John Trapp on Nehemiah 9:23

Verſe 23. Their children alſo multipliedſt thou] Judaea was not above two hundred miles long, and fifty miles broad (not near the halfe of England by much,) yet what a numerous people were they? what huge armies had they?

And broughteſt them into the land] Not the neareſt way, but the beſt for them; that he might humble them, and try them, and do them good in the latter end. If God will bring us to heaven at length, (as Iſrael in the wilderneſſe, ſo) muſt we follow him and the line of his Law, though it ſeeme to leade us in and out, backward and forward, as if we were treading a maze.

Concerning which thou hadſt promiſed to their fathers] And they diſpoſed of it by Will to their poſterity, as if they had been in preſent poſſeſſion. Gods promiſes are good ſure-hold: the Patriarchs would be buried there, though they died in Egypt, and keep poſſeſſion, as they could: for they knew that all was their own.