I have given him the land of Egypt [for] his labour wherewith he served against it, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord GOD.
Ver. 20. I have given him the land of Egypt.] As the great Turk gave his soldiers the rich spoil of Constantinople; a and as Tamerlane never forgot the good service of his servants, nor left the same long unrewarded, often saying that day to be lost wherein he had not given them something. b
Because they wrought for me.] By mine instinct, though beside their own intent.
a Turkish History, 345.
b Ibid., 227.