Hornets - Compare the marginal references. The word is used figuratively for a cause of terror and discouragement. Bees are spoken of in a s…

THE PROMISES OF GOD TO ISRAEL, IF THE COVENANT IS KEPT.

The Book of the Covenant concludes, very appropriately, with a seri…

And I will send hornets. Although that secret terror, which He had mentioned, would be sufficient to put their enemies to flight, He state…

And I will send hornets before you
Which may be interpreted either figuratively, and so may signify the same as fear…

It is here promised that they would be guided and kept in their way through the wilderness to the land of promise: Behold, I send an angel befo…