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
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ezekiel 39:21-29
B. Restoration to the Promised Land 33:21-39:29"The concept of the land is particularly significant to the six messages [Ezekiel 33:21 to Ezekiel 39:29] delivered in that one night before the news of Jerusalem’s fall reached the exiles in Babylonia [cf. Ezekiel 33:21-22]. Since Jerusalem had fallen, would the land be lost to Israel (Ezekiel 33:21-33)? It was the false ’shepherds’ of Israel who had lost the land for Israel by leading the people astray from the truth. But the true ’shepherd,’ the... read more