the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
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Ezekiel 38:1
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The word of the Lord came to me:
The word of the LORD came to me, saying,
And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
The word of the Lord came to me:
Now the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
The Lord spoke his word to me, saying,
And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
And the worde of the Lorde came vnto mee, saying,
And the word of the LORD came to me saying,
And the word of Yahweh came to me saying,
And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
The Lord said:
The word of Adonai came to me:
And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
The word of the Lord came to me. He said,
AND the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
The Lord spoke to me.
And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
And the Word of Jehovah was to me, saying,
And the worde of the LORDE came vnto me, sayenge:
And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:
And the word of ye Lord came vnto me, saying;
And the worde of the Lorde came vnto me, saying:
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
And the word of the Lord was maad to me,
And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
The word of the Lord came to me:
Now the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
This is another message that came to me from the Lord :
The Word of the Lord came to me saying,
The word of the Lord came to me:
And the word of Yahweh came unto me, saying:
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying:
God 's Message came to me: "Son of man, confront Gog from the country of Magog, head of Meshech and Tubal. Prophesy against him. Say, ‘ God , the Master, says: Be warned, Gog. I am against you, head of Meshech and Tubal. I'm going to turn you around, put hooks in your jaws, and drag you off with your whole army, your horses and riders in full armor—all those shields and bucklers and swords—fighting men armed to the teeth! Persia and Cush and Put will be in the ranks, also well-armed, as will Gomer and its army and Beth-togarmah out of the north with its army. Many nations will be with you!
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Reciprocal: Isaiah 11:14 - spoil Isaiah 24:21 - the Lord Zechariah 12:3 - in that Revelation 16:12 - that the Revelation 20:8 - Gog
Cross-References
There Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua; he married her and went in to her,
and she conceived and bore a son, and he called his name Er.
the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;
Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, Aze'kah,
And Ja'el came out to meet Sis'era, and said to him, "Turn aside, my lord, turn aside to me; have no fear." So he turned aside to her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug.
David departed from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam; and when his brothers and all his father's house heard it, they went down there to him.
And three of the thirty chief men went down, and came about harvest time to David at the cave of Adullam, when a band of Philistines was encamped in the valley of Reph'aim.
One day Eli'sha went on to Shunem, where a wealthy woman lived, who urged him to eat some food. So whenever he passed that way, he would turn in there to eat food.
Leave simpleness, and live, and walk in the way of insight."
He who walks with wise men becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And the word of the Lord came unto me,.... At the same time as the preceding prophecy did, as the copulative and shows; which predicts the restoration and conversion of the Jews; the union of their tribes under the King Messiah; and their settlement in their own land: and this respects some disturbance they should meet with upon it, for a short time, by a powerful enemy hereafter described:
saying; as follows:
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The last conflict of the world with God, and the complete overthrow of the former. This section Eze. 38–39 refers to times subsequent to the restoration of Israel. As the Church (the true Israel) waxes stronger and stronger, more distant nations will come into collision and must be overthrown before the triumph is complete. Some have thought that this prophecy is directed against the Scythians who had possession of Asia twenty-three years, and in the course of this time had overrun Syria, and had probably made their appearance in the holy land. But in this prophecy there is little distinctive of one nation. It is a gathering together of the enemies of Yahweh to make their last effort, and to be overthrown. The seer passes to the final struggle between Good and Evil, and the triumphant establishment of the divine rule. It is the same struggle which is depicted in the Book of Revelation Ezekiel 20:7-10, where John adopts words and phrases of Ezekiel.
There are four main divisions of this prophecy:
(1) Ezekiel 38:1-13, describing Gog’s march;
(2) Ezekiel 38:14-23, describing his punishment;
(3) Ezekiel 39:1-16, describing his ruin;
(4) Ezekiel 39:17-29, the issue of Gog’s ruin in Israel’s redemption and sanctification.
Each division is broken up like a poem into stanzas.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER XXXVIII
The sublime prophecy contained in this and the following
chapter relates to Israel's victory over Gog, and is very
obscure. It begins with representing a prodigious armarnent of
many nations combined together under the conduct of Gog, with
the intention of overwhelming the Jews, after having been for
some time resettled in their land subsequent to their return
from the Babylonish captivity, 1-9.
These enemies are farther represented as making themselves sure
of the spoil, 10-13.
But in this critical conjuncture when Israel, to all human
appearance, was about to be swallowed up by her enemies, God
most graciously appears, to execute by terrible judgments the
vengeance threatened against these formidable adversaries of
his people, 14-16.
The prophet, in terms borrowed from human passions, describes,
with awful emphasis, the fury of Jehovah as coming up to his
face; and the effects of it so dreadful, as to make all the
animate and inanimate creation tremble, and even to convulse
with terror the whole frame of nature, 17-23.
NOTES ON CHAP. XXXVIII
