12. Restoration of the Jews from their dispersion, described under
the image of fruits shaken from trees and collected.
beat off--as fruit beaten off a tree with a stick
(De 24:20),
and then gathered.
river--Euphrates.
stream of Egypt--on the confines of Palestine and Egypt
(Nu 34:5;
Jos 15:4, 47),
now Wady-el-Arish, Jehovah's vineyard, Israel, extended
according to His purpose from the Nile to the Euphrates
(1Ki 4:21, 24;
Ps 72:8).
one by one--gathered most carefully, not merely as a nation, but as
individuals.
JFB.
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