Ezekiel 38:9

9 You, all of your troops, and many peoples with you will advance, coming like a thunderstorm; you will be like a cloud covering the land.

Ezekiel 38:9 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 38:9

Thou shall ascend and come like a storm
That comes suddenly, looks black and terrible, and causes darkness and horror; makes a great noise, and is very threatening of danger; signifying, that the Turks will come into the land of Judea suddenly to surprise it, and with great wrath and fury, and threaten them with utter destruction; so the king of the north is said to come like a whirlwind, which many interpret of the Turk also, ( Daniel 11:40 ) : thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land;
with darkness and distress; suggesting the vast number of his army, which should overspread the land of Judea, as it follows: thou and all thy bands, and many people with thee;
his own army should be very numerous, and this increased by his confederates, or such who will voluntarily join him in this expedition.

Ezekiel 38:9 In-Context

7 "Be prepared and get yourself ready, you and all your company who have been mobilized around you; you will be their guard.

8 After a long time you will be summoned. In the last years you will enter a land that has been restored from war and regathered from many peoples to the mountains of Israel, which had long been a ruin. They were brought out from the peoples, and all of them [now] live securely.

9 You, all of your troops, and many peoples with you will advance, coming like a thunderstorm; you will be like a cloud covering the land.

10 "This is what the Lord God says: On that day, thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.

11 You will say: I will go up against a land of open villages; I will come against a tranquil people who are living securely, all of them living without walls and without bars or gates-