Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Kings 7:6

6 For the LORD made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites , and the kings of the Egyptians to come upon us.

Either, in the Air: or rather in their Ears: otherwise the Samaritans had heard it.

Under which name (as elsewhere under the name of the Amorites) he seems to understand all, or any of the people of Canaan. For though the greatest number of that people were destroyed, yet [illegible: 1+ letters]ry many of them were spared, and many of them upon Ioshua's coming, fled away, some to more remote parts, (whi[illegible: 1+ letters] that famous and ancient Inscription upon a Pillar in Africa testifies) and others to the Lands bordering upon Canaan, where by reason of the scarcity of Inhabitants there was in t[illegible: 1+ letters]t Age room enough for them; and there they seated themselves, and grew numerous and powerful, and had (after their ancient and constant manner) Kings over them. The Kings also of Tyrus or Sidon may be here included.

By which they may understand, either the King of Egypt, the Plural Number being put for the Singular, as it is elsewhere: or, the Princes and Governors of the several Nomi or Provinces in Egypt, such being oft called kings in Scripture.

Marginal references: 2 Sam. 5. 2[illegible: 1+ letters]