Ezekiel 39:2

And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:

I will turn thee back - (note, Ezekiel 38:4).

And leave but the sixth part of thee, [ shishee'tiykaa (H8338), from sheesh (H8336), six] - margin, 'strike thee with six plagues' (namely, pestilence, blood, overflowing rain, hailstones, fire, brimstone, Ezekiel 38:22); or 'draw thee back with an hook of six teeth' (Ezekiel 38:4, "I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws"), (Buxtorf) - the six teeth being those six plagues. Or, not from six, but from an Ethiopic root, 'lead thee about' (Ludovicus De Dieu, Gesenius, and the Septuagint), as Antiochus was led (to his ruin) to leave Egypt for an expedition against Palestine; so shall the last great enemy of God be led to leave his position, and undertake the fatal expedition against the Holy Land. But I prefer, 'I will mark thee with six:' six, in units, tens, and hundreds, is declared to be the number of "the beast," "six hundred threescore and six," 666, in Revelation 13:18 (Cocceius). The number six is that of the world given over to judgment. As among the Latins the term 'decimate' is used of almost utter annihilation, leaving only one-tenth - i:e., the smallest portion of the decimated person or host-so 'to reduce to a sixth' among the Hebrews.

And will cause thee to come up from the north parts - from the extreme north (Fairbairn). Thus Gog is shown to be probably identical with "the king of the north," who "shall enter into the glorious land," and "plant the tabernacles of his palaces between the seas in the glorious holy mountain" (Daniel 11:40-27; Daniel 11:45).