Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
set . . . hand--take in hand the work. Therefore the coming restoration of the Jews is to be distinct from that after the Babylonish captivity, and yet to resemble it. The first restoration was literal, therefore so shall the second be; the latter, however, it is implied here, shall be much more universal than the former (Isaiah 43:5-7; Isaiah 49:12, Isaiah 49:17-18; Ezekiel 37:21; Hosea 3:5; Amos 9:14-15; Micah 4:6-7; Zephaniah 3:19-20; Zechariah 10:10; Jeremiah 23:8). As to the "remnant" destined by God to survive the judgments on the nation, compare Jeremiah 46:28.
Pathros--one of the three divisions of Egypt, Upper Egypt.
Cush--either Ethiopia, south of Egypt, now Abyssinia, or the southern parts of Arabia, along the Red Sea.
Elam--Persia, especially the southern part of it now called Susiana.
Shinar--Babylonian Mesopotamia, the plain between the Euphrates and the Tigris: in it Babel was begun (Genesis 10:10). In the Assyrian inscriptions RAWLINSON distinguishes three periods: (1) The Chaldean; from 2300 B.C. to 1500, in which falls Chedorlaomer (Gen. 14:1-17), called in the cuneiform characters Kudur of Hur, or Ur of the Chaldees, and described as the conqueror of Syria. The seat of the first Chaldean empire was in the south, towards the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates. (2) The Assyrian, down to 625 B.C. (3) The Babylonian, from 625 to 538 B.C., when Babylon was taken by the Persian Cyrus.
islands of . . . sea--the far western regions beyond the sea [JEROME].
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Genesis 10:5
Isaiah 11:9
Isaiah 20:6
Isaiah 27:13
Isaiah 50:2
Isaiah 51:11
Isaiah 55:11
Isaiah 65:8
Jeremiah 23:7-8
Jeremiah 44:1
Daniel 1:2
Hosea 11:10
Zephaniah 3:10
Zechariah 8:7
Zechariah 10:10
Revelation 16:12
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