(KJV) Ezekiel 391

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⥃The Slaughter of Gog’s Armies

[1] Therefore, thou son2 of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold3, I [am] against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal4: [2] And I will5 turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee6, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts7, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel: [3] And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.8 [4] Thou shalt fall9 upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that [is] with thee: I will10 give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort11, and [to] the beasts of the field to be devoured12. [5] Thou shalt fall upon the open field13: for I have spoken [it], saith the Lord God. [6] And I will14 send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly15 in the isles16: and they shall know that I [am] the Lord. [7] So will I17 make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will18 not [let them] pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen19 shall know that I [am] the Lord, the Holy20 One in Israel.

[8] Behold, it is come21, and it is done, saith the Lord God; this22 [is] the day whereof I have spoken. [9] And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go23 forth, and shall24 set on fire25 and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they26 shall burn them with fire27 seven years: [10] 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 spoil28 those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord God.

[11] [¶]And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley29 of the passengers on the east30 of the sea: and it shall stop the [noses31] of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call [it] The valley of Hamon–gog32. [12] And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse33 the land. [13] Yea, all the people of the land shall bury [them]; and it shall be to them a renown34 the day35 that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord God. [14] And they shall36 sever out men of continual employment37, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse38 it: after the end of seven months shall they search. [15] And the passengers [that] pass through the land, when [any] seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set39 up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the40 valley of Hamon–gog. [16] And also the name of the city [shall be] Hamonah41. Thus shall they cleanse42 the land.

[17] [¶]And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God; Speak43 unto every feathered fowl44, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my45 sacrifice46 that I do sacrifice for you, [even] a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood. [18] Ye shall eat47 the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats48, of bullocks49, all of them fatlings50 of Bashan. [19] 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. [20] 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.51

⥃Israel to Be Restored

[21] And I will set52 my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my53 hand that I have laid upon them. [22] So the house of Israel shall know54 that I [am] the Lord their God from that day and forward.

[23] And the heathen55 shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I56 my face from them, and gave them57 into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword. [24] According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them.58 [25] Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Now will59 I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole60 house of Israel, and will61 be jealous for my holy name; [26] After that they have borne62 their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they63 dwelt safely in their land, and none made [them] afraid. [27] When I have64 brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and am65 sanctified in them in the sight of many nations; [28] Then shall they66 know that I [am] the Lord their God, which caused them67 to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have68 left none of them any more there. [29] Neither will I hide69 my face any more from them: for70 I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord God.

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  1. Ezek 39:1, God’s judgment upon Gog; Ezek 39:8, Israel’s victory; Ezek 39:11, Gog’s burial in Hamon–gog; Ezek 39:17, The feast of the fowls; Ezek 39:21, Israel having been plagued for their sins, Ezek 39:25. shall be gathered again with eternal favour. ↩

  2. Ezek 38:2-3 ↩

  3. Ezek 35:3; Nah 2:13, Nah 3:5 ↩

  4. Or, "prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal." Ezek 38:2 ↩

  5. 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. Ps 40:14, Ps 68:2; Isa 37:29 ↩

  6. or, strike thee with six plagues; or, draw thee back with a hook of six teeth, as Ezek 38:4. and will cause. Ezek 38:15; Dan 11:40 ↩

  7. Heb. sides of the north ↩

  8. Ezek 20:21-24; Ps 46:9, Ps 76:3; Jer 21:4-5; Hos 1:5 ↩

  9. Ezek 39:17-20, Ezek 38:21 ↩

  10. Ezek 32:4-5, Ezek 33:27; Isa 34:2-8; Jer 15:3; Rev 19:17-21 ↩

  11. Heb. wing ↩

  12. Heb. to devour ↩

  13. Heb. face of the field, Ezek 29:5, Ezek 32:4; Jer 8:2, Jer 22:19 ↩

  14. Some terrible judgment will destroy the countries whence the army of Gog was led forth, about the same time that the army itself shall be cut off. Ezek 30:8, Ezek 30:16, Ezek 38:19-22; Amos 1:4, Amos 1:7, Amos 1:10; Nah 1:6 ↩

  15. or, confidently, Ezek 38:11; Judg 18:7 ↩

  16. Ezek 38:6, Ezek 38:13; Ps 72:10; Isa 66:19; Jer 25:22; Zeph 2:11 ↩

  17. Ezek 39:22, Ezek 38:16, Ezek 38:23 ↩

  18. Ezek 20:9, Ezek 20:14, Ezek 20:39, Ezek 36:20-21, Ezek 36:36; Exod 20:7; Lev 18:21 ↩

  19. Ezek 38:16, Ezek 38:23 ↩

  20. Isa 12:6, Isa 43:3, Isa 43:14, Isa 55:5, Isa 60:9, Isa 60:14 ↩

  21. The prophet, seeing in vision the accomplishment of the prediction, speaks of it as already come and done. Ezek 7:2-10; Isa 33:10-12; Rev 16:17, Rev 21:6 ↩

  22. Ezek 38:17; 2Pet 3:8 ↩

  23. Ps 111:2-3; Isa 66:24; Mal 1:5 ↩

  24. Ezek 39:10; Josh 11:6; Ps 46:9; Zech 9:10 ↩

  25. 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 ↩

  26. When the immense number and destruction of the invaders are considered, and also the little fuel comparatively which is necessary in warm climates, we may easily conceive of this being literally fulfilled. ↩

  27. or, make a fire of them ↩

  28. Exod 3:22, Exod 12:36; Isa 14:2, Isa 33:1; Mic 5:8; Hab 3:8; Zeph 2:9-10; Matt 7:2; Rev 13:10, Rev 18:6 ↩

  29. Probably the valley near the Sea of Gennesareth, 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 into Egypt. Perhaps what is now called the plains of Haouran, south of Damascus. ↩

  30. Ezek 47:18; Num 34:11; Luke 5:1; John 6:1 ↩

  31. or, mouths ↩

  32. that is, The multitude of Gog, Num 11:34 *margin ↩

  33. Ezek 39:14, Ezek 39:16; Num 19:16; Deut 21:23 ↩

  34. Deut 26:19; Ps 149:6-9; Jer 33:9; Zeph 3:19-20; 1Pet 1:7 ↩

  35. Ezek 39:21-22, Ezek 28:22; Ps 126:2-3 ↩

  36. Num 19:11-19 ↩

  37. Heb. continuance ↩

  38. Ezek 39:12 ↩

  39. Heb. build, Luke 11:44 ↩

  40. Ezek 39:11 ↩

  41. that is, The multitude ↩

  42. Ezek 39:12 ↩

  43. Gen 31:54; 1Sam 9:13, 1Sam 16:3; Isa 56:9; Jer 12:9; Zeph 1:7; Rev 19:17-18 ↩

  44. Heb. the fowl of every wing ↩

  45. Ezek 39:4; 1Sam 17:46; Isa 18:6, Isa 34:6; Jer 46:10; Zeph 1:7 ↩

  46. or, slaughter ↩

  47. Ezek 29:5, Ezek 34:8; Rev 19:17-18, Rev 19:21 ↩

  48. Heb. great goats, Ezek 34:17 *marg. ↩

  49. Ps 68:30; Isa 34:7; Jer 50:11, Jer 50:27, Jer 51:40 ↩

  50. Deut 32:14; Ps 22:12; Amos 4:1 ↩

  51. Ezek 38:4; Ps 76:5-6; Hag 2:22; Rev 19:18 ↩

  52. Ezek 36:23, Ezek 38:16, Ezek 38:23; Exod 9:16, Exod 14:4; Isa 26:11, Isa 37:20; Mal 1:11 ↩

  53. Exod 7:4, Exod 8:19; 1Sam 5:7, 1Sam 5:11, 1Sam 6:9; Ps 32:4 ↩

  54. Ezek 39:7, Ezek 39:28, Ezek 28:26, Ezek 34:30; Ps 9:16; Jer 24:7, Jer 31:34; John 17:3; 1John 5:20 ↩

  55. Ezek 36:18-23, Ezek 36:36; 2Chr 7:21-22; Jer 22:8-9, Jer 40:2-3; Lam 1:8, Lam 2:15-17 ↩

  56. Ezek 39:29; Deut 31:17-18, Deut 32:20; Ps 10:1, Ps 30:7; Isa 1:15, Isa 8:17, Isa 59:2, Isa 64:7; Jer 33:5 ↩

  57. Lev 26:25; Deut 32:30; Judg 2:14, Judg 3:8; Ps 106:41; Isa 42:24 ↩

  58. Ezek 36:19; Lev 26:24; 2Kgs 17:7-23; Isa 1:20, Isa 3:11, Isa 59:17-18; Jer 2:17, Jer 2:19; Jer 4:18, Jer 5:25; Dan 9:5-10 ↩

  59. 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. Ezek 34:13, Ezek 36:21, Ezek 36:24; Isa 27:12-13, Isa 56:8; Jer 3:18, Jer 23:3, Jer 30:3, Jer 30:10, Jer 30:18; Jer 31:3, Jer 32:37; Amos 9:14; Rom 11:26-31 ↩

  60. Ezek 20:40, Ezek 37:21-22; Jer 31:1; Hos 1:11 ↩

  61. Ezek 36:4-6, Ezek 36:21-23; Joel 2:18; Zech 1:14, Zech 8:2 ↩

  62. Ezek 16:52, Ezek 16:57-58, Ezek 16:63, Ezek 32:25, Ezek 32:30; Ps 99:8; Jer 3:24-25, Jer 30:11; Dan 9:16 ↩

  63. Lev 26:5-6; Deut 28:47-48, Deut 32:14-15; 1Kgs 4:25; Mic 4:4 ↩

  64. Ezek 39:25, Ezek 28:25-26 ↩

  65. Ezek 39:13, Ezek 36:23-24, Ezek 38:16, Ezek 38:23; Lev 10:3; Isa 5:16 ↩

  66. Ezek 39:22, Ezek 34:30; Hos 2:20 ↩

  67. Heb. by my causing of them, etc. Ezek 39:23 ↩

  68. Deut 30:3-4; Neh 1:8-10; Isa 27:12; Amos 9:9; Rom 9:6-8, Rom 11:1-7 ↩

  69. Ezek 39:23-25, Ezek 37:26-27; Isa 45:17, Isa 54:8-10 ↩

  70. Ezek 36:25-27; Isa 32:15, Isa 44:3-5, Isa 59:20-21; Joel 2:28; Zech 12:10; Acts 2:17; Acts 2:18, Acts 2:33; 1John 3:24 ↩