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In the fourth generation; in the end of the four hundred years mentioned Gen_15:13, a generation being at that time reckoned at one hundred years, or thereabouts. Or, in the fourth generation numbered from their going into Egypt, or from their leaving Canaan; which may possibly be implied by these words,
they shall come hither. So Caleb was the fourth from Judah, and Moses the fourth from Levi, and so doubtless many others.
The iniquity of the Amorites, i.e. of the people inhabiting Canaan. And the Amorites, one of those people, Gen_15:21, are here put for all the rest, as Gen_48:22 1Ki_21:26 2Ki_21:2 Amo_2:10, either because they were the greatest and stoutest of all, Amo_2:9, or because Abram dwelt among that people, Gen_13:18 14:13. All men’s sins are kept by God as in a book of remembrance, not one of them is lost; and as God exactly observes the number and measure of men’s sins, so he determines within himself how far and how long he will bear with sinful men or nations, and what shall be the period of his patience; and when that comes, their measure is full, and their destruction infallibly comes. See Jer_51:13 Mat_23:32 1Th_2:16.