Ezekiel 38:22

I will punish [MTY] you and your soldiers with plagues and murders [MTY]. And I will send down from the sky, on you and your troops that have come from many nations, huge amounts of rain and hail and burning sulfur.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.

In Context

21Gog, on all the mountains in the country that belongs to me I will cause your soldiers to fight against each other with their swords.

23By doing that, I will cause the people of many nations to know that I am very great and holy, and they will know that I, Yahweh, have the power to do the things that I say that I will do.’”

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Cross References

Genesis 19:24Then Yahweh caused fire and burning sulfur to fall down on Sodom and Gomorrah like rain.

Joshua 10:11As they fled in front of the Israeli army, Yahweh threw down huge hailstones from the sky. As a result, more of them died from hailstones falling on them than died as a result of the Israeli army killing them with swords.

Psalms 18:12Hailstones and flashes of lightning were around him; hail and burning coals fell from the sky.

Isaiah 28:17I will test you people of Jerusalem to find out if you will act justly and righteously like [MET] someone uses a plumb line to determine if a wall is straight and vertical. But because your agreement with Egypt to protect you was made by leaders lying to each other and deceiving each other, you will be defeated and taken away from your country by an army that will come against you like [MET] a flood.

Isaiah 30:30And Yahweh will enable us to hear him speaking powerfully/majestically. He will show us that he [SYN] is very powerful. We will see him [SYN] smash his enemies. Being very angry, he will descend with a big rainstorm and thunder and hail to punish them.

Jeremiah 25:31Even people in very remote places around the earth will hear him shouting, because he will say why he will judge and punish all the nations. He will cause the wicked people to be slaughtered with swords. That will surely happen because Yahweh has said it.’

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 38:15-23

The Judgment of Gog and Magog. ( b. c. 585.) 14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord God ; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it? 15 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army: 16 And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my… Read the whole commentary →

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