Matthew Poole and continuators on Zechariah 10:11

11 And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the scepter of Egypt shall depart away.

The former part of this verse might be read in the Praeter-perfect tense, reporting what God hath done, and perhaps more agreeably with the context and design, which is no doubt to confirm the promise, and make it credible though so many, and great difficulties render it unlikely to reason; I will saith God, verse 10. I promise who am he that hath past through the Sea, the Red Sea, and brought my people through, who hath done this can do what he now promiseth. I am he that dried up the deeps of Iordan, (when at deepest by the floods, which was then upon the River) I can remove obstacles were they as great as these, and as easily lay low the pride of Enemies, or remove their Scepters as I did to Assyria and Egypt, so the whole verse is an allusion to what God had done in the two famous deliverances of his people under the hand of Moses and Ioshua bringing them out of Egypt through the Read Sea, and through Iordan, and destroying the Egyptians, and delivering them out of Assyrian bondage, and in order thereto destroying that Kingdom.

Marginal references: [illegible: 1 word] Isa. 11.