Hesekiel 38:12

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Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

take a spoil, and to take a prey: Heb. spoil the spoil, and to prey the prey, Ezekiel 29:19, *marg. Isaiah 10:6, Jeremiah 30:16

turn: Isaiah 1:24, Isaiah 1:25, Amos 1:8, Zechariah 13:7

the desolate: Ezekiel 36:33-35, Jeremiah 32:43, Jeremiah 32:44, Jeremiah 33:12, Jeremiah 33:13, Zechariah 1:12, Zechariah 1:17

and upon: Ezekiel 38:8, Zechariah 10:8-10

midst: Heb. navel, Judges 9:37, *marg.

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 5:4 - General Psalms 76:4 - mountains

Gill's Notes on the Bible

To take a spoil, and to take a prey,.... These are the words of Gog continued; suggesting that he should have no occasion to fight; should have nothing else to do but to seize upon the goods and plunder the substance of these people:

to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited: such as were before desolate, and had lain long so, but now peopled and cultivated; these he would attack and demolish, and make a spoil and prey of:

and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations; a description of the Jews, as before; Ezekiel 38:8

which have gotten cattle and goods; so that it should seem that Gog or the Turks will not immediately attack the Jews upon their possession of the land of Judea; but some time after, when they have settled in it, and have acquired much wealth and riches in cattle and goods, and then think to have a fine booty of them:

that dwell in the midst of the land; or, "the navel of the land" p; which may design Jerusalem, situated in the midst of the land of Israel, and so called the navel of it, as that is in the midst of the body; as Enna is said by Cicero to be the navel of Sicily: or, as Kimchi thinks, the land of Israel itself is meant; which is in the midst of the world, and so the navel of it; though the former seems best.

p על טבור הארץ επι τον ομφαλον της γης, Sept.; "in [vel] super umbilico terrae", Pagninus, Montanus, Cocceius, Starckius.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 38:12. To take a spoil - and a prey — When Antiochus took Jerusalem he gave the pillage of it to his soldiers, and spoiled the temple of its riches, which were immense. See Joseph. WAR, B. i. c. 1.