and the Hittite] He nameth but three Nations here, understanding by them the rest fore-mentioned, vers. 23. hornets] Not onely enemies armed with weapons, as hornets with stings, (as some conceive) but hornets, according to the Hebrew, such as were usually called by that name; for with these God might plague them, as he did the Egyptians with the frogs and locusts; and thereby might destroy them: the accomplishment of this commination we may reade, Joshua 24:12.