Verse 2
2. And the people Literally, peoples; they of Babylon; heathen turned friends; Cyrus and authorities under him.
Bring them to their place They shall attend them to the land of Judea.
The house of Israel The Jews.
Possess them As converts from heathenism.
In the land of the Lord In the low sense, this means in Judea. But the prophecy sweeps, as usual, into the times of the Messiah, the spiritual realm of the Church.
Take them captives Into the true religion.
Shall rule over their oppressors Under laws and truths of the Messiah’s kingdom. There are here predicted exchanged conditions, external and internal. The chosen people and the other peoples change places, the Jews to their own land, with heathen in a willing sense subject to them; but the full accomplishment of the prophecy is to be fulfilled when the Church of Christ shall become prevalent in the earth.
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