Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
hiss for them—Keepers of bees by a whistle call them together. So Jehovah by the mere word of His call shall gather back to Palestine His scattered people (Zechariah 10:10; Isaiah 5:26; Ezekiel 36:11). The multitudes mentioned by JOSEPHUS [Wars of the Jews, 3:2], as peopling Galilee two hundred years after this time, were a pledge of the future more perfect fulfilment of the prophecy.
for I have redeemed them—namely, in My covenant purpose "redeemed" both temporally and spiritually.
as they have increased—in former times.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Zechariah 10:8:
Isaiah 5:26
Jeremiah 30:19
Micah 4:5
Zechariah 10:1
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