Ezekiel 37:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

See this explained Ezekiel 36:24. The children of Israel; the ten tribes, as well as Judah and Benjamin; at least, many of the ten tribes. Whither they be gone: the expression seems to look to them that were gone among the heathen by a voluntary peregrination, whether before the captivity or after it I will not conjecture; but it is likely enough to me, that among the Jews carried away, and among their children, there were some that were uneasy where they were against their wills, who would ramble and range over countries, hoping to fare better; and perhaps these wanderers may be the persons meant by this gone, where they are who walked thither, as the Hebrew. On every side; the wind was to come from the four coasts of heaven, Ezekiel 37:9, thereby telling us they should, as here, be gathered on every side.