Ezekiel 39
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Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:

I will It is probable that none of the invaders will escape: but perhaps the inhabitants of Magog in general are meant. The immense army of Gog, led forth against Israel, will almost empty his land; and the subsequent judgments of God upon those that remain at home, will reduce them to a sixth of the whole

Psalm 40:14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul …

Psalm 68:2 As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melts before …

Isaiah 37:29 Because your rage against me, and your tumult, is come up into my …

leave but the sixth part of thee. or, strike thee with six plagues; or, draw thee back with a hook of six teeth, as ch

Ezekiel 38:4 And I will turn you back, and put hooks into your jaws, and I will …

and will cause

Ezekiel 38:15 And you shall come from your place out of the north parts, you, and …

Daniel 11:40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: …

north parts [heb] sides of the north

And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years:

shall go

Psalm 111:2,3 The works of the LORD are great, sought out of all them that have …

Isaiah 66:24 And they shall go forth, and look on the carcasses of the men that …

Malachi 1:5 And your eyes shall see, and you shall say, The LORD will be magnified …

and shall

Ezekiel 39:10 So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down …

Joshua 11:6 And the LORD said to Joshua, Be not afraid because of them…

Psalm 46:9 He makes wars to cease to the end of the earth; he breaks the bow, …

Zechariah 9:10 And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, …

set on fire The language here employed seems to intimate that the army of Gog will be cut off by miracle, as that of Sennacherib; for the people are described as going forth, not to fight and conquer, but merely to gather the spoil, and to destroy the weapons of war, as no longer of use.

hand staves. or, javelins
and they When the immense number and destruction of the invaders are con- sidered, and also the little fuel comparatively which is necessary in warm climates, we may easily conceive of this being literally fulfilled.

burn them with fire. or, make a fire of them.

So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord GOD.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.

the valley Probably the valley near the Sea of Gennesaret, as the Targum renders, and so called because it was the great road by which the merchants and traders from Syria and other Eastern countries went in Egypt, Perhaps what is now called the plains of Haouran, south of Damascus.

on the east

Ezekiel 47:18 And the east side you shall measure from Hauran, and from Damascus, …

Numbers 34:11 And the coast shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side …

Luke 5:1 And it came to pass, that, as the people pressed on him to hear the …

John 6:1 After these things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee, which is the …

noses. or, mouths.
Hamon-gog.
that is, The multitude of Gog

Numbers 11:34 And he called the name of that place Kibrothhattaavah: because there …

And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.
Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamongog.
And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.
And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.
Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.

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Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward.
And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword.

the heathen

Ezekiel 36:18-23,36 Why I poured my fury on them for the blood that they had shed on …

2 Chronicles 7:21,22 And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every …

Jeremiah 22:8,9 And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every …

Jeremiah 40:2,3 And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said to him, The …

Lamentations 1:8 Jerusalem has grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that …

Lamentations 2:15-17 All that pass by clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their …

hid I

Ezekiel 39:29 Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured …

Deuteronomy 31:17,18 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will …

Deuteronomy 32:20 And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their …

Psalm 10:1 Why stand you afar off, O LORD? why hide you yourself in times of trouble?

Psalm 30:7 LORD, by your favor you have made my mountain to stand strong: you …

Isaiah 1:15 And when you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: …

Isaiah 8:17 And I will wait on the LORD, that hides his face from the house of …

Isaiah 59:2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and …

Isaiah 64:7 And there is none that calls on your name, that stirs up himself …

Jeremiah 33:5 They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it is to fill them with …

gave them

Leviticus 26:25 And I will bring a sword on you, that shall avenge the quarrel of …

Deuteronomy 32:30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, …

Judges 2:14 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he delivered …

Judges 3:8 Therefore the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold …

Psalm 106:41 And he gave them into the hand of the heathen; and they that hated …

Isaiah 42:24 Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the …

According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them.
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name;

Now will. The return of a few Jews from Babylon, and their continuance, increase, partial reformation, and prosperity, till the days of Christ, followed by their present long continued dispersion, under the frown of God, and destitute of his Spirit, could in no degree answer to these predictions, Hence we must conclude, that some future events, exactly suitable to them, shall yet take place relative to the nation of Israel.

Ezekiel 34:13 And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the …

Ezekiel 36:21,24 But I had pity for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned …

Isaiah 27:12,13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall beat off …

Isaiah 56:8 The Lord GOD, which gathers the outcasts of Israel said, Yet will …

Jeremiah 3:18 In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel…

Jeremiah 23:3 And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries where …

Jeremiah 30:3,10,18 For, see, the days come, said the LORD, that I will bring again the …

Jeremiah 31:3 The LORD has appeared of old to me, saying, Yes, I have loved you …

Jeremiah 32:37 Behold, I will gather them out of all countries, where I have driven …

Amos 9:14 And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and …

Romans 11:26-31 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come …

the whole

Ezekiel 20:40 For in my holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, …

Ezekiel 37:21,22 And say to them, Thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the …

Jeremiah 31:1 At the same time, said the LORD, will I be the God of all the families …

Hosea 1:11 Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered …

and will

Ezekiel 36:4-6,21-23 Therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; …

Joel 2:18 Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his people.

Zechariah 1:14 So the angel that communed with me said to me, Cry you, saying, Thus …

Zechariah 8:2 Thus said the LORD of hosts; I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, …

After that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid.
When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations;
Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there.
Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
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