Ezekiel 39:28 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Know; on fullest experiences, and clearest evidences, see, acknowledge, and publish to each other. The Lord; the Mighty One, the just Judge, who determineth righteously between men and men, yea, between them and himself. Their God; who, in covenant with their fathers, hath remembered it for the good of their children, who did assure them, that if they violated his covenant he would punish, and when they repented he would show mercy. Which caused; who by his own hand raised up enemies against, and then delivered them into the enemies hand, so sent them into a sad and long captivity. But I have gathered them; but now done more for them than when I brought them out of Babylon? whence the two tribes (yet not all of them, for some staid behind) and a few of the house of Israel returned; now the whole of the twelve tribes shall be gathered. Unto their own land; that country they so dearly loved, somewhat for their fathers sake, whose ancient seat it was, but more for the goodness of it, which flowed with milk and honey. Have left none: this recovery it seems shall be much more universal than the former in Zorobabel's time: as, coining out of Egypt, not a feeble person left behind; so nor here, if the words be to be literally explained. There; in the land of captivity, the enemies country.