Ezek. 39 God’s judgment upon Gog, Ezek. 39:1–7. The loss of the enemy denoted by the multitude of weapons burned by Israel, Ezek. 39:8–10. Gog’s burial in Haman-gog, Ezek. 39:11–16. The feast upon the slain proclaimed to the finals and beasts, Ezek. 39:17–20.

Turn thee back: see Ezek. 38:4; or else, when Gog or his assistants shall go into their countries to compose disorders risen since this enterprise was set on foot, they shall return to the rest of the confederates.

I will smite thy bow; make thy hand weak, not able to hold the bow, and thy heart faint, not daring to take it up again. What is said of the bow rendered useless, is to be understood of all other weapons of war.

Thou shalt fall; thy army shall be overthrown and slain. Thou, Gog himself the leader of this army, and all thy bands; thine own soldiers, the old trained soldiers. The people; the several nations that had joined in this enterprise with Gog.

See Ezek. 16:5, Ezek. 29:5, Ezek. 32:4.

I will send, by an unusual judgment from God, a fire; either civil dissensions, such as Egypt was consumed by, Ezek. 30:16; or else the destroying pestilence, which always carrieth with it a burning distemper or fever; or that fire and brimstone mentioned Ezek. 38:22.

In Ezek. 39:6, the judgments executed on Gog make God known in the midst of the heathen, here they make him known among his own people; in both glorious.

It, this prophecy, to be fulfilled in the destruction of Gog, the rescue of God’s people, and magnifying the name of God, is come; as sure as if already come; or, as if already done; nor shall it be too long ere, in effect, and fully, it shall be done.

Shall go forth, out of their houses and out of the cities, with joy to see and admire the great goodness of God towards them, and the greatness of his power against their enemies.

So, Heb. And, they shall not, &c. They shall take: this, as noted before, taken potentially, or speaking what they might, not what they eventually should do; such store of fuel from the weapons and utensils of war left by these Gogites, that the Jews will not need to go to the forests to cut down…

At that day; when God shall have destroyed this prince, and his formidable army. Give unto Gog; and to many of those who were with him, for some were given to the birds and beasts to be devoured, Ezek. 39:4.

Seven months shall the house of Israel, many of the house of Israel, some voluntarily, others by appointment, be burying of them; a little time would not suffice to bury so great multitude, make what haste they could.

All that dwell thereabout, or all that came out to resist and fight with this army. It shall be to them, the house of Israel, a renown; a commendation, matter of praise, that did, like men, bury the dead, who otherwise must have been all dung on the face of the earth, and the swelling hill rising…

They, the rulers in Israel, shall sever out, choose out men who shall make it their work. Passing through; to go up and down over the whole land, for many of Gog’s wounded, flying soldiers died in thickets, and by corners into which they crept, when they could go no further.

Order should be taken to inform travellers, if they lighted on any bone or bones of men, as they journeyed, that they were desired to set up some mark at them, that thereby the public officers appointed to gather and bury them might find and carry those bones to the common burying-place.

The city; either which is next to this common tomb of Gog, as most likely, or the city Jerusalem, whose people, delivered, sanctified, grateful, and magnified in the eyes of the nations by the wonderful mercy of their God, shall be called by way of eminence, The people, or Her people, Hamonah.

Speak; though they understand not thy word, yet speak. for they will understand my word, which shall go out with thine. Unto every feathered fowl; to all sorts of carnivorous birds, every kind of those that eat flesh.

In these two and the two following verses, God takes on him the person of one that makes a feast, invites his guests, and promiseth to satisfy them. Of the two former, the first is an enigmatical invitation, or an invitation in a riddle; the latter is the key to this character.

Eat fat; accounted best, and which shall here be plentiful. Till ye be full; none should fray them away, nor should any devour so much as to leave others hungry. My sacrifice: see Ezek. 39:17.

At my table; in the field where Gog, his princes, and army are slain, compared to a table. Horses put for horsemen, not common foot-soldiers. Chariots for the men that ride in them. Mighty men; see Ezek. 39:18.

I will set, I will advance and continue, my glory; the glory of power, justice, and wisdom against enemies, and of power, mercy, and faithfulness, with wisdom, toward his people. The heathen, among whom my name was evil spoken of; they eclipsed, but God will clear up his glory.

Shall know that I am the Lord: see Ezek. 34:31. From that day, from the day of Gog’s signal destruction, forward, while time shall be.

The sottish heathen thought meanly of the God of Israel, and reckoned they came into captivity because the people of some greater god had by the’ power of their god prevailed against Israel’s God and his people; but by this overthrow given to Gog, they shall see it was not impotence in Israel’s…

Whatever severity I have seemed to use, it was but according to their sins, yet less than their sins, in punishing and hiding my face from them.

Therefore; since my name, my power, and justice are vindicated, and the heathen see it was Israel’s iniquity brought them into captivity, and Israel knows this too. Now; from this time of Gog’s overthrow. Jacob; the seed of Jacob, here called by their father’s name.

After they have long suffered, and now shall suffer no longer; for it is enough my people know, and the heathen know, that I am the Lord. Borne their shame; reproach for their sins cast on them by the heathen, with great reflections on their God: this was part of the punishment of them all, and the…

When I have brought them: see the phrase Ezek. 28:25. The persons here are not the two tribes only, but the ten with them, as Ezek. 39:25. Out of their enemies’ lands; wherever they were, they were among enemies, out of their own country.

Know; on fullest experiences, and clearest evidences, see, acknowledge, and publish to each other. The Lord; the Mighty One, the just Judge, who determineth righteously between men and men, yea, between them and himself.

Neither will I hide my face: see Ezek. 39:23. I will not turn from them in displeasure. From them; from the whole house of Israel. This is no assurance to any pretender of great interest in God, who yet lives in sin.