Exodus 23:28-31 ▼

28 I will send hornets in front of you, and they will drive the Hivites, Canaanites, and Hethites away from you.

29 I will not drive them out ahead of you in a single year; otherwise, the land would become desolate, and wild animals would multiply against you.

30 I will drive them out little by little ahead of you until you have become numerous and take possession of the land.

31 I will set your borders from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates River. For I will place the inhabitants of the land under your control, and you will drive them out ahead of you.