Exodus 23:28

28. I will send hornets before thee There is no necessity to explain this literally, and there is no evidence that any such miracle as the driving out of the Canaanites by swarms of hornets occurred during the entire history of the conquest of Palestine . There are, indeed, divers accounts of certain ancient tribes being driven out of their lands by armies of wasps and other noxious creatures; and the armies of locusts which occasionally sweep through those countries are a most destructive plague . But a comparison of Deuteronomy 1:44, Joshua 24:12, Psalms 118:12, and Isaiah 7:18-19, will show that this expression was employed metaphorically to denote any marked interposition of God to discomfit the enemies of his people .