Exodus 23:28

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

Leeser Tanakh

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

27My terror will I send before thee, and will bring in confusion all the people to which thou shalt come; and I will make all thy enemies turn their back unto thee.

29I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 33:27Thy refuge is the eternal God, and here beneath, the everlasting arms; and he thrust out the enemy from before thee; and he said, Destroy.

Joshua 24:12And I sent before you the hornet which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Emorites: not with thy sword, and not 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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