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39:6 \u201c\u2018And I will send fire against Magog and against those who dwell secure in the coastlands, and they shall know that I am the LORD.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In this version, not only will Gog\u2019s vast invading army be devastated on the mountains of Israel but also a second prong of divine destruction will be directed towards Gog\u2019s distant homeland and towards its allies or colonies (\u201cthe coastlands\u201d). It is worth noting that this entire vision of Israel\u2019s triumph over its enemies is quite different from anything in the other Prophets. The characteristic Prophetic vision is of Israel restored to its land and dwelling in peace and prosperity after the bitter experience of defeat and exile. Only Ezekiel imagines that the people again ensconced in its land and living in tranquillity will be assaulted by a fearsome invading power which, however, will be utterly destroyed. Perhaps Ezekiel, himself an exile who had witnessed the dominant forces of the Babylonian empire, and who also had in mind the earlier dominance of the Assyrians, could not easily conceive a simple peaceful national restoration. History was felt as a continuing cycle of violent imperial aggressions. In this prophetic version, an ultimate–virtually mythological–aggressor is drawn to the land of Israel where God will bring about his total destruction, at last making Israel genuinely secure. Through this scenario, all the nations of the earth finally \u201cshall know that I am the LORD.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

From: Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible<\/em>, vol. 2: Prophets, W. W. Norton & Co., 2019, ad loc. 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