Matthew Poole and continuators on Amos 2:10

10 Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt , and led you fourty years through the wilderness to possess the land of the Amorite .

You did not rescue your selves out of the hands of your Enemies I did in meer mercy with a mighty arm save, and rescue you, and brought you out

where you were oppressed servants, and exposed to ruin

As a shepherd leads his flock, nay, miraculously conducting by the Pillar of a Cloud, and Fire, and feeding with Manna from Heaven.

Reckoning from their coming out of Egypt,

they passed through many Wildernesses named in Scripture according as they were then called, but all these lay so contiguous each to other, that they all made up one great Wilderness, as the many names given to parts of the Sea make us know what particular part is spoken of, but all make one Sea.

As an Heir possesseth that he hath an hereditary right to,

including all the rest of the accursed, and dispossessed Nations.

Marginal references: [illegible: 1 paragraph]