Deuteronomy 7:20

Hornet (cf. Exodus 23:28 ). Instances are on record of armies being obliged to give way before swarms of insects by which they were attacked; but it may be doubted if the statement here is to be understood literally, and not rather figuratively, as expressive of many and varied evils with which the fugitive Canaanites were to be visited until they were extirpated (cf. Joshua 24:12 , compared with Joshua 10:22-27 ).