Ezequiel 38:12

12 para tomar botín y para proceder al saqueo, para volver tu mano contra los lugares desolados, ahora poblados, y contra el pueblo reunido de entre las naciones, que ha adquirido ganado y posesiones, que habita en medio de la tierra."

Ezequiel 38:12 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 38:12

To take a spoil, and to take a prey
These are the words of Gog continued; suggesting that he should have no occasion to fight; should have nothing else to do but to seize upon the goods and plunder the substance of these people: to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited:
such as were before desolate, and had lain long so, but now peopled and cultivated; these he would attack and demolish, and make a spoil and prey of: and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations;
a description of the Jews, as before; ( Ezekiel 38:8 ) which have gotten cattle and goods;
so that it should seem that Gog or the Turks will not immediately attack the Jews upon their possession of the land of Judea; but some time after, when they have settled in it, and have acquired much wealth and riches in cattle and goods, and then think to have a fine booty of them: that dwell in the midst of the land;
or, "the navel of the land" ^F16; which may design Jerusalem, situated in the midst of the land of Israel, and so called the navel of it, as that is in the midst of the body; as Enna is said by Cicero to be the navel of Sicily: or, as Kimchi thinks, the land of Israel itself is meant; which is in the midst of the world, and so the navel of it; though the former seems best.

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FOOTNOTES:

F16 (Urah rwbj le) (epi ton omfalon thv ghv) , Sept.; "in [vel] super umbilico terrae", Pagninus, Montanus, Cocceius, Starckius.

Ezequiel 38:12 In-Context

10 "Así dice el Señor DIOS: 'Sucederá en aquel día que pensamientos vendrán a tu mente y concebirás un plan malvado,

11 y dirás: "Subiré contra una tierra indefensa . Iré contra los que viven tranquilos, que habitan confiados, que habitan todos ellos sin murallas, sin cerrojos ni puertas;

12 para tomar botín y para proceder al saqueo, para volver tu mano contra los lugares desolados, ahora poblados, y contra el pueblo reunido de entre las naciones, que ha adquirido ganado y posesiones, que habita en medio de la tierra."

13 'Sabá y Dedán, y los mercaderes de Tarsis con todos sus pueblos te dirán: "¿Has venido para tomar botín? ¿Has reunido tu compañía para saquear, para llevar plata y oro, para llevar ganado y posesiones, para tomar gran botín?'""

14 Por tanto, profetiza, hijo de hombre, y di a Gog: "Así dice el Señor DIOS: 'En aquel día cuando mi pueblo Israel habite seguro, ¿no lo sabrás tú?