エゼキエル書 39:17 JCB

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 39:17-22

Ezekiel 39:17-22. Thou son of man, speak unto every feathered fowl, &c. It was the custom of persons that offered sacrifice, to invite their friends to the feast that was made of the remainder: see Genesis 31:54; 1 Samuel 9:13. So here the prophet, by God’s command, invites the beasts and fowls to partake of the sacrifice of his enemies slain. The slaughter of God’s enemies is called a sacrifice, because it is offered up as an atonement to the divine justice: see the margin. A great... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 39:1-29

Destruction of the armies of Gog (39:1-29)Ezekiel repeats that God was the one who drew out the forces of Gog, his purpose being to destroy them (39:1-3). Their dead soldiers lie unburied in the fields, and their cities are in ashes (4-6). The terrible massacre helps people to see how frightening is the power of God when he acts in holy anger against evil (7-8).So great were the armies of Gog in size, that their weapons provide firewood for the people of Israel for the next seven years (9-10).... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Ezekiel 39:17

"And thou, son of man, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: speak unto the birds of every sort, and to every beast of the field. Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh and drink blood. Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan. And ye shall... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 39:17

Ezekiel 39:17. Speak unto every feathered fowl— It was the custom for persons who offered sacrifices to invite their friends to the feast, which was made of the remainder. So here the prophet, by God's command, invites the beasts and fowls to partake of the sacrifice of his enemies. Whoever compares Psalms 78:48. Deuteronomy 32:24. Hab 3:5 and Isa 34:7 must confess, that the prophet had all these passages in his eye: but at the same time, from a luxuriance of expression, he has both enlarged... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 39:17

17. ( :-). sacrifice—Anciently worshippers feasted on the sacrifices. The birds and beasts of prey are invited to the sacrificial feast provided by God (compare Isaiah 18:6; Isaiah 34:6; Zephaniah 1:7; Mark 9:49). Here this sacrifice holds only a subordinate place in the picture, and so is put last. Not only shall their bones lie long unburied, but they shall be stripped of the flesh by beasts and birds of prey. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ezekiel 39:17-18

The Lord also instructed Ezekiel to prophesy to the birds and beasts to come and feast on the flesh of the invaders who had died (cf. Ezekiel 39:4; Isaiah 34:6; Jeremiah 46:10; Zephaniah 1:7-8; Revelation 19:17-21). It would be like eating a great sacrifice for them, but those offered as sacrifices to the Lord would be great people of the earth rather than fat rams, lambs, goats, and bulls. Bashan, to the east of the Jordan River, consistently produced fat cattle because there was so much good... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ezekiel 39:17-24

The ignominious end of the enemy 39:17-24This message expands on one event that will take place at the end of the invasion (cf. Ezekiel 39:4). read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 39:1-29

2. Leave but the sixth part of thee] RV ’lead thee on.’6. Isles] RM ’coastlands.’ God will not only destroy the army of Gog in Palestine, but will extend His judgments into the lands from which Gog and his allies have come. 8. It is come.. it is done] RV ’it cometh.. it shall be done.’9. Set on fire] RV ’make fires of.’ Burn them with fire] RV ’make fires of them’: so in Ezekiel 39:10. 11. There of graves] RV ’for burial.’Valley of the passengers] RV ’valley of them that pass through.’ Others... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Ezekiel 39:17

(17) Every feathered fowl.—Compare Ezekiel 39:4, also Ezekiel 17:23; Ezekiel 29:5. The birds and beasts of all kinds represent all nations.A great sacrifice.—The representation of a destructive judgment upon the Lord’s enemies as a sacrifice is found also in Isaiah 34:6; Jeremiah 46:10. The figure is not to be pushed beyond the single point for which it is used—“to fill out and heighten the description of an immense slaughter.” read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Ezekiel 39:1-29

Ezekiel 39:23 A thoroughly immoral man could not know anything at all! To know a thing, what we can call knowing, a man must first love the thing, sympathize with it; that is, be virtuously related to it. If he have not the justice to put down his own selfishness at every turn, the courage to stand by the dangerous line at every turn, how shall he know? His virtues, all of them, will lie recorded in his knowledge. Nature, with her truth, remains to the bad, to the. selfish, and the... read more