Ezekiel 39:13-20

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 39:8-22

Though this prophecy was to have its accomplishment in the latter days, yet it is here spoken of as if it were already accomplished, because it is certain (Ezek. 39:8): ?Behold it has come, and it is done; it is as sure to be done when the time shall come as if it were done already; this is the day whereof I have long and often spoken, and, though it has been long in coming, yet at length it has come.? Thus it was said unto John (Rev. 21:6), It is done. To represent the routing of the army of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 39:13

Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them ,.... That is, a great number of the common people of the land of Israel, especially of those that dwell near the field of battle, shall be employed in burying the slain; and which they will be very ready to do, for the reasons above mentioned: and it shall be to them a renown ; or, "for a name" F7 לשם "in nomen", Pagninus, Montanus, Piscator, Cocceius, Starckius. ; they shall be commended for their humanity to their enemies, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 39:14

And they shall sever out men of continual employment ,.... That is, the principal of the house of Israel, their magistrates and governors, shall select certain persons, to be daily employed in the following work, till ended: passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it ; these men will be appointed to go through the land of Israel, to gather up such carcasses and bones of dead men as remain anywhere after the seven... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 39:15

And the passengers that pass through the land ,.... Not along with the searchers, but that travel through it upon business in it, or in other lands: when any seeth a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it ; as he passes along, if he happens to see a human bone in the way, or hard by, he shall stop and lay a stone, or a heap of stones, by it, or some such mark or token, signifying that a man's bone lies there: till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamon-gog , that... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 39:16

And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah ,.... The name of the city nearest to this place, where Gog and his multitude shall be buried, shall be called Hamonah from thence, which signifies a multitude; or Polyandrion, as the Septuagint version, a place where many graves are; or perhaps a new city will be built near this place, and so called, to perpetuate the memory of it; or else, as Kimchi observes, Jerusalem will be so called, from the multitude of those that will be slain near it;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 39:17

And thou, son of man, thus saith the Lord God ,.... What the prophet is ordered by the Lord to say is to creatures not then in being, nor yet; and, were they, they could not understand his words; but however, when the time comes, partly by an instinct in nature, and partly by a particular direction of Providence, they will be gathered together upon so great a slaughter of men; for what follows, though mentioned in this place, will be between the slaughter of Gog's army, and the burial of it,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 39:18

Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty ,.... Of the soldiers, men of strength and courage, and fit for war, with which the army of Gog will abound: and drink the blood of the princes of the earth : both the princes of his own family and court, and those of his allies and auxiliaries that will come along with him: of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks ; which the Targum Jarchi, and Kimchi, interpret of kings, princes, dukes, rulers, and governors; and so does John, in the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 39:19

And ye shall eat fat till ye be full ,.... The fat of men; and such as before described generally are fat, and of which they shall have enough; and, though voracious creatures, shall eat to satiety: and drink blood till ye be drunken ; as men are with wine, who become mad with it; and so birds and beasts of prey grow fiercer by drinking blood: the meaning is, they should have their fill of the flesh, fat, and blood, of slain men: of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you ; the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 39:20

Thus shall ye be filled at my table with horses and chariots ,.... With the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, as John interprets it, Revelation 19:18 , and so the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions: and with the flesh of men that ride in chariots used in war; for chariots themselves cannot be eaten; and with these the birds and beasts of prey will be filled at the Lord's table, which he will furnish for them on the mountains of Israel, on the field of battle, where Gog... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 39:17

Gather yourselves - to my sacrifice - This is an allusion to a custom common in the east: when a sacrifice is made, the friends and neighbors of the party sacrificing are invited to come and feast on the sacrifice. read more

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