Amalekites dwell] Not in the Land of Canaan, but they so neerely border upon it, that they may hinder the Israelites passage into it, or be ill neighbours to them when they are in it; or they might be said to dwell there, if they lodged in their Tents, pitched in a convenient place, to withstand the passage of the Israelites. This is spoken for discouragement, to which end they tell some very great untruths, vers. 32, 33. and therefore we need not labour much, to make good these words.