Ezequiel 38:12

12 Despojarei, saquearei e voltarei a minha mão contra as ruínas reerguidas e contra o povo reunido dentre as nações, rico em gado e em bens, que vive na parte central do território’.^[a]

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 “Assim diz o Soberano, o SENHOR: Naquele dia virão pensamentos à sua cabeça e você maquinará um plano maligno.

11 Você dirá: ‘Invadirei uma terra de povoados; atacarei um povo pacífico e que de nada suspeita, onde todos moram em cidades sem muros, sem portas e sem trancas.

12 Despojarei, saquearei e voltarei a minha mão contra as ruínas reerguidas e contra o povo reunido dentre as nações, rico em gado e em bens, que vive na parte central do território’.

13 Sabá e Dedã e os mercadores de Társis e todos os seus povoados dirão a você: ‘Você veio para tomar despojos? Você reuniu essa multidão para saquear, levar embora prata e ouro, tomar o gado e os bens e apoderar-se de muitos despojos?’

14 “Por isso, filho do homem, profetize e diga a Gogue: Assim diz o Soberano, o SENHOR: Naquele dia, quando Israel, o meu povo, estiver vivendo em segurança, será que você não vai reparar nisso?

Footnotes

• [a] Hebraico: "no umbigo da terra."