Ezekiel 39:4-20
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.]
