A seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah. Scarcely, "the people of the two captivities" (Delitzsch), though no doubt many Israelites of the ten tribes did return with Zerubbabel (1 Chronicles 9:3; Ezra 2:2, Ezra 2:70; Ezra 3:1; Ezra 6:17; Ezra 8:35, etc.
). Rather, a mere pleonasm, as in Isaiah 9:8; Isaiah 10:21, Isaiah 10:22; Isaiah 27:6; Isaiah 29:23; Isaiah 40:27; Isaiah 41:8, etc. (see the comment on Isaiah 40:27). An inheritor of my mountains. The whole of Palestine is little more than a cluster of mountains.