Charles Ellicott Commentary Ezekiel 39:18

"Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan." — Ezekiel 39:18 (ASV)

Drink the blood of the princes.— In these verses there is a curious mingling of the figurative and the literal; thus the “princes” are immediately explained by the mention of the various sacrificial animals; and in Ezekiel 39:20 these are again interpreted as “horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war.” And when the figure is so far explained, it only leads to a literal sense which must yet be considered as itself only the symbol of something further. (Compare to Revelation 19:17-18.)