Exodus 23:28

Sending out hornets before, that shall drive away the Hevite, and the Chanaanite, and the Hethite, before thou come in.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.

In Context

27I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come: and will turn the backs of all thy enemies before thee.

29I will not cast them out from thy face in one year: lest the land be brought into a wilderness, and the beasts multiply against thee.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 33:27His dwelling is above, and underneath are the everlasting arms: he shall cast out the enemy from before thee, and shall say: Be thou brought to nought.

Joshua 24:12And I sent before you hornets: and I drove them out from their places, the two kings of the Amorrhites, not with thy sword nor with thy bow.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 23:21-33

Precepts and Promises. ( b. c. 1491.) 20 Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. 21 Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him. 22 But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries. 23 For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the… Read the whole commentary →

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