Ezekiel 39:23
The nations will realize that the people of Israel were taken prisoner because of their sins, because they were unfaithful to me. So I gave up on them and handed them over to their enemies, so that they were all killed by the sword.
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22From that time on the people of Israel will know that I am the Lord their God.
24I dealt with them because of their uncleanness and sins, and I gave up on them.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 31:17Then I will abandon them and turn away from them, so they will be destroyed, and they will experience many disasters and problems. At that time they'll say, ‘We're suffering these disasters because our God has abandoned us!’
Deuteronomy 32:20He said: “I will turn away from them. Then I'll see what happens to them! They are a perverse people, unfaithful children.
Judges 2:14Because the Lord was angry with Israel he handed them over to invaders who plundered them. He sold them to their enemies all around—enemies they could no longer resist.
2 Chronicles 7:21This Temple that now is so respected will become so spoiled that passers-by will say, ‘Why has the Lord acted in such a way to this land and this Temple?’
Psalms 10:1Lord, why are you so distant? Why do you hide from me in times of trouble?
Psalms 106:41He handed them over to the heathen nations. These people who hated them now became their rulers.
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 39:9-23
The Judgment of Gog. ( b. c. 585.) 8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord God ; this is the day whereof I have spoken. 9 And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years: 10 So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire:… Read the whole commentary →