Ezekiel 38:22

22 "With pestilence and with blood I will enter into ¹judgment with him; and I will rain on him and on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him, a torrential rain, with ²hailstones *, fire and brimstone.

Ezekiel 38:22 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 38:22

And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood,
&c.] Not only the sword of the Jews and the sword of Christian princes shall be drawn against him, and the sword of Gog's soldiers against one another; but the Lord himself would plead with him by his judgments, or take vengeance on him, as the Targum; and send a pestilence in his army, which should destroy vast numbers of it; as the army of Sennacherib was destroyed by one when before Jerusalem; and make a great slaughter among them by that and other judgments: and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people
that are with him, an overflowing rain;
a horrible tempest of divine wrath, ( Psalms 11:6 ) as he came into the land of Israel like a storm, so he shall be destroyed by one much more terrible: and great hailstones;
such as were cast upon the Canaanites, ( Joshua 10:11 ) and as there will be on men, the enemies of the church of God, at the pouring out of the seventh vial, ( Revelation 16:21 ) : fire and brimstone;
as God rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah, ( Genesis 19:24 ) , signifying that in like manner will God deal with those enemies of his people; so at the battle of Armageddon, which seems to be the same with this here, the beast and the false prophet will be taken alive, and cast into a lake of fire burning with brimstone, ( Revelation 19:20 ) , and to this rain or tempest of fire and brimstone upon Gog there is an allusion in ( Revelation 20:9 ) .

Ezekiel 38:22 In-Context

20 "The fish of the sea, the birds of the heavens, the beasts of the field, all the creeping things that creep on the earth, and all the men who are on the face of the earth will shake at My presence; the mountains also will be thrown down, the steep pathways will collapse and every wall will fall to the ground.

21 "I will call for a sword against him on all My mountains," declares the Lord GOD. "Every man's sword will be against his brother.

22 "With pestilence and with blood I will enter into judgment with him; and I will rain on him and on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him, a torrential rain, with hailstones , fire and brimstone.

23 "I will magnify Myself, sanctify Myself, and make Myself known in the sight of many nations; and they will know that I am the LORD ."'

Cross References

• 1. Isaiah 66:16; Jeremiah 25:31
• 2. Psalms 11:6; Psalms 18:12-14; Isaiah 28:17

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "an overflowing"