Exodus 23:27-28

God promised His people various provisions if they would be obedient. We should probably understand the hornets (Exodus 23:28) figuratively. There is no reference in the text to God using real hornets to drive out the Canaanites, but He did use other hornet-like forces (cf. Joshua 24:12).

"Perhaps ’the hornet’ is a symbol of Egypt, just as Isaiah 7:18 uses the ’fly’ and the ’bee’ as symbols of Egypt and Assyria, respectively." [Note: Kaiser, "Exodus," p. 447.]