Isa 66:14-16, Eze 38-39, Joe 3:8-16, Obd 18, Mic 5:8, 15 | TSK | STEP

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.

Re 20:8,9

Magog.

Ge 10:2; 1Ch 1:5

the chief prince of. or, prince of the chief of. Meshech.

27:13; 32:26; Isa 66:19

I am.

13:8; 29:3; 35:3; 39:1,2-10

I will turn.

29:4; 39:2; 2Ki 19:28; Isa 37:29

horses.

15; Da 11:40

all of them.

23:12

handling.

1Ch 12:8; 2Ch 25:5; Jer 46:9

Persia.

27:10

Libya. or, Phut.

30:5; Ge 10:6; 1Ch 1:8; Na 3:9

Put.

Gomer.

Ge 10:2; 1Ch 1:5

Togarmah.

27:14; Ge 10:3; 1Ch 1:6; Da 11:40

2Ch 25:8; Ps 2:1-4; Isa 8:9,10; 37:22; Jer 46:3-5,14-16; 51:12

Joe 3:9-12; Am 4:12; Zec 14:2,3

many days.

16; Ge 49:1; Nu 24:14; De 4:30; Jer 48:47; 49:39; Ho 3:3-5; Hab 2:3

thou shalt be.

Ex 20:5; Isa 24:22; 29:6; Jer 32:5; La 4:22

into the land.

12; 36:24-38; 37:21-28; 39:27-29; Isa 11:11-16; Jer 30:3,18; 32:37

Am 9:14,15

the mountains.

34:13; 36:1-8

it is.

1Pe 2:9

and they shall.

11; 28:26; 34:25-28; Jer 23:6; 33:16

shalt ascend.

13:11; Isa 21:1,2; 25:4; 28:2; Da 11:40

like.

16; Jer 4:13; Joe 2:2

all thy.

Isa 8:9,10

that at.

Ps 83:3,4; 139:2; Pr 19:21; Isa 10:7; Mr 7:21; Joh 13:2; Ac 5:3,9

Ac 8:22; 1Co 4:5

think an evil thought. or, conceive a mischievous purpose.

Ps 36:4; Pr 6:14,18; 12:2; Mic 2:1

go up.

Ex 15:9; Ps 10:9; Pr 1:11-16; Isa 37:24,25; Ro 3:15

go to.

Jud 18:7,27; Jer 49:31,32; Zec 2:4,5

safely. or, confidently.

8; Pr 3:29,30

take a spoil, and to take a prey. Heb. spoil the spoil, andto prey the prey.

29:19; *marg:

Isa 10:6; Jer 30:16

turn.

Isa 1:24,25; Am 1:8; Zec 13:7

the desolate.

36:33-35; Jer 32:43,44; 33:12,13; Zec 1:12,17

and upon.

8; Zec 10:8-10

midst. Heb. navel.

Jud 9:37; *marg:

Sheba.

27:12,15,20,22,23,25

with.

19:3-6; 32:2; Ps 57:4; Jer 50:17; 51:38; Na 2:11-13; Zec 11:3

in that.

Isa 4:1,2

dwelleth.

8,11; Jer 23:6; Zec 2:5,8

shalt.

37:28

thy place.

39:2; Da 11:40

and many.

4,6; Joe 3:2; Zep 3:8; Zec 12:2-4; 14:2,3; Re 16:14,16; 20:8

as a cloud.

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.

8; De 31:29; Isa 2:2; Da 2:28; 10:14; Ho 3:5; Mic 4:1; 1Ti 4:1

2Ti 3:1

that the.

23; 36:23; 39:21; Ex 14:4; 1Sa 17:45-47; 2Ki 19:19; Ps 83:17,18

Da 3:24-29; 4:32-37; 6:15-27; Mic 7:15-17; Mt 6:9,10

whom.

10,11,16; Ps 110:5,6; Isa 27:1; 34:1-6; 63:1-6; 66:15,16

Da 11:40-45; Joe 3:9-14; Zec 12:2-8; 14:1-21

by. Heb. the hands of.

that.

36:5,6; De 32:22; Ps 18:7,8; 89:46; Na 1:2; Heb 12:29

in my.

39:25; De 29:20; Isa 42:13; Joe 2:18; Zec 1:14

Surely.

Joe 3:16; Hag 2:6,7,21,22; Heb 12:26; Re 11:13; 16:18,20

the fishes.

Jer 4:23-26; Ho 4:3; Na 1:4-6; Zec 14:4,5; Re 6:12,13

steep places. or, towers, or stairs.

Isa 30:25; 2Co 10:4

I will.

14:17; Ps 105:16

every.

Jud 7:22; 1Sa 14:20; 2Ch 20:23; Hag 2:22

I will plead.

Isa 66:16; Jer 25:31; Zec 14:12-15

with pestilence.

5:17

an overflowing.

13:11; Ge 19:24; Ex 9:22-25; Jos 10:11; Ps 11:6; 18:12-14; 77:16-18

Isa 28:17; 29:6; 30:30-33; Mt 7:27; Re 16:21

magnify.

36:23

and I.

16; 37:28; 39:7,13,27; Ps 9:16; Re 15:3,4; 19:1-6

Ezekiel 39

1 God's judgment upon Gog.

8 Israel's victory.

11 Gog's burial in Hamon-gog.

17 The feast of the fowls.

21 Israel having been plagued for their sins,

25 shall be gathered again with eternal favour.

son.

38:2,3

Behold.

35:3; Na 2:13; 3:5

the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.Or, "prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal."

38:2

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.

Ps 40:14; 68:2; Isa 37:29

leave but the sixth part of thee. or, strike thee with sixplagues; or, draw thee back with a hook of six teeth, as ch. 38:4. and will cause.

38:15; Da 11:40

north parts. Heb. sides of the north.

20:21-24; Ps 46:9; 76:3; Jer 21:4,5; Ho 1:5

fall.

17-20; 38:21

I will.

32:4,5; 33:27; Isa 34:2-8; Jer 15:3; Re 19:17-21

sort. Heb. wing. to be devoured. Heb. to devour.

open field. Heb. face of the field.

29:5; 32:4; Jer 8:2; 22:19

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.

30:8,16; 38:19-22; Am 1:4,7,10; Na 1:6

carelessly. or, confidently.

38:11; Jud 18:7

in the isles.

38:6,13; Ps 72:10; Isa 66:19; Jer 25:22; Zep 2:11

will I.

22; 38:16,23

and I will.

20:9,14,39; 36:20,21,36; Ex 20:7; Le 18:21

the heathen.

38:16,23

the Holy.

Isa 12:6; 43:3,14; 55:5; 60:9,14

it is come.The prophet, seeing in vision the accomplishment of the prediction, speaks of it as already come and done.

7:2-10; Isa 33:10-12; Re 16:17; 21:6

this.

38:17; 2Pe 3:8

shall go.

Ps 111:2,3; Isa 66:24; Mal 1:5

and shall.

10; Jos 11:6; Ps 46:9; Zec 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.

shall spoil.

Ex 3:22; 12:36; Isa 14:2; 33:1; Mic 5:8; Hab 3:8; Zep 2:9,10; Mt 7:2

Re 13:10; 18:6

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.

on the east.

47:18; Nu 34:11; Lu 5:1; Joh 6:1

noses. or, mouths. Hamon-gog. that is, The multitude ofGog.

Nu 11:34; *margin

cleanse.

14,16; Nu 19:16; De 21:23

a renown.

De 26:19; Ps 149:6-9; Jer 33:9; Zep 3:19,20; 1Pe 1:7

the day.

21,22; 28:22; Ps 126:2,3

they shall.

Nu 19:11-19

continual employment. Heb. continuance. to cleanse.

set. Heb. build.

Lu 11:44

in the.

Hamonah. that is, The multitude. cleanse.

Speak.

Ge 31:54; 1Sa 9:13; 16:3; Isa 56:9; Jer 12:9; Zep 1:7; Re 19:17,18

every feathered fowl. Heb. the fowl of every wing. to my.

4; 1Sa 17:46; Isa 18:6; 34:6; Jer 46:10; Zep 1:7

sacrifice. or, slaughter.

eat.

29:5; 34:8; Re 19:17,18,21

goats. Heb. great goats.

34:17; *marg:

of bullocks.

Ps 68:30; Isa 34:7; Jer 50:11,27; 51:40

fatlings.

De 32:14; Ps 22:12; Am 4:1

38:4; Ps 76:5,6; Hag 2:22; Re 19:18

I will set.

36:23; 38:16,23; Ex 9:16; 14:4; Isa 26:11; 37:20; Mal 1:11

and my.

Ex 7:4; 8:19; 1Sa 5:7,11; 6:9; Ps 32:4

know.

7,28; 28:26; 34:30; Ps 9:16; Jer 24:7; 31:34; Joh 17:3; 1Jo 5:20

the heathen.

36:18-23,36; 2Ch 7:21,22; Jer 22:8,9; 40:2,3; La 1:8; 2:15-17

hid I.

29; De 31:17,18; 32:20; Ps 10:1; 30:7; Isa 1:15; 8:17; 59:2; 64:7

Jer 33:5

gave them.

Le 26:25; De 32:30; Jud 2:14; 3:8; Ps 106:41; Isa 42:24

36:19; Le 26:24; 2Ki 17:7-23; Isa 1:20; 3:11; 59:17,18; Jer 2:17,19

Jer 4:18; 5:25; Da 9:5-10

Now will.The return of a few Jews from Babylon, and their continuance, increase, partial reformation, and prosperity, till the days of Christ, followed by their present long continued dispersion, under the frown of God, and destitute of his Spirit, could in no degree answer to these predictions. Hence we must conclude, that some future events, exactly suitable to them, shall yet take place relative to the nation of Israel.

34:13; 36:21,24; Isa 27:12,13; 56:8; Jer 3:18; 23:3; 30:3,10,18

Jer 31:3; 32:37; Am 9:14; Ro 11:26-31

the whole.

20:40; 37:21,22; Jer 31:1; Ho 1:11

and will.

36:4-6,21-23; Joe 2:18; Zec 1:14; 8:2

they have borne.

16:52,57,58,63; 32:25,30; Ps 99:8; Jer 3:24,25; 30:11; Da 9:16

when they.

Le 26:5,6; De 28:47,48; 32:14,15; 1Ki 4:25; Mic 4:4

I have.

25; 28:25,26