Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I [am] against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: Ver. 1. _Prophesy against Gog._] Prophesy again against him, for my people's greater comfort. The Jews - noted ever to have been a light, se... [ Continue Reading ]
And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel: Ver. 2. _And I will turn thee back._] _Convertam vel conteram te._ _a_ See Ezekiel 38:3 . _ And leave but the sixth part of thee._... [ Continue Reading ]
_And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand._ Ver. 3. _And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand._] I will disarm thee. As Herodotus _a_ reporteth of Sennacherib and his Assyrians in Egypt, that their quivers, bow strings, and target... [ Continue Reading ]
Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that [is] with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and [to] the beasts of the field to be devoured. Ver. 4. _Thou shalt fall upon, the mountains of Israel._] Thither thou shalt come indee... [ Continue Reading ]
Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken [it], saith the Lord GOD. Ver. 5. _Thou shall fall upon the open field._] Heb., The face of the field, which thou shall dung with thy dead carcase.... [ Continue Reading ]
And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I [am] the LORD. Ver. 6. _And I will send a fire on Magog._] So God will one day on Rome, that _Radix omnium malorum_ root of all evil things. Rev 18:18-19 _ And among them that dwell carel... [ Continue Reading ]
So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not [let them] pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I [am] the LORD, the Holy One in Israel. Ver. 7. _I will not let them pollute my holy name._] As if I were less able to deliver my people, or... [ Continue Reading ]
Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this [is] the day whereof I have spoken. Ver. 8. _Behold, it is come, and it is done._] It is as good as done. So, "Babylon is fallen" - _i.e., _ It will fall certainly, quickly, utterly. _ This is the day._] _O dieculam illam!_ O that short... [ Continue Reading ]
And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years: Ver. 9. _And they that dwell._] Hyperbolical expres... [ Continue Reading ]
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 spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord GOD. Ver. 10. _So that they shall take no wood._] This must needs be h... [ Continue Reading ]
And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the [noses] of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call [it] The valley of Hamo... [ Continue Reading ]
And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land. Ver. 12. _And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them._] That is, a long while; like as the Reformed Churches were in rooting out Popery, those damnable doctrines, ceremonies, images, re... [ Continue Reading ]
_Yea, all the people of the land shall bury [them]; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD._ Ver. 13. _And it shall be to them a renown._] A monument or trophy of their triumph. When the Switzers, A.D. 1443, had vanquished the Thuricenses in battle, t... [ Continue Reading ]
And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search. Ver. 14. _And they shall sever out men of continual employment._] _Viros quotidian... [ Continue Reading ]
And the passengers [that] pass through the land, when [any] seeth a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamongog. Ver. 15. _Then shall he set up a sign by it._] A statue, pillar, or sepulchral monument, that the butlers may bury it. Oh tha... [ Continue Reading ]
And also the name of the city [shall be] Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land. Ver. 16. _And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah,_] _i.e., _ Multitude or tumult; and all to keep up the memory of that signal victory. Near unto the University of Cambridge, on the southeast side, there app... [ Continue Reading ]
And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, [even] a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, a... [ Continue Reading ]
Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan. Ver. 18. _Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty._] Whose flesh may he, perhaps, more delicate. _ And drink the blood._] Blood royal, o... [ Continue Reading ]
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. Ver. 19. _Of my sacrifice._] Or, Of my good cheer. So God calleth it, to show how well pleased he is with the destruction of his Church's enemies.... [ Continue Reading ]
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. Ver. 20. _With horses and chariots,_] _i.e., _ With men that ride on horses, and fight out of chariots.... [ Continue Reading ]
And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them. Ver. 21. _And all the heathen shall see my judgment._] Antiochus did so, and Maximinus the emperor, and other tyrants, when seized upon by such judgment... [ Continue Reading ]
So the house of Israel shall know that I [am] the LORD their God from that day and forward. Ver. 22. _From that day and forward._] Their experience shall breed confidence.... [ Continue Reading ]
And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword. Ver. 23. _And the heathen shall know._] They shall be convi... [ Continue Reading ]
According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them. Ver. 24. _According to their uncleanness._] I have not shown my sovereignty, or exercised tyranny towards them, but done them right.... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name; Ver. 25. _Now will I bring again._] Three things he here promiseth his people, notwithstanding all the sorrow, (1.) Effectual vocati... [ Continue Reading ]
After that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in their land, and none made [them] afraid. Ver. 26. _After that they have borne their shame._] Are become soundly ashamed of their sinful practices: _Hoc enim ingenium e... [ Continue Reading ]
When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations; Ver. 27. _And am sanctified in them,_] _i.e., _ Have fully shown my sanctity and majesty, both by their punishment and by their deliverance.... [ Continue Reading ]
Then shall they know that I [am] the LORD their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there. Ver. 28. _And have left none of them any more there._] Here the Jews triumph and say, When was... [ Continue Reading ]
_Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD._ Ver. 29. _Neither Will I hide my face any more from them._] They shall have beatiful vision and fruition for ever. See on Ezekiel 39:25 . _ For I have poured out my spiri... [ Continue Reading ]