Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 46:8

8 Egypt riseth up like a flood, and his waters are moved like the rivers, and he saith I will go up, and will cover the earth, I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof .

The Prophet compareth the Egyptians fleshed with their former victory obtained against Iosiah at M[illegible: 1 letter]gi[illegible: 1 letter]do, and now preparing to another expedition to a flood (with allusion probably to the River Nilus, whose waters used to rise to a great height) both for the multitude of their Souldiers, and for their [illegible: 1 letter]age; they were resolved to carry such numbers us should cover the Earth▪ and to take Carchemish, or some other City which their design was against. It should seem both by this Text and that Exod. 15.9, 10. That the Egyptians were a people much given to vaunt and boast of the great things they would do, boasting when they were putting on their Harness as if they were putting it off, not considering how incertain the events of War were, nor yet that wherein they talked proudly there was one that could be abo[illegible: 1 letter]e them.