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Ezekiel 39 - Introduction

Resumption of the prophecy against Gog

(1) Ezekiel 39:1. Renewal of the prophecy: Gog shall be broken on the mountains of Israel by a divine interposition.

(2) Ezekiel 39:8. For seven years the wood of his weapons shall suffice the people for fuel. It will take seven months to bury his dead. His burial-place shall be beyond the Jordan, east of the Dead Sea; and the land shall be carefully purified of every bone of his host.

(3) Ezekiel 39:16. Jehovah invites the fowls of the heaven and the beasts of the earth to a great feast, a sacrificial meal which he shall slay for them. They shall eat the flesh of princes and mighty men, be sated with fat and drunk with blood. And this interposition of Jehovah to protect his restored and now righteous people shall teach the nations that Israel's former expulsion from the land was due to their iniquity.

(4) Ezekiel 39:25. The prophet, abandoning the point of view of Gog's invasion in the future, occupied by him in these two Chapter s, returns to the position he occupied in predicting Israel's restoration (ch. 33 37), which he prophesies anew.

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See also Ezekiel 39 - Introduction in other biblical comments:

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