Matthew Poole and continuators on Joshua 24:12

12 And I sent the hornet before you, which drave them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites: but not with thy sword, nor with thy bow .

Either siguratively, i. e. Terrors and Plagues, or other destroying Judgments. Or 2. Properly so called. See on Exod. 23. 28. And this being done before Ioshua's entrance into Canaan, it is not strange if it be not mentioned in this Book or Record of Ioshua's actions.

For though thou didst fight with them, and prevail against them in Battel, yet this was not because thou hadst more force or courage than they; but because by my Hornet which I sent like an Harbinger before thee, I had both broken their spirits, and greatly diminished their numbers, and particularly cut off those Giants or others who were like to give thee most trouble and difficulty; whence it comes to pass that we read of so few Giants in that Land which was called the Land of Giants, Deut. 3. 13.

Marginal references: Exod. 23. 2[illegible: 1+ letters]. Deut. 7. 20.; Psal. 44. 3, 6.