Hesekiel 38:16

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Du skall draga upp mot mitt folk Israel och komma såsom ett moln för att övertäcka landet. I kommande dagar skall detta ske; jag skall då låta dig komma över mitt land, för att folken skola lära känna mig, när jag inför deras ögon bevisar mig helig på dig, du Gog.

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  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

as a cloud: Ezekiel 38:9

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. Ezekiel 38:8, Deuteronomy 31:29, Isaiah 2:2, Daniel 2:28, Daniel 10:14, Hosea 3:5, Micah 4:1, 1 Timothy 4:1, 2 Timothy 3:1

that the: Ezekiel 38:23, Ezekiel 36:23, Ezekiel 39:21, Exodus 14:4, 1 Samuel 17:45-47, 2 Kings 19:19, Psalms 83:17, Psalms 83:18, Daniel 3:24-29, Daniel 4:32-37, Daniel 6:15-27, Micah 7:15-17, Matthew 6:9, Matthew 6:10

Reciprocal: Numbers 20:13 - he was Judges 3:12 - and the Lord 1 Kings 11:23 - God 1 Chronicles 5:4 - Gog Isaiah 30:8 - the time to come Jeremiah 30:24 - in Jeremiah 49:39 - in the Ezekiel 30:25 - they shall know Ezekiel 38:17 - whom Ezekiel 39:7 - will I Ezekiel 39:27 - and am Daniel 8:23 - in the Malachi 1:5 - The Lord Hebrews 1:2 - these Hebrews 12:1 - a cloud Revelation 17:17 - until Revelation 20:9 - went

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And thou shall come up against my people of Israel,.... Which is repeated for the certainty of it; and not for his comfort, but his ruin; not to the terror of Israel, but for the glory of God:

as a cloud to cover the land; the land of Israel, so great should be his army; :-,

it shall be in the latter days; of the Gospel state, or kingdom of the Messiah, when the Jews shall be converted, and are returned to their own land, Hosea 3:5:

and I will bring thee against my land; not to possess it, nor to hurt it, or to any injury to the people of it: but

that the Heathen may know me; the Pagan kingdoms of China, and others; who by God's judgments on the Turks will come to the knowledge of the true God, and acknowledge him, and will become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ, Revelation 11:15:

when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes; that is, when God shall appear to be a holy and just God, in inflicting deserved punishment on the enemies of his people; when his omniscience and omnipotence, his power and faithfulness, and other perfections of his will be displayed, in fulfilling those prophecies concerning Gog or the Turks; infidels will be convinced of the truth of divine revelation; of the God of Israel being the true God; of Jesus being the Messiah; and of the Christian religion being of God, and shall profess the same. The, Targum is,

"that the people may know the vengeance of my power, when I shall be sanctified in thee, who shall see thy vengeance, O Gog.''

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I shall be sanctified in thee - I shall be shown to be holy and just in avenging Myself of Mine enemy.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 38:16. When I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog — By the defeat of his troops under Lysias, his general. 1Mac 3:32, 33, &c., and Ezekiel 6:6.