Matthew Poole and continuators on Micah 7:12

12 In that day also he shall come even to thee from Assyria , and from the fortified cities , and from the fortress even to the river , and from sea to sea , and from mountain to mountain .

After the Jews return out of Captivity, and Jerusalem rebuilt.

He who is of Jewish Race, and proselyted Gentile.

O Jerusalem seat of Gods solemn worship, Type of the Gospel Church, restored to thy promised Glory.

In which many Israelites were found Captives when the Babylonian Kingdom swallow'd up the Assyrian, and were continued in that servitude by the Babylonians till the Medes ▪ and Persians overthrew the Babylonians, and proclaimed a Release to all captive Jews, then from Assyria did captive Israel, i. e. some of them, go up to Jerusalem.

In which 'tis probable many Jews were kept for servile works, Salmaneser did place the captivity of the Ten Tribes in the cities of the Medes which for ought I know may be the cities here spoken of.

One mention'd for all the rest, and I suppose these fortresses might be frontier Garrisons made for defence of the countrey, where the Jews were in policy placed by the Assyrian, from these places and through all the Countrey

To Euphrates or Ch[illegible: 1 letter]bar where also were of the captive Jews

From the Caspian to the Persian and to the Midland Sea.

On which many of the dispersed Jewes did in all likelihood settle themselves in process of time for security and retirement, as the persecuted Waldenses and Albigenses settled in the Mountainous parts bordering on France, Savoy and Italy. Or from Mount Taurus to mount Libanus or Carmel. In brief from all parts of their captivity they shall return to their own Countrey, a singular Type of the Redemption of the Church by Christ, the bringing in the Gentiles, and enlarging the Messiah's Kingdom.

Marginal references: Or, even t[illegible: 1 letter].