Ezekiel 38:9

9 You will advance, coming on ¹like a storm. You will be ²like a cloud covering the land, you and all your ³hordes, and many peoples with you.

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 ready and keep ready, you and all your hosts that are assembled about you, and be a guard for them.

8 After many days you will be mustered. In the latter years you will go against the land that is restored from war, the land whose people were gathered from many peoples upon the mountains of Israel, which had been a continual waste. Its people were brought out from the peoples and now dwell securely, all of them.

9 You will advance, coming on like a storm. You will be like a cloud covering the land, you and all your hordes, and many peoples with you.

10 "Thus says the Lord GOD: On that day, thoughts will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil scheme

11 and say, 'I will go up against the land of unwalled villages. I will fall upon the quiet people who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having no bars or gates,'

Cross References

• 1. [Isaiah 28:2]
• 2. [Jeremiah 4:13]
• 3. [See ver. 6 above]