Note 293 — Chapter V · THE AGE OF THE JUDGES
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Was the campaign of Ramses III. the mysterious ‘hornet’ sent before the children of Israel to destroy the populations of Canaan (Exod. xxiii. 28, Deut. vii. 20, Josh. xxiv. 12)? At any rate, this is more probable than the suggestion that tsir’âh, rendered ‘hornet,’ is a variant of tsâra’ath, ‘plague.’