Zechariah 10:9 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And I will sow them, &c.— When or though I have dispersed them among the nations, yet shall they remember me in far countries; and their children shall live and shall return. Houbigant. All this pertains to the last restoration of the Jews, which is adumbrated by the return of the Israelites from Egypt into Canaan. See Isaiah 11:11. Certain it is, says Bishop Chandler, that Israel's coming out of Egypt is often mentioned by the prophets, and always as the highest instance of God's interposition for their preservation. They also foretel other future deliverances, like that of Egypt, with a mighty hand and a stretched out arm, in the words of returning out of Egypt, because that was known to be a pattern of all miraculous escapes, for weighty ends of divine Providence. I will bring them again out of the land of Egypt, saith God; which could not be meant of the remnant after Nebuchadnezzar's desolation, that fled into Egypt, who were all to perish there, according to the prophesy of Jeremiah; but of the whole body of the Jews, who were to return from a captivity like that of Egypt, and in as wonderful a manner; and therefore Zechariah, keeping the figure of Egypt in view, speaks as if the Red Sea were to be again dried up for their passage: And he [Israel] shall pass through the sea with affliction; or, as the LXX read, the neck or strait of the Red Sea, &c. The expression occurs in Psalms 68:22 and in this proverbial sense St. Matthew seems to use the words, Matthew 2:15. Out of Egypt have I called my Son. See Chandler's defence, p. 217.