Matthew Poole and continuators on Amos 4:8
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Amos4:8
8 So two or three cities wandred to one city to drink water; but they were not satisfied : yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD .
A certain for an uncertain number.
The places for the inhabitants by an usual Metonymie.
It seems to imply that they travelled at some uncertainty, as they do who wander and rove about.
It is not unlikely but that in the Prophets times the story might be well known and fresh in memory, though here no mention is made of these Cities.
Either that City they went to had not enough for them, or durst not part with it, or though they quencht their thirst, yet because they must return back to their own dry and waterless Cities, or because God withdrew his blessing they were never the better or else not much or long the better.
Vid. ver. 6. let. p.
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