Yǐsījiēshū 38:12

12 Wǒ qù yào qiǎng cái wéi lǔ wù , duó huò wèi lüè wù , fǎn shǒu gōngjī nà cóng qián huāngliáng , xiànzaì yǒu rén jūzhù zhī dì , yòu gōngjī nà zhù shìjiè zhōngjiān , cóng liè guó zhāo jù , dé le shēngchù cái huò de mín .

Yǐsījiēshū 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.

Yǐsījiēshū 38:12 In-Context

10 Zhǔ Yēhéhuá rúcǐ shuō , dào nàshí , nǐ xīn bì qǐ yìniàn , tú móu è jì ,

11 Shuō , wǒ yào shang nà wú chéngqiáng de xiāngcūn , wǒ yào dào nà ānjìng de mín nàli , tāmen dōu méiyǒu chéngqiáng , wú mén , wú shuān , ānrán jūzhù .

12 Wǒ qù yào qiǎng cái wéi lǔ wù , duó huò wèi lüè wù , fǎn shǒu gōngjī nà cóng qián huāngliáng , xiànzaì yǒu rén jūzhù zhī dì , yòu gōngjī nà zhù shìjiè zhōngjiān , cóng liè guó zhāo jù , dé le shēngchù cái huò de mín .

13 Shìbā rén , Dǐdàn rén , Tāshī de kè shāng , hé qí jiān de shào zhuàng shīzi dōu bì wèn nǐ shuō , nǐ lái yào qiǎng cái wèi lǔ wù ma . nǐ jùjí jūnduì yào duó huò wéi lüè wù ma ? yào duó qǔ jīn yín , lǔ qù shēngchù , cái huò ma . yào qiǎngduó xǔduō cáibǎo wéi lǔ wù ma ?

14 Rénzǐ a , nǐ yào yīncǐ fā yùyán , duì gē gé shuō , zhǔ Yēhéhuá rúcǐ shuō , dào wǒ mín Yǐsèliè ānrán jūzhù zhī rì , nǐ qǐbù zhīdào ma .