I will send the hornet before you to drive the Hivites and Canaanites and Hittites out of your way.
28. And I will send hornets. Although that secret terror, of which He had made mention, would be sufficient to put their enemies to flight, He states that there would also be other ready means, to rout them without any danger, or much difficulty to His people.
God sends His angel, likely the Son of God Himself, to guide Israel through wilderness and enemy country alike. He demands obedience to this messenger; your part is not to murmur or test Him, but to keep His precepts and hear His voice, and He will be enemy to your enemies and bring you safely to the land prepared.
AI summary
Commenting on Exodus 23:20-33
By little and little I will drive them out from before thee,.... Not the beasts of the field, but the inhabitants of Canaan, who were left partly to keep up the cities and towns, that they might not fall to ruin, and to till the land, that it might not be desolate; and partly to be trials and exercises to the people of Israel, and...