Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Zechariah 10:8-10
Zechariah 10:8-10. I will hiss for them Rather, whistle, as the word שׁרק should be here translated. I will call them from distant countries, as a shepherd calls his flock together with his whistle. For I have redeemed them For I have, and will, by the workings of my divine providence, deliver and redeem them out of their enemies’ hands, and from those who hold them captives. And they shall increase as they have increased Namely, in the most flourishing times, such as were the reigns... read more
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Zechariah 10:10
I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt - Individuals had fled to Egypt ; but here probably Egypt and Assyria stand, as of old, for the two great conflicting empires, between which Israel lay, at whose hands she had suffered, and who represent the countries which lay beyond them. Hosea unites (Hosea 11:10-11; Isaiah 11:15-16; add Isaiah 19:23-25; Isaiah 27:13; Isaiah 52:4; Micah 7:12. See ab. p. 96), “the West, Assyria, Egypt,” the three then known divisions of the world, Europe,... read more