Ezekiel 38:1--39:20
Son <01121> [Son.]
turn <07760> [set.]
Gog <01463> [Gog.]
Rather, "Gog (the prince) of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal." By Magog is most probably meant the Scythians or Tartars, called so by Arabian and Syrian writers, and especially the Turks, who were originally natives of Tartary; and by Rosh, the Russians, descendants of the ancient inhabitants on the river Araxes or Rosh.
Magog <04031> [Magog.]
chief prince <07218 05387> [the chief prince of. or, prince of the chief of. Meshech.]
Gog <01463> [I am.]
turn ... around <07725> [I will turn.]
horses <05483> [horses.]
armed ............. armed <03847 08610> [all of them.]
armed <08610> [handling.]
Persia <06539> [Persia.]
Put <06316> [Libya. or, Phut.]
[Put.]
Gomer <01586> [Gomer.]
Togarmah <08425> [Togarmah.]
many days ....................... many <03117 07227> [many days.]
summoned <06485> [thou shalt be.]
land <0776> [into the land.]
mountains <02022> [the mountains.]
brought out <03318> [it is.]
living <03427> [and they shall.]
advance <05927> [shalt ascend.]
storm ....... cloud <07722 06051> [like.]
troops <0102> [all thy.]
day <03117> [that at.]
thoughts .......... devise ... evil <07451 04284 02803> [think an evil thought. or, conceive a mischievous purpose.]
invade <05927> [go up.]
advance ..... quietly <0935 08252> [go to.]
security <0983> [safely. or, confidently.]
loot ... plunder <07997 07998 0962 0957> [take a spoil, and to take a prey. Heb. spoil the spoil, and to prey the prey.]
attack <07725> [turn.]
ruins <02723> [the desolate.]
people <05971> [and upon.]
center <02872> [midst. Heb. navel.]
Sheba <07614> [Sheba.]
young warriors <03715> [with.]
day <03117> [in that.]
when ...... living <03427> [dwelleth.]
notice <03045> [shalt.]
place <04725> [thy place.]
many ................ vast <07227> [and many.]
cloud <06051> [as a cloud.]
latter <0319> [it shall be.]
Though it is not generally agreed what people or transactions are here predicted, yet it seems evident that the prophecy is not yet accomplished. Nothing occurred in the wars of Cambyses, or Antiochus Epiphanes with the Jews, that answers to it; and the expression here used, in the latter days, plainly implies that there should be a succession of many ages between the publication of the prediction and its accomplishment. It is therefore supposed, with much probability, that its fulfilment will be posterior to the conversion of the Jews and their restoration to their own land; and that the Turks, Tarters, or Scythians, from the northern parts of Asia, perhaps uniting with the inhabitants of some more southern regions, will make war upon the Jews and be cut off in a manner predicted here.
nations <01471> [that the.]
spoke <01696> [whom.]
by <03027> [by. Heb. the hands of.]
rage <02534> [that.]
zeal <07068> [in my.]
day <03117> [Surely.]
fish <01709> [the fishes.]
cliffs <04095> [steep places. or, towers, or stairs.]
call <07121> [I will.]
man's <0376> [every.]
judge <08199> [I will plead.]
plague <01698> [with pestilence.]
torrential <07857> [an overflowing.]
magnify <01431> [magnify.]
reveal ......... know <03045> [and I.]
son <01121> [son.]
Gog ................. Gog <01463> [Behold.]
chief prince ... Meshech ... Tubal <07218 05387 04902 08422> [the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.]
Or, "prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal."
turn ... around <07725> [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.
drag ... along .... lead ... up <08338 05927> [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.]
38:4. and will cause.
remotest parts .... north <03411 06828> [north parts. Heb. sides of the north.]
fall dead <05307> [fall.]
give <05414> [I will.]
kind <03671> [sort. Heb. wing. to be devoured. Heb. to devour.]
open field <07704 06440> [open field. Heb. face of the field.]
send <07971> [I will.]
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.
securely <0983> [carelessly. or, confidently.]
coastlands <0339> [in the isles.]
holy ................ holy <06944> [will I.]
profaned <02490> [and I will.]
nations <01471> [the heathen.]
Holy One <06918> [the Holy.]
coming <0935> [it is come.]
The prophet, seeing in vision the accomplishment of the prediction, speaks of it as already come and done.
day <03117> [this.]
go out <03318> [shall go.]
use ................. burn <01197> [and shall.]
use ................. burn <0784 01197> [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.
war clubs <03027> [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.
use ................. burn <0784 01197> [burn them with fire. or, make a fire of them.]
take the loot ..... looted <07997> [shall spoil.]
valley ................................ valley <01516> [the valley.]
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.
east <06926> [on the east.]
travel ............. travelers <05674> [noses. or, mouths. Hamon-gog. that is, The multitude of]
Gog.
cleanse <02891> [cleanse.]
memorial <08034> [a renown.]
day <03117> [the day.]
designate <0914> [they shall.]
continually <08548> [continual employment. Heb. continuance. to cleanse.]
<01129> [set. Heb. build.]
valley <01516> [in the.]
Hamonah <01997> [Hamonah. that is, The multitude. cleanse.]
says <0559> [Speak.]
bird <06833 03671> [every feathered fowl. Heb. the fowl of every wing. to my.]
slaughter ............ slaughter <02077 02076> [sacrifice. or, slaughter.]
eat <0398> [eat.]
goats <06260> [goats. Heb. great goats.]
bulls <06499> [of bullocks.]
fattened animals <04806> [fatlings.]
