SEV Biblia, Chapter 24:12
Y envié avispas delante de vosotros, los cuales los echaron de delante de vosotros, a saber , a los dos reyes de los amorreos; no con tu espada, ni con tu arco.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Joshua 24:12
Verse 12. I sent the hornet before you] See the note on Exodus xxiii. 28.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 12. And I sent the hornet before you , etc.] Of which (see Gill on “ Exodus 23:28”); which drave them out from before you, [even] the two kings of the Amorites ; who were Sihon and Og, and not only them, and the Amorites under them, but the other nations, Hivites, Hittites, etc. [but] not with thy sword, nor with thy bow ; but by insects of the Lord’s sending to them, which, as Kimchi says, so blinded their eyes, that they could not see to fight, and so Israel came upon them, and slew them; in which the hand of the Lord was manifestly seen, and to whose power, and not, their own, the destruction of their enemies was to be ascribed.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-14 - We must never think our work for God done, till our life is done. If he lengthen out our days beyond what we expected, like those of Joshua, it is because he has some further service for us to do. He who aims at the same mind which was in Christ Jesus, will glory in bearing the las testimony to his Saviour's goodness, and in telling to all around, the obligations with which the unmerited goodness of God has bound him. The assembly came together in a solemn religious manner. Joshua spake to them in God's name, and as from him. His sermon consists of doctrin and application. The doctrinal part is a history of the great thing God had done for his people, and for their fathers before them. The application of this history of God's mercies to them, is an exhortatio to fear and serve God, in gratitude for his favour, and that it migh be continued.
Original Hebrew
ואשׁלח 7971 לפניכם 6440 את 853 הצרעה 6880 ותגרשׁ 1644 אותם 853 מפניכם 6440 שׁני 8147 מלכי 4428 האמרי 567 לא 3808 בחרבך 2719 ולא 3808 בקשׁתך׃ 7198
