Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 46:25

25 The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel saith , Behold, I will punish the multitude of No , and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods, and their kings, even Pharaoh, and all them that trust in him .

These names are often in conjunction given unto God, the first signifying his Power, or ability to do what he either promiseth or threatneth, the other speaking his kindness and near relation to the Jews.

There are great critical disputes about this phrase, whether the word translated multitude, signifies so (as it doth, chap. 52.15.) and if so whether it should not be the multitude from No. Or whether it signifies the nourisher, (as some would have it) because No (which most think is the same City with that at this time called Alexandria, being a great place of Merchandise) nourished all the adjacent parts, but it is no easie thing to resolve the question, nor is the resolution of it of much moment to us.

By those that trusted in Pharaoh the Jews are most probably meant, who all along in their prosperity put too much confidence in Egypt, and after that Hierusalem was taken, some of them (as we before heard) fled into Egypt for Sanctuary.

Marginal references: Or, nouri[illegible: 1 letter]her.; Heb. [illegible: 1 word].; chap. 43.12, 13. Eze. 30.13.