Zechariah 10:10

"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."

"Egypt... Assyria ..." These words here are used typically of the slavery and captivity of sin. The reference coming, as it did, centuries after God's people came out of Egypt, and ages after Assyria had fallen to the Babylonians, and the Babylonians to the Persians, could have none other than a figurative sense here.

Egypt is introduced as a type of the land of bondage, on account of its having been the land where Israel lived in the olden time under the oppression of the heathen world; and Ashur (Assyria) is introduced in the same way.[21]

McFadyen, and others, insist that Egypt and Assyria here refer to "the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt and the Seleucid dynasty of Syria";[22] but the Jews were never slaves to either dynasty.

The reference to the crossing of the Red Sea in the next verse, an event typical of the Christian's baptism into Christ, makes it sure that the passage is not focused upon fleshly Israel at all, but upon Christ and his kingdom.