3
"You shall not make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son."
Deuteronomy 7:4
"For that would turn away your sons from following me, that they may serve other gods. So the LORD’s anger would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly."
Deuteronomy 7:5
"But you shall deal with them like this: you shall break down their altars, dash their pillars in pieces, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their engraved images with fire."
Deuteronomy 7:6
"For you are a holy people to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth."
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