John Trapp on Amos 6:14

Verſe 14. But behold, I will raiſe up againſt you a nation, &c.] which ſhall be a cooler to your courage, a rebater to your ſwelth, a meanes to take you a link lower, and to ſtain the glory of your pride. I tell you not what a nation it is, that you may imagine the worſt: but you will finde their quiver is an open ſepulchre, they are all mighty men, and no leſſe mercileſſe, Jer. 5.16, 17.

and they ſhall afflict you (or cruſh you) from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of the wilderneſſe] from one end of your land to the other; that as ye have filled it from corner to corner with your uncleanneſſes Ezra. 9.11. ſo there may paſſe over it an overflowing ſcourge to waſh the foul face of it, as once the old world. Hamath was before noted to be Antiochia, which was one of the bounds of the land of Iſrael to the North-Eaſt.

the river of the wilderneſſe] is elſe where called the river of Egypt, as ſome will have it, See Num. 34.5, 8. Deut. 3.17. Ioſh. 13.3. and 15.47. 1 Chron. 13.35. where the wilderneſſe was Joel. 1.20. I cannot but concurr with Kimchi, who by the river of the valleys here, underſtandeth the dead ſea, comparing this text with 2 King. 14.25. & Deut. 3.17. It being common in Scripture to call lakes and great rivers by the name of Seas, Luke 5.1. with Num. 34.11.Joſephus. Galenus. The dead ſea alſo is in Humane Authours called the lake Aſphaltites the lake of Paleſtina, of Sodom, &c. It lieth to the South-weſt: and is elſewhere made the bound of the Promiſed land, Num. 34.3. Joſh. 15.2.