You will ascend. You will come like a storm. You will be like a cloud to cover the land, you, and all your hordes, and many peoples with you.”
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You will ascend. You will come like a storm. You will be like a cloud to cover the land, you, and all your hordes, and many peoples with you.”
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Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.
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And thou shalt ascend, thou shalt come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many peoples with thee.
Cross-references (9)
Passages linked to Ezekiel 38:9 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Isaiah 28:2 Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one. Like a storm of hail, a destroying storm, and like a storm of mighty waters overflowing, he will cast them down to the earth with his hand.
- Jeremiah 4:13 Behold, he will come up as clouds, and his chariots will be as the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! For we are ruined.
- Joel 2:2 A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, a great and strong people; there has never been the like, neither will there be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.
- Isaiah 25:4 For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.
- Ezekiel 38:16 You will come up against my people Israel, as a cloud to cover the land. It will happen in the latter days, that I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when I am sanctified in you, Gog, before their eyes.”
- Isaiah 8:9-10 Make an uproar, you peoples, and be broken in pieces! Listen, all you from far countries: dress for battle, and be shattered! Dress for battle, and be shattered! Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand, for God is with us.”
- Isaiah 21:1-2 The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land. A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media’s sighing.
- Ezekiel 13:11 Tell those who plaster it with whitewash that it will fall. There will be an overflowing shower; and you, great hailstones, will fall. A stormy wind will tear it.
- Daniel 11:40 “At the time of the end the king of the south will contend with him; and the king of the north will come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, with horsemen, and with many ships. He will enter into the countries, and will overflow and pass through.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Eze 38:9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a…
Eze 38:9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.
Ver. 9. Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm.] With great hurry and terror, but it shall soon blow over.
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Thou shalt be like a cloud.] Sed cito transibis.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Thou shalt: sometimes such phrase declares duty and is…
Thou shalt: sometimes such phrase declares duty and is perceptive, but here it declares the event and is predictive, Gog will, though he should not. The Hebrew might be read thus,
Thou shalt ascend as a storm, thou shalt come as a cloud. This storm is violent, with confused, tumultuous noises, and with devastation, as the word implieth; and come as a cloud, that is, as dark, as large, and as inevitable, and which continueth the violent waving storm.
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To cover the land; Gog and his bands shall be a storm that overspreads the whole land.
All thy bands; troops, or wings.
Many people; many in number, great in courage and strength.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Thus saith the Lord, it shall also come to…
Thus saith the Lord, it shall also come to pass,.... Who is the Lord God omniscient, and knows the thoughts of men's hearts afar off; which, though they are contingent and voluntary, yet certain to the foreknowledge of God; who knows them before they are conceived, and can foretell what they will be, and which come to pass accordingly: it is now above two thousand years ago since this was said, and as yet is not fulfilled, but certainly will be: that
at the same time shall things come into thy mind; when the Jews shall be in their own land, dwelling in great security; and when Gog or the Turk shall make preparation to disturb them, and shall enter into their land suddenly and furiously; many thoughts shall come into his mind, many schemes and devices, but not good ones:
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and thou shall think an evil thought; to do mischief to the Jews; to disturb their peace, to dispossess them of their land, and plunder their substance.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 9. Thou shalt ascend and come like a…
Verse 9. Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm] It is observable that Antiochus is thus spoken of by Daniel, Da 11:40: The king of the north - Antiochus, shall come against him (the king of the south is the king of Egypt) like a whirlwind.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain cloud to cover the land--with the multitude of thy…
cloud to cover the land--with the multitude of thy forces.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 9. like a storm] Cf. on the figure Isa_21:1;…
9. like a storm] Cf. on the figure Isa_21:1; Isa_28:2; Jer_4:13. The rapidity of the movements of Gog (Hos_8:1), and their destructiveness, as well as the infinite masses of his host (Num_22:5; Jdg_6:5) are expressed by the comparison with the storm and cloud.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Like a storm, and like a cloud. Gog"s invasion,…
Like a storm, and like a cloud. Gog"s invasion, his "ascension," or "going up" (compare the Greek term ajnabasiv for a military expedition), should be like a storm in its suddenness and violence, as in Eze_1:27, and like a cloud in its threatening aspect and overshadowing nearness. (see ver. 16; and comp. Jer_4:13) Taken together, the images suggest that Gog"s invasion should burst forth suddenly, rage violently, spread quickly, alarm greatly, but cease finally. Storms roar and crash, alarm and destroy, but do not continue. Clouds diffuse gloom and fear, but ultimately disperse.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 38:9 roll down on them like a storm: This…
38:9 roll down on them like a storm: This is reminiscent of the threatening imagery of ch 1, when God was Israel’s enemy. At that time, Israel looked to the surrounding rebellious nations for protection; this time, Israel would look to God for protection from the nations.
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