Yehezkiel 39:9

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama

Pada masa itu segala orang isi negeri-negeri Israel akan keluar dan menyalakan api dan membakar habis akan segala alat senjata dan perisai dan selukung dan busur dan anak panah dan lembing dan tumbak; dibuatnya api itu tujuh tahun lamanya.

Parallel Translations

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Dan yang diam di kota-kota Israel akan keluar dan menyalakan api serta membakar semua perlengkapan senjata Gog, yaitu perisai kecil dan besar, busur dan panah, tongkat pemukul dan tombak, dan mereka membakarnya selama tujuh tahun.

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Dan yang diam di kota-kota Israel akan keluar dan menyalakan api serta membakar semua perlengkapan senjata Gog, yaitu perisai kecil dan besar, busur dan panah, tongkat pemukul dan tombak, dan mereka membakarnya selama tujuh tahun.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

shall go: Psalms 111:2, Psalms 111:3, Isaiah 66:24, Malachi 1:5

and shall: Ezekiel 39:10, Joshua 11:6, Psalms 46:9, Zechariah 9:10

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 considered, 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

Reciprocal: Joshua 11:9 - General 2 Samuel 1:27 - weapons 2 Samuel 22:35 - a bow 2 Chronicles 20:25 - it was so much Psalms 76:3 - There Jeremiah 51:56 - every Hosea 2:18 - I will break Zechariah 14:14 - and the

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth,.... Out of their houses into the streets, where Gog's soldiers will lie dead, and their armour by them; or rather out of their cities, where they dwelt safely, and where they kept themselves, and were secure from the enemy: these seem to be distinct from the militia of Israel, engaged in battle with Gog; these were the inhabitants that will stay at home, and yet share in the spoil and plunder; see

Psalms 68:12, these, after the battle is over, and the victory obtained, of which they will have information, will then march out without fear into the open fields and mountains, where the army of Gog will fall,

Ezekiel 39:4:

and shall set on fire and burn the weapons; the armour of Gog's army, which they shall find lie by the dead, or upon them; or which they that flee will cast away; these they shall gather together, and lay on a heap, and burn, as sometimes has been the practice of conquerors; or rather they shall take them to their own houses, and make fuel of them, and burn them, instead of wood out of the fields and forests, as the following verse shows:

both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows; which were the weapons that Gog and his associates used; see Ezekiel 38:4,

and the handstaves, and the spears; the "handstaves" were either half pikes or truncheons, as some think; or javelins, as others:

and they shall burn them with fire seven years; which some take to be a certain number for an uncertain, and others an hyperbolical expression; but when it is considered what a vast army this of Gog's will be, and what prodigious numbers of weapons of all sorts must be carried by them, and the little use of fire in those hot countries: it may be very well taken in a literal sense, and the meaning be, that so great will be the quantity of warlike weapons that will be found and gathered, that they will serve for fuel for the space of seven years.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Burn them with fire - Or, “kindle fire with them;” or, as in the margin. The weapons of the army left on the field of battle shall be so numerous as to supply fuel for the people of the land for seven years. Seven was a number connected with cleansing after contact with the dead (Numbers 19:11 ff), and this purification of the land by the clearance of paganish spoils was a holy work (compare Ezekiel 39:12).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 39:9. And shall set on fire - the weapons — The Israelites shall make bonfires and fuel of the weapons, tents, c., which the defeated Syrians shall leave behind them, as expressive of the joy which they shall feel for the destruction of their enemies and to keep up, in their culinary consumption, the memory of this great event.

They shall burn them with fire seven years — These may be figurative expressions, after the manner of the Asiatics, whose language abounds with such descriptions. They occur every where in the prophets. As to the number seven, it is only a certain for an indeterminate number. But as the slaughter was great, and the bows, arrows, quivers, shields, bucklers, handstaves, and spears were in vast multitudes, it must have taken a long time to gather them up in the different parts of the fields of battle, and the roads in which the Syrians had retreated, throwing away their arms as they proceeded; so there might have been a long time employed in collecting and burning them. And as all seem to have been doomed to the fire, there might have been some found at different intervals and burned, during the seven years here mentioned. Mariana, in his History of Spain, lib. xi., c. 24, says, that after the Spaniards had given that signal overthrow to the Saracens, A.D. 1212, they found such a vast quantity of lances, javelins, and such like, that they served them for four years for fuel. And probably these instruments obtained by the Israelites were used in general for culinary firewood, and might literally have served them for seven years; so that during that time they should take no wood out of the fields, nor out of the forests for the purpose of fuel, Ezekiel 39:10.