“... Some scholars object to deber as a true deity name,98 but its partnering with rešep in Habakkuk 3:5 strongly suggests this is the case, “given the presence of [Resheph] in the Ugaritic texts as a god of destruction (KTU 1.14 I 18–19; 1.82:3).”99 Rešep appears in Deuteronomy 32:23–24, where Yahweh threatens his apostate people: 23And I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend my arrows on them; 24they shall be wasted with hunger (rāʿāb), and devoured by plague (rešep) and poisonous pestilence (qeṭeb). As noted above, Resheph is a deity of destruction at Ugarit. He is portrayed as an archer there (KTU 1.82:3), and so the phrase “spending my arrows” is interesting. Resheph is accompanied by qeṭeb and rāʿāb. The former appears in an Ugaritic text as a kinsman of Mōt (“Death”). The latter appears to be an epithet of Mōt.100 In Psalm 91:3–6, the psalmist writes that those who dwell in the shelter of the Most High and abide in the shadow of the Almighty will be delivered “from the deadly pestilence [deber]” (v. 3) and will not fear “the arrow that flies by day, nor the pestilence [deber] that stalks in darkness, nor the destruction [qeṭeb] that wastes at noonday” (v. 5–6). Why? Because these forces are not autonomous deities. Yahweh of Israel is in control of them. Consequently, he will protect his own from their lethal harm. ...”