And I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Hornets, or wasps, Wisdom xii. 8. Josue (xxiv. 12) assures us this was verified. Thus scorpions forced the Ethiopians to abandon their country; and flies and wasps drove away the Mysians and Phase ides. See Bo chart, iv. 13. The latter people were of Phoenician extraction, and probably fled before Josue. Most of the Chanaanites withdrew into Africa; some perhaps into America. (Calmet)
