Exodus 23:28
Good News Translation
I will throw your enemies into panic; I will drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites as you advance.

New Revised Standard Version
And I will send the pestilence in front of you, which shall drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites from before you.

Contemporary English Version
I will make the Hivites, Canaanites, and Hittites panic as you approach.

New American Bible
and ahead of you I will send hornets to drive the Hivites, Canaanites and Hittites out of your way.

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

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

hornets.

Deuteronomy 7:20 Moreover the Lord thy God will send also hornets among them, until he destroy and consume all that have escaped thee, and could hide themselves.

Joshua 24:11 And you passed over the Jordan, and you came to Jericho. And the men of that city fought against you, the Amorrhite, and the Pherezite, and the Chanaanite, and the Hethite, and the Gergesite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite: and I delivered them into your hands.

Context
God's Angel to Lead
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: 28Sending out hornets before, that shall drive away the Hevite, and the Chanaanite, and the Hethite, before thou come in.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.…
Cross References
Genesis 15:19
The Cineans, and Cenezites, the Cedmonites,

Exodus 33:2
And I will send an angel before thee, that I may cast out the Chanaanite, and the Amorrhite, and the Hethite, and the Pherezite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite,

Exodus 34:11
Observe all things which this day I command thee: I myself will drive out before thy face the Amorrhite, and the Chanaanite, and the Hethite, and the Pherezite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite.

Deuteronomy 7:20
Moreover the Lord thy God will send also hornets among them, until he destroy and consume all that have escaped thee, and could hide themselves.

Joshua 24:11
And you passed over the Jordan, and you came to Jericho. And the men of that city fought against you, the Amorrhite, and the Pherezite, and the Chanaanite, and the Hethite, and the Gergesite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite: and I delivered them into your hands.

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

Psalm 80:9
Thou wast the guide of its journey in its sight: thou plantedst the roots thereof, and it filled the land.

Exodus 23:27
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