Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 44:2

2. How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantest them , how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.

The Canaanites.

To wit, our Fathers, easily understood both from the Matter, and from v. 1. where they are expressed: the Pronoun being referred unto the Remoter Antecedent, as it is, Gen. 10. 12. and 19. 13. Psal. 18. 15. and oft elsewhere. So them must be the People, or [illegible: 1 word]. But because the Comparing of this Branch of the Verse, with the former, Plantedst them, to which this Answers, and withthe following, they, makes it more than probable, that this them, belongs to the Fathers, this is to be otherwise rendred, Either, 1. Thus, send them out, to wit, free or Manumitted out of Egypt, of which this same Verb is used, Exod. 5. 1. and 12. 33. And then the foregoing People are the Egyptians, not the Canaanites. Which yet seems not to agree with the foregoing and following Passages, both which speak of the Canaanites onely, nor with the order of the Words in this Verse, it being improper to mention their coming out of Egypt, after their being planted in Canaan. Or rather, 2. Thus, make them send or shout forth, to wit, Branches, as it is more fully expressed, Psal. 80. 11. Ezek. 17. 6. Where this Verb is used. And this most Naturally and Properly, follows upon and after their Planting mentioned in the former Clause.

Marginal references: Exod. 15. 17▪ Psal. 78. 55. & 80. 8.