And they came] Numbers 33:9. palme trees] Or, date trees. Which shoot up into a great height, and bring forth a sweet fruit: of this tree they have anciently taken Ensignes of victory, and to that the Spirit alludeth, Revelation 7:9. These twelve Wells, and seventie Palme trees, some compare, first, to the twelve Patriarchs, and seventy persons that went into Egypt: and then to the twelve Apostles, and seventie disciples, but that is no interpretation, or instruction of the Text, but a meere allusion onely.