Matthew Poole and continuators on Hosea 1:11

11 Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together , and appoint themselves one head , and they shall come up out of the land : for great shall be the day of Jezreel .

In the type and history when the Babylo[illegible: 1 letter]i[illegible: 1 letter]h Captivity is dissolved, and the Captives are loosed.

The children of the two Tribes, who adhered to the house of David, who were carried Captives, but under promise of a Redemption from it.

Some of the ten Tribes who either went over to, and did incorporate with the Kingdom of Iudah, and so were carried captives with them, or some of the ten Tribes which the children of Iudah found in the Kingdom of Babylon, which having swallowed up the Assyrian Monarchy, and now the ten Tribes captives to their conquering sword. Thus in Type, but it is spiritually and mystically to be understood of the whole Israel of God, Iew and Gentile, redeem'd by, and converted to Christ, in the day of his power.

By the power of Go[illegible: 1 letter], [illegible: 1 letter]y the decree of Cyrus, by each other heartening one another to return; so the Type, in the Antitype shall be gather[illegible: 2 letters] together by the Spirit of God, the Preaching of the Go[illegible: 1 letter]pel▪ and mutual ins[illegible: 2 letters]u[illegible: 1 letter]tion, exhortation and encouragement[illegible: 1 letter] of each other.

Ze[illegible: 2 letters]bb[illegible: 1 letter]bel in Type, who was appointed by Cyrus, yet with full approbation of the people, putting themselves under his conduct, to carry them up to Ierusalem. But in the An[illegible: 4 letters]pe Christ appointed by the Father head of his Church, whom Believers heartily accepting, may in large sense be said to appoint to themselves.

Literally out of Babylon, spiritually out of Captivity of sin and Satan.

Good, joyous and comfortable.

Of the Seed, or people of God, the Son[illegible: 1 letter] of God once dispersed, but now gathered by the Gospel.

This verse without doubt hath in it both an Historical sense, and a Mystical or Spiritual sense, it looketh somewhat to the return out of the Babyloni[illegible: 1 letter]h Captivity, and to their setling in Canaan; But it looketh farther to a more glorious deliverance from a more miserable Captivity.

Marginal references: Isa. 11.13. Jer. 3.18. Ezek. 34 [illegible: 1 letter]3. and 37.16, 22.