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You shall fall on the mountains of Israel, you, and all your hordes, and the peoples who are with you: I will give you to the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the animals of the field to be devoured.
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The Ultimate Disgrace
Commentators explain that being left unburied and devoured by wild animals was considered a dreadful calamity and a sign of ultimate disgrace. John Gill highlights that this was a known curse in the Old Testament and a fate feared even by non-Israelite cultures. This graphic end for Gog's army signifies the totality of God's righteous judgment.
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Ezekiel
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19th Century
Anglican
Unto the ravenous birds.— Compare the account of the destruction of Pharaoh in Ezekiel 29:4-5.
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
You shall fall upon the mountains of Israel Be slain, and his carcass lie there; so the Targum, "upon the mountains …
Presbyterian
The Lord will make the most careless and hardened transgressors know His holy name, either by His righteous anger, or by the riches of His mercy an…
