The following verses in this chapter, I believe, were referenced to by Nephi in 1 Nephi 8:37-38. He said that after Lehi spoke about his dream, he exhorted them to listen to his words and he also prophesied many things, some of which I think are in this chapter.
Verse 2 in Chapter 10, is similar to Verse 38 in Chapter 8, but Nephi mentions the prophesy. After the Jews would be taken captive into Babylon (about 590 BC), they would return again to possess the land in the own due time of the Lord. this prophecy has had multiple fulfillments. I'm not sure how they came back, but at least in the time if Christ the Jews were in Jerusalem. But after Christ they have had many, many hardships. It seems that every nation in that area of the world had ruled over them, killed them, and expelled them.
However, in our day, we have seen that thousands of Jews migrated back to Jerusalem. I believe this to be another fulfillment of Lehi's (and probably other prophets' prophesy). The First Aliyah (literally ascent), or migration to Jerusalem was in 1881. They mostly came from Eastern Europe. Starting in 1904, 40,000 more Jews settled in Palestine. It was called the Second Aliyah. Then, in 1922, the League of Nations granted the United Kingdom the task of securing a location for the Jews to make a homeland. Then they really started to migrate. The Third Aliyah and the Fourth Aliyah brought 100,000 more Jews, starting in 1919 and 1924 respectively. The Fifth Aliyah, in the 1930s, consisted of a migration of more than 250,000 Jews. It was a result of the rise of Nazism. There was an Arab revolt from '36-'39 and this led the British to put a cap on immigration. With many other countries turning Jews away because of the Holocaust, the Jews had one more secret migration they called Aliyah Bet (the second letter of the Hebrew alphabet). For a nice synopsis of the history of Israel, and my resource for the information here, see the Wikipedia article of Israel.
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