Ezekiel 39:11

And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog. I WILL GIVE UNTO GOG A PLACE THERE OF GRAVES IN ISRAEL. Gog only found a grave where he had expected the "spoils" of conquest (). THE VALLEY. So vast were to be the masses, that nothing but a deep valley would suffice for their corpses. OF THE PASSENGERS ON THE EAST OF THE SEA - the valley which is the route of those traveling on the high road, east of the Dead Sea, from Syria to Petra and Egypt. AND IT SHALL STOP [THE NOSES] OF THE PASSENGERS. The publicity of the road would caus...

11-22 How numerous the enemies which God destroyed for the defence of his people Israel! Times of great deliverances should be times of reformation. Every one should help the utmost he can, toward cleansing the land from reproach. Sin is an enemy every man should strive against. Those engaged in public work, especially of cleansing and reforming a land, ought to be men who will go through with what they undertake, who will be always employed. When good work is to be done, every one should further it. Having received special favours from God, let us cleanse ourselves from all evil. It is a work which will require persevering diligence, that search may be made into the secret recesses of sin. The judgments of the Lord, brought upon sin and sinners, are a sacrifice to the justice of God, and a feast to the faith and hope of God's people. See how evil pursues sinners, even after death. Afte...

Verse Ezekiel 39:11. _THE VALLEY OF THE PASSENGERS ON THE EAST OF THE SEA_] That is, of _Gennesareth_, according to the _Targum_. The valley near this lake or sea is called _the Valley of the Passengers_, because it was a great road by which the merchants and traders from Syria and other eastern countries went into Egypt; see Genesis 37:17; Genesis 37:25. See _Calmet_ here. _THERE SHALL THEY BURY GOG AND ALL HIS MULTITUDE_] Some read, "There shall they bury Gog, that is, all his multitude." Not Gog, or Antiochus himself, for he was not in this battle; but his _generals, captains_, and _soldiers_, by whom he was represented. As to _Hamon-gog_, we know

The prophet pictures to himself some imaginary valley (compare Zechariah 14:5) at the “east of the sea,” the Dead Sea, a place frightful in its physical character, and admonitory of past judgments. He calls it “the valley of the passengers” (or, passers-by), because they who there lie buried were but as a passing cloud. In Ezekiel 39:11 there is a play upon words - there were “passengers” to be buried, “passengers” to walk over their graves, “passengers” to bury them; (or, a play upon the treble meaning of passing in (invading), passing by, and passing through.) STOP THE NOSES - The word thus rendered occurs only once more in Scripture Deuteronomy

EXPOSITION Of the two main divisions of this chapter, the first (Ezekiel 39:1) depicts the greatness of the overthrow of Gog; the second (Ezekiel 39:21) records the impression made by it upon Both Israel and the heathen, and adds a closing promise to the former. EZEKIEL 39:1 In the first main division Ezekiel repeats the substance of what has already been advanced concerning the defeat of Gog (verses 1-8), after which he strives to represent its completeness (verses 9-20), by setting forth (1) the immense quantity of spoil Israel should obtain from the fallen foe (verses 9, 10). (2) the length of time it should take Israel t

AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS IN THAT DAY,.... When this destruction of the army of Gog shall be made: THAT I WILL GIVE UNTO GOG A PLACE THERE OF GRAVES IN ISRAEL; or, "a place there, a grave in Israel" b; he that thought to have subdued the whole land, and taken possession of it, shall have no more of it than just a place for a grave, to be buried in; a place fit for a grave, as the Targum; and where that will be is next observed: "the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea"; a valley through which travellers used to pass from Syria, Babylon, and other places, to Egypt and Arabia Felix, which lay east of the sea; not the Mediterranean sea, which lies west of Judea; but either the Dead sea, the sea of Sodom, a sulphurous lake, to which there may be an allusion, Revelation 19:20 or the sea of Chinnereth, or Genesareth, as the Targum, Jarchi, and K

GOG (_ See Scofield) - (Ezekiel 38:2). _...

Ezekiel 38:1; Ezekiel 39:1. There will be at that time of restoration a great and final invasion of the land of Israel. Gog and Magog will invade the land “that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people.” The invaders come “against the mountains of Israel which have always been waste; but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely, all of them.” In Ezekiel 38:11, the evil purpose of the invader is made known. From all this we learn that the invasion takes place at the time when the Lord has brought back His people and resumed His relationship with the remnant of Israel. The invasion will happen some time after the beastly empire with its beast head, the revived Roman e

To cleanse the holy land from the defilement caused by the corpses of these heathen hordes, the common people were to spend seven months in collecting and burying them, in a place appointed for that purpose east of the Dead Sea; and after that, to ensure the absolute holiness of the land, permanent officials were to be appointed to go through it scrupulously marking every spot where even a bone was found that it might be buried in the proper place, and the land cleansed of all defilement. (In Ezekiel 39:11 after place add, with LXX, of renown. For of them that pass through, read with different pointing of the Abarim, _i.e._ some valley at the N.E. corner of the Dead Sea. For it shall stop, etc. we should perhaps read, and they the Israelites shall close (the mouth of) the valley. Hamon means multitude. In Eze

IN. The 1611 edition of the Authorized Version reads "at". GRAVES. sepulture. Septuagint and Vulgate read "memorial for burial". SHALL STOP... PASSENGERS = obstruoteth, or arresteth, the passengers. Probably on account of its depth. HAMON. GOG. the multitude of Gog....