Exodus 23:28 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

And I will send swarms of hornets in front of you, which shall drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites from before you.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

I’ll send insect swarms in front of you and drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites before you.

Catholic Public Domain Version

sending wasps ahead, so that they will put to flight the Hivite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, before you enter.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Exodus 23:28 Cross References

Genesis 15:19

the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,

Psalm 80:9

You cleared the ground for it; it took deep root and filled the land.

Exodus 33:2

I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanites, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

Exodus 34:11

“Observe what I command you today. See, I will drive out before you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

Deuteronomy 33:27

He subdues the ancient gods, shatters the forces of old; he drove out the enemy before you and said, ‘Destroy!’

Deuteronomy 7:20

Moreover, the Lord your God will send swarms of hornets against them until even the survivors and the fugitives are destroyed.