Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 7:20 
Context7:20 Furthermore, the Lord your God will release hornets 1 among them until the very last ones who hide from you 2 perish.
Deuteronomy 28:22
Context28:22 He 3 will afflict you with weakness, 4 fever, inflammation, infection, 5 sword, 6 blight, and mildew; these will attack you until you perish.
1 tn The meaning of the term translated “hornets” (צִרְעָה, tsir’ah) is debated. Various suggestions are “discouragement” (HALOT 1056-57 s.v.; cf. NEB, TEV, CEV “panic”; NCV “terror”) and “leprosy” (J. H. Tigay, Deuteronomy [JPSTC], 360, n. 33; cf. NRSV “the pestilence”), as well as “hornet” (BDB 864 s.v.; cf. NAB, NASB, NIV, NLT). The latter seems most suitable to the verb שָׁלַח (shalakh, “send”; cf. Exod 23:28; Josh 24:12).
2 tn Heb “the remnant and those who hide themselves.”
3 tn Heb “The
4 tn Or perhaps “consumption” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV). The term is from a verbal root that indicates a weakening of one’s physical strength (cf. NAB “wasting”; NIV, NLT “wasting disease”).
5 tn Heb “hot fever”; NIV “scorching heat.”
6 tn Or “drought” (so NIV, NRSV, NLT).
