John Gill, on Neh 9:25

“And they took strong cities and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods: cisterns made by others, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: and they ate, and were filled, and became fat, and abounded with delight in thy great goodness.”

“And they took strong cities,.... Such as, in an hyperbolical way, are said to be walled up to heaven, Deu 1:28 and a fat land; of a good and fruitful soil, abounding with all good things, Deu 8:7 and possessed houses full of all goods; ready built and furnished for them, both with good provisions and good furniture: wells digged; to supply them with water: vineyards, and olive yards, and fruit trees in abundance; which they planted not: and they did eat, and were filled, and became fat; in body, though in mind became wanton and wicked; they made their hearts fat, or stupid, as Aben Ezra interprets it, see Deu 32:15 and delighted themselves in thy great goodness; not in praising the Lord for it, and using it to his honour and glory, but indulged themselves to luxury and intemperance; though it may be understood of a lawful pleasure in the enjoyment of the great affluence they were brought into, which last agrees with what follows.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.