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Ezekiel 38:7
7Say to Gog, “Prepare to fight! You must be ready to command all the armies that are with you.
Ezekiel 38:7 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
- New International Version (NIV)“ ‘Get ready; be prepared, you and all the hordes gathered about you, and take command of them.
- English Standard Version (ESV)"Be ready and keep ready, you and all your hosts that are assembled about you, and be a guard for them.
- New King James Version (NKJV)“Prepare yourself and be ready, you and all your companies that are gathered about you; and be a guard for them.
Context of Ezekiel 38:7
5Soldiers from Persia, Ethiopia and Libya will be there with your army. They all have shields and helmets. 6All the soldiers from Gomer will join you. An army from Beth Togarmah will also come with all its soldiers from far away in the north. So armies from many nations will be with you.” Say to Gog, “Prepare to fight! You must be ready to command all the armies that are with you. 8After many days you will have to bring your soldiers together to fight a battle. In the years at the end of time, you will go to attack the land of Israel. It will be a land that has become strong again after war. The people there will have returned from other nations. They will all be living safely in that land that had become heaps of stones. They will all be together on Israel's mountains. 9Then you will attack them. You, with your armies and all the people with you, will attack them like a great storm. You will be like a dark cloud that covers the land.
Read all of Ezekiel 38Ezekiel 38:7 word by word
הִכֹּן֙ וְהָכֵ֣ן לְךָ֔ אַתָּ֕ה וְכָל־קְהָלֶ֖ךָ הַנִּקְהָלִ֣ים עָלֶ֑יךָ וְהָיִ֥יתָ לָהֶ֖ם לְמִשְׁמָֽר׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Ezekiel 38:7
- 2 Chronicles 25:8The Lord will allow your enemies to win against you, even if you fight very well. God has the power to help you, but he can also cause your enemies to win against you.’
- Psalms 2:1Why are nations making plans to turn against the Lord? All their plans will fail!
- Isaiah 8:9You foreign nations must listen to this! Join together to fight. Shout as you go to battle. But you will never win! You people from countries that are far away, get ready for war. But you will be completely destroyed!
- Isaiah 37:22This is the Lord's reply. The Lord says this about King Sennacherib: “The holy people of Zion laugh at you! They think that you are useless. Yes, the people of Jerusalem shake their heads as you run away.
- Jeremiah 46:3‘Get ready to march to the battle! Pick up your shields and your weapons.
- Jeremiah 51:12Wave a flag and prepare to attack Babylon's city walls! Bring plenty of guards to watch all around the city. Put soldiers to catch anyone who tries to escape. Yes, the Lord will now do everything that he has decided. He will punish Babylon's people, as he said he would do.
- Joel 3:9Tell this news to the people in all the countries: Get ready for war! Shout to the soldiers. Make all the men who fight get ready to attack.
- Amos 4:12‘So I will send trouble to you Israelites again. Get ready! You will see it. Then you will know that I have come to judge you.
- Zechariah 14:2I will bring soldiers from all countries to fight against Jerusalem. They will go into the city and they will rob the houses. They will have sex with the women. They will lead away half the people to other countries. They will let the other half stay in Jerusalem.
Commentaries on Ezekiel 38:7
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7Spoken ironically. Make all thy preparations, they will be in vain.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-23In Ezekiel 37, the nation is reunited and lives in peace in its own land. In Ezekiel 38–39, this peaceful picture changes. A new danger appears. These chapters describe the attack, defeat, and removal of the final enemy, called Gog. Many readers have tried to identify Gog. Some have connected him with Gyges, king of Lydia, who ruled about 680 to 644 BC. However, the Gog described in the Bible goes beyond any one historical ruler. The text focuses less on…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. Irony. Prepare thee and all thine with all needful accoutrements for war--that ye may perish together. be ... a guard unto them--that is, if thou canst.Read the comment
In the dictionaries
Commentaries on Ezekiel 38
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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