I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; and [place] shall not be found for them.
Ver. 10. I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt] Whither they fled for fear of the Babylonians, Jeremiah 44:12, and where it seems they became a mighty people, if that be true which Josephus writeth, viz. that Ptolemy Philadelphus sent back a hundred and twenty thousand of them into Judea, and by that royal beneficence obtained the seventy seniors to be sent by Eleazar, the high priest, for the translating of the Hebrew Bible into Greek. His successor, Ptolemy Lathurus, was nothing so courteous; for he slew thirty thousand of them with unheard of cruelty and made the living devour the dead.
And gather them out of Assyria] Whither the ten tribes were carried captive, and scattered all abroad through the one hundred twenty and seven provinces, as Haman suggested to the king, Esther 3:8 .
And I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon] That is, into Judea (the bound whereof were Libanus and Gilead), a figure of the Church, that land of delights. See Song of Solomon 4:1; Song of Solomon 4:8. God's Hephzibah, Isaiah 62:4. O praeclaram illam dieculam? when shall it once be? The comfort is, God can make a nation conceive and bring forth both in one day, Isaiah 66:8. O pray, pray, pray, as Psalms 14:7, and as the poor Jews pray at this day, "Let thy kingdom come speedily, and even in our days" (Bimherah bejamenu).