Verse 12
To take a spoil , &c. The Hebrew exhibits the Figure of speech Polyptoton ( App-6 ) = "To spoil a spoil and to prey a prey". Compare Psalms 83:4 , &c.
upon = against. A special various reading called Sevin ( App-34 ) reads "over".
People : i.e. Israel, as in Ezekiel 39:13 ; not in verses: Ezekiel 38:6 , Ezekiel 38:8 , Ezekiel 38:9 , Eze 6:15 , Eze 6:22 .
midst . Hebrew = navel . Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunet), App-6 , for the middle.
land = earth. Hebrew ' eretz . Compare Ezekiel 38:18 . Of which Palestine is in the centre, politically and morally, if not exactly geographically.
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