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Exodus 23:28
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I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the Hivvi, the Kana`ani, and the Hittite, from before you.
And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.
And I will send the hornet before you, and it will drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites from before you.
I will send terror ahead of you that will force the Hivites, Canaanites, and Hittites out of your way.
I will send hornets before you that will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite before you.
"And I will send hornets ahead of you so that they will drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites from you.
And I will sende hornets before thee, which shal driue out the Hiuites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites from thy face.
And I will send hornets ahead of you so that they will drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites before you.
I will make the Hivites, Canaanites, and Hittites panic as you approach.
I will send hornets ahead of you to drive out the Hivi, Kena‘ani and Hitti from before you.
And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.
I will send the hornet in front of you. He will force your enemies to leave. The Hivites, Canaanites, and Hittites will leave your country.
And I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites from before you.
And I will send fierce armies before you, and will destroy the Canaanites and the Hittites from before you.
I will throw your enemies into panic; I will drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites as you advance.
I will send hornets in front of you, and they will drive the Hivites, Canaanites, and Hethites away from you.
And I will send hornets before you which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite before you.
I wyll sende hornettes before ye, and dryue out the Heuytes, Cananites and Hethytes before the.
And I will send the hornet before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.
I will send hornets before you, driving out the Hivite and the Canaanite and the Hittite before your face.
And I wyll sende hornettes before thee, which shall driue out the Heuites, the Chanaanites, and the Hethites, before thee.
And I will send the hornet before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.
And I will send hornets before thee, which shall driue out the Hiuite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before thee.
And I will send hornets before thee, and thou shalt cast out the Amorites and the Evites, and the Chananites and the Chettites from thee.
And I will send the hornet before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.
I will send the hornet before you to drive the Hivites and Canaanites and Hittites out of your way.
and Y schal sende out bifore scrabrouns, that schulen dryue awei Euey, and Cananey, and Ethei, bifore that thou entre.
`And I have sent the hornet before thee, and it hath cast out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee;
And I will send the hornet before you, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you.
And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before thee.
I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you.
And I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before you.
I will send terror ahead of you to drive out the Hivites, Canaanites, and Hittites.
I will send hornets before you. They will drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites and the Hittites before you come.
And I will send the pestilence in front of you, which shall drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites from before you.
And I will send the hornet, before thee, - and it shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.
Sending out hornets before, that shall drive away the Hevite, and the Chanaanite, and the Hethite, before thou come in.
And I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out Hivite, Canaanite, and Hittite from before you.
"And I'll send Despair on ahead of you. It will push the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites out of your way. I won't get rid of them all at once lest the land grow up in weeds and the wild animals take over. Little by little I'll get them out of there while you have a chance to get your crops going and make the land your own. I will make your borders stretch from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea and from the Wilderness to the Euphrates River. I'm turning everyone living in that land over to you; go ahead and drive them out.
"I will send hornets ahead of you so that they will drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites before you.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
hornets: Tzirâh, The hornet, may be so called from the Arabic zaraâ, to lay prostrate, strike down, because of the destruction occasioned by the violence of its sting. The hornet, in natural history, belongs to the species Crabro, of the genus Vespa or Wasp. It is a most voracious insect, and exceedingly strong for its size, which is generally an inch in length. Deuteronomy 7:20, Joshua 24:11
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 4:38 - drive Deuteronomy 6:19 - General Deuteronomy 7:1 - the Hittites Deuteronomy 31:4 - General Joshua 5:1 - Canaanites Joshua 12:8 - the Hittites Joshua 24:12 - I sent Judges 1:4 - Lord 1 Kings 9:20 - Amorites 1 Chronicles 1:13 - Heth Psalms 44:2 - how thou didst afflict Psalms 80:9 - preparedst
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And I will send hornets before thee,.... Which may be interpreted either figuratively, and so may signify the same as fear before which should fall on the Canaanites upon hearing the Israelites were coming; the stings of their consciences for their sins, terrors of mind, dreading the wrath of the God of Israel, of whom they had heard, and terrible apprehensions of ruin and destruction from the Israelites: Aben Ezra interprets it of some disease of the body, which weakens it, as the leprosy, from the signification of the word, which has some affinity with that used for the leprosy; and so the Arabic version understands it of a disease: or rather, the words are to be taken literally, for hornets, which are a sort of wasps, whose stings are very penetrating and venomous; nor is it any strange or unheard of thing for people to be drove out of their countries by small animals, as mice, flies, bees, c. and particularly Aelianus q relates, that the Phaselites were drove out of their country by wasps: and Bochart r has shown that those people were of a Phoenician original, and inhabited the mountains of Solymi and that this happened to them about the times of Joshua, and so may probably be the very Canaanites here mentioned, as follow: the wasps, in Aristophanes's comedy which bears that name, are introduced speaking of themselves, and say, no creature when provoked is more angry and troublesome than we are s:
which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee; which three are mentioned instead of the rest, or because they were more especially infested and distressed with the hornets, and drove out of their land by means of them.
q Hist. Animal. l. 11. c. 28. r Hierozoic. par. 2. l. 4. c. 13. col. 541. s Aristoph. Vespae, p. 510.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Hornets - Compare the marginal references. The word is used figuratively for a cause of terror and discouragement. Bees are spoken of in the like sense, Deuteronomy 1:44; Psalms 118:12.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Exodus 23:28. I will send hornets before thee — הצרעה hatstsirah. The root is not found in Hebrew, but it may be the same with the Arabic [Arabic] saraa, to lay prostrate, to strike down; the hornet, probably so called from the destruction occasioned by the violence of its sting. The hornet, in natural history, belongs to the species crabro, of the genus vespa or wasp; it is a most voracious insect, and is exceedingly strong for its size, which is generally an inch in length, though I have seen some an inch and a half long, and so strong that, having caught one in a small pair of forceps, it repeatedly escaped by using violent contortions, so that at last I was obliged to abandon all hopes of securing it alive, which I wished to have done. How distressing and destructive a multitude of these might be, any person may conjecture; even the bees of one hive would be sufficient to sting a thousand men to madness, but how much worse must wasps and hornets be! No armour, no weapons, could avail against these. A few thousands of them would be quite sufficient to throw the best disciplined army into confusion and rout. From Joshua 24:12, we find that two kings of the Amorites were actually driven out of the land by these hornets, so that the Israelites were not obliged to use either sword or bow in the conquest.
