Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 38:21
And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man’s sword shall be against his brother.
21. every man’s sword ] sign of a supernatural panic caused by Jehovah, Jdg 7:22; 1Sa 14:20. LXX. has read first clause: I will summon against him all terrors (i.e. a panic).
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 21. I will call for a sword against him] Meaning Judas Maccabeus, who defeated his army under Lysias, making a horrible carnage. – Martin. Cambyses had no wars in the mountains of Israel.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Call; summon and awaken.
A sword; my army, the people of Israel. Against him; Gog and his powers.
Throughout all my mountains; from all parts of the land, called here mountains, because it was full of mountains.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
21. every man’s sword . . . againsthis brotherI will destroy them partly by My people’s sword,partly by their swords being turned against one another (compare 2Ch20:23).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And I will call for a sword against him,…. That is, against Gog; or, as I would choose to render the words, “for I will call for a sword”, so the particle is rendered, Eze 38:19 and which Noldius u agrees to; and this gives a reason why there should be such a commotion in the land of Israel; because the Lord, who has the swords of princes at his command, will call for the Christian kings to come to the assistance of the Jews, and fight against the Turk: who will pursue him
throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord God; throughout the land of Israel, which is mountainous; and is called the Lord’s, because he hath chosen it for his people, given it to them, and now dwelt among them; and in all parts of it where the enemy is, the sword of the Jews, and of those princes that should come in to their assistance at the call of God, shall be sent against them, and cut them off: and not only so,
but every man’s sword shall be against his brother; as the swords of the Midianites were, Jud 7:22, and of the enemies of Jehoshaphat,
2Ch 20:22. The Turkish army will consist of a mixed people of many nations, who will quarrel among themselves, and destroy one another.
u Concordant. Ebr. Partic. p. 285, 286.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Eze 38:21. I will call for a sword Calmet himself confesses upon this verse, that we do not read in the history of Cambyses of any war which he maintained on the mountains of Israel. The Hebrews indeed, says he, were in no condition to resist him; and he farther allows ingenuously, that there is nothing in the history of this prince which can justify the execution of that part of the prediction which is at the end of the next verse.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Eze 38:21 And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man’s sword shall be against his brother.
Ver. 21. And I will call for a sword. ] Against Antiochus by the Maccabees; against the Turk and Pope by the Christian princes, Hunniades, Scanderbeg, Queen Elizabeth, the late and present kings of Sweden, the English and French forces in Flanders now before Gravelin, after Dunkirk and Bergen taken from the Spaniard. Certain it is, that ere long the beast and the false prophet shall be taken, and all the fowls of the heaven filled with the flesh of those kings and captains that fight against the gospel. Rev 19:19-21
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
every man’s. Hebrew. ish. App-14.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
I will: Eze 14:17, Psa 105:16
every: Jdg 7:22, 1Sa 14:20, 2Ch 20:23, Hag 2:22
Reciprocal: Deu 20:17 – thou shalt Deu 32:42 – make mine 2Ch 20:22 – to sing and to Psa 110:6 – fill Isa 19:2 – I will Isa 66:16 – General Jer 25:29 – I begin Eze 39:4 – fall Zec 14:13 – a great Mar 13:12 – General Rev 16:21 – there fell
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Eze 38:21. One means of bringing defeat to an unrighteous group is to cause its own members to attack each other. (See Jdg 7:22; Isa 19:2.)
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
Eze 38:21-22. And I will call Rather, But I will call, for a sword against him That is, when he has carried all before him for some time, I will at length raise up those who shall withstand him. Gods doing a thing is often expressed in Scripture by his speaking the word, and giving out his command. Thus he is said Psalm (Psa 105:16) to call for a dearth upon the land of Canaan. Throughout all my mountains Throughout all the land of Judea; for, as has been observed before, Judea being very mountainous, it is often in Scripture denominated the mountains of Israel, or, the mountains of the Lord. Every mans sword shall be against his brother God often destroys his enemies by intestine quarrels among themselves, and making them executioners of his judgments upon each other: see the margin. And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood Or, I will plead with him. God pleads with men by his judgments, which are a manifest token of the vengeance due to their sins. And I will rain upon him, &c., an overflowing rain, &c. I will as plainly show myself in the destruction of these my enemies, as when I discomfited the armies of the Canaanites and Philistines by tempests of thunder and hail, or when I consumed Sodom and Gomorrah by fire and brimstone from heaven. It is plain that the extraordinary circumstances mentioned in these verses remain to be accomplished on the future enemies of the Jews, when Gods people are reinstated in his favour. Bishop Newcome.
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
38:21 And I will call for a sword against him {o} throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man’s sword shall be against his brother.
(o) Against the people of God and Magog.