At that time Jerusalem shall be called the thrown of the Lord: and all the nations shall be gathered together to it, in the name of the Lord to Jerusalem, and they shall not walk after the perversity of their most wicked heart.

“Here he sets down the response to those recalled: and first, that of the two tribes, promising them restoration of the homeland: one, concerning the city, because they had been scattered, or because not all had returned. Ezekiel 36: "For I will take you from among the nations, and gather you out of all the lands, and bring you into your own land." And the reintegration of justice in the amendment of the prelates: "and I will give you shepherds according to my own heart, and they will feed you with knowledge — as to faith — with doctrine — as to morals." Isaiah 1: "I will restore your judges as they were before, and your counselors as of old." Third, as regards the increase of glory, which he signifies from the forgetting of things past: "and when you have been multiplied (...) they will no longer say: the ark of the covenant of the Lord": as if for nothing they will reckon that in which you now glory: because the ark was hidden and was not found; as is said in 2 Maccabees 1. From the promise of things to come: "in that time they will call Jerusalem" — the whole of it — which was fulfilled in the fame for holiness in which it was held, as is said in 1 Maccabees 3. Ezekiel 43: "the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever." And as regards the enlargement of worship: "and all nations shall be gathered" — some from every nation: for they came from everywhere to pray in Jerusalem. Or it is understood of the conversion of the nations to the faith of Christ. Psalm 85: "All the nations you have made shall come, and shall worship before you, O Lord." Second, he sets down the conversion of the ten tribes: "in those days the house of Judah shall go to the house of Israel": because even of those who returned, they were joined to the two tribes. This is noted in what he says: "they will come together." Below, 50: "In those days, and at that time, says the Lord, the children of Israel will come, they themselves, and the children of Judah together, walking and weeping they will hasten, and will seek the Lord their God." Some, however, explain all this of the last times.”

“At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord,.... That is, the Gospel church, the heavenly Jerusalem, the Jerusalem above, that is free, and the mother of us all; which is Christ's kingdom, where he has his throne and subjects, and where he sits and reigns as King of saints; and where they yield a cheerful and ready subjection to him, signified by calling the church his throne: and all the nations shall be gathered unto it: which shows that Jerusalem, literally understood, cannot be meant, but the church of Christ; to which the Gentiles, being converted, should join themselves in great numbers in all nations, as they have done; and which will be more largely accomplished and verified in the latter day, Isa 2:2. to the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem; to name his name, to trust in his name, to call upon it, and to worship him in Jerusalem, in his church, and among his people; and so the Targum, "and all nations shall give themselves to worship in it the name of the Lord, in Jerusalem:'' neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart; for the Gospel being preached to all nations, according to Christ's commission, by the pastors he promises, and that being blessed to the turning of the Gentiles from their idols to serve the living God, they shall no more worship the gods they chose for themselves, and their evil hearts devised.”

“Jerusalem--the whole city, not merely the temple. As it has been the center of the Hebrew theocracy, so it shall be the point of attraction to the whole earth (Isa 2:2-4; Zac 2:10-11; Zac 14:16-21). throne of . . . Lord--The Shekinah, the symbol of God's peculiar nearness to Israel (Deu 4:7) shall be surpassed by the antitype, God's own throne in Jerusalem (Psa 2:6, Psa 2:8; Eze 34:23-24; Zac 2:5). imagination--rather, as Margin, "the obstinacy" or stubbornness.”