Matthew Poole and continuators on Amos 4:10

10 I have sent among you the pestilence , after the manner of Egypt : your young men have I slain with the sword , and have taken away your horses , and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils : yet have you not returned unto me, saith the LORD .

You have died of Plague, but I commissioned the Disease, I [illegible: 1 letter]ent it, and it swept you away in such manner, that any observant eye might have seen the hand of God against you in it, and might have read the Commission.

Arrow of God, that walketh in the dark, that wasteth at noon day.

In which there was somewhat extraordinary, it swept away both Men and Beasts, say some, probably 'twas this Disease which by the stroke of the Angel seised the First-born in Egypt. Others interpret this with particular respect to the Death of them in going down to seek aid of Egypt, or in their return from Egypt, as if the Prophet minded them of many that died on the way to or from Egypt, but the phrase in the way is better rendred by our Translators after the manner.

God was their Enemy and slew their young men the choice of their strength and hope.

In War and by their neighbouring Enemies in Iehoa[illegible: 1 letter]az his time, and Syrians since that too, 2 Kings 13.3. and 15.16. and 19. compared.

Not by Murrain but by what was worse to you by the hand of those who did ride them, and these being slain the Horses were taken by the Enemy, and added to their strength, and your danger.

So great slaughter hath been made in your Camp that there were not sufficient to bury the slain before they stunk and offended you.

Vid. verse 6. let. p.

Marginal references: Or, in the way.; Heb. with the captivity of your horses.