Exodus 23:28

and I shall send out before thee crabrones, or stinging flies, that shall drive away (the) Hivite, and Canaanite, and Hittite, before that thou enter.

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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 shall send my dread into thy before-going, and I shall slay all the people, to which thou shalt enter, (or I shall send the fear of me before thee, and I shall kill all the people, unto whom thou shalt enter), and I shall turn the backs of all thine enemies before thee;

29(But) I shall not cast them out from thy face in one year, lest the land be turned into wilderness, and beasts increase against thee;

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 33:27His dwelling place is above, and his arms everlasting be beneath; he shall cast out from thy face the enemy, and he shall say to them, Be thou all-broken. (His dwelling place is above, but his everlasting arms be beneath; he shall throw out the enemy from before us, and he shall say to us, Destroy them all!)

Joshua 24:12And I sent flies with venomous tongues before you, and I casted them out of their places; (yea), I killed [the] two kings of (the) Amorites, not in thy sword, nor in thy bow, (or but not with thy sword, or 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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