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The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 39:21-29

God's revelation of himself a fount of blessing. Ignorance of God and strength of animal appetite are the two primal founts of ungodliness. Animal appetite is, in order of time, the first source of vice; but as the understanding opens to receive knowledge, this source of evil may be checked. To this end God deigns to make himself known. A clear vision of God is a strong antidote to evil propensity. Faith in God is the great regenerative principle. Therefore, through the procession of the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 39:21-29

God his own Interpreter. The final result of this great conflict between Gog and the people of Jehovah will prove to be that God's Name is hallowed as it never was before. There had been great misconstruction of his ways and mistake as to his purpose, but all should be made clear. I. GOD MUCH MISUNDERSTOOD . How seriously and sadly God has been and is misunderstood is seen in the facts that II. GOD IMPERFECTLY EXPLAINED . Many, indeed, have been the interpreters who... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 39:22

The house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God from that day forward . What should convince them of this would be their triumph and deliverance through Gog's annihilation. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 39:23-24

Sin and its consequences. I. THE DREADFUL EVIL OF SIN . Pain is a mystery, but sin is a darker mystery. We instinctively shrink from death as the last dread enemy, but death is not so great a foe as sin. We must go to the Bible for a revelation of sin in its extent and its depth. The Greeks were acute thinkers on most subjects connected with human experience, but they were singularly obtuse to moral distinctions. In the Bible we see a true mirror held up to the world's sin.... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 39:23-24

The Divine reason for Israel's captivity. Israel is in prophecy the representative of mankind, of the "new humanity" that God has redeemed to himself and appointed to everlasting life. In every dispensation, in all God's dealings with men, there has been the manifestation of wisdom. Nothing that God has done has been done without a purpose, an intention. Faith convinces us of this. And Scripture sometimes, as in this passage, gives us an insight into the Divine counsels, and points out to... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 39:28-24

And the heathen shall know . The special lesson for them should be not so much teaching concerning God's supremacy over them, or concerning their relation to Israel, as concerning the principles of God's dealings with Israel. They should learn that if Israel had for a season been abandoned to the sword and driven into exile, it was not because of Jehovah's inability to protect them, but because of their wickedness which had caused him to hide his face from them—an expression which in Ezekiel... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 39:17-29

The purposes of the past dispensation shall be made clear to God’s people themselves and to the pagan. His judgments were the consequence of their sins; and these sins once abandoned, the favor of their God will return in yet more abundance.Ezekiel 39:29Compare Acts 2:17. Peter distinctly appropriates these prophecies (marginal references) to the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost, and the inauguration of the Church of Christ by that miraculous event. This was the beginning... read more

Joseph Benson

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

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 39:23

Ezekiel 39:23. And the heathen shall know, &c. The heathen nations shall be made sensible that my people were not carried away by their enemies because I wanted power to save them, but as a just punishment of their sins. Because they trespassed against me Committed sin with a high hand. Therefore hid I my face from them Withdrew my favour and protection; and gave them into the hand of their enemies Who could not have hurt them if they had not first forsaken me their God, and... 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

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