Ezekiel 39:3-4

Ezekiel 39:3-4

[3] And I will smite  thy bow  out of thy left  hand,  and will cause thine arrows  to fall  out of thy right  hand.  [4] Thou shalt fall  upon the mountains  of Israel,  thou, and all thy bands,  and the people  that is with thee: I will give  thee unto the ravenous  birds  of every sort,  and to the beasts  of the field  to be devoured. 

What does Ezekiel 39:3-4 Mean?

Contextual Meaning

The Lord promised to defeat Gog there; it would be as though He knocked his weapons out of his hands. Yahweh did not reveal whom He would use to do this or how He would do it, but Ezekiel 38:21 suggests that at least part of the defeat would be a result of Gog"s soldiers killing each another (cf. Judges 7:22). Gog and his army and allies would fall in the Promised Land, and birds and beasts would eat their corpses (cf. Ezekiel 39:17-20; Revelation 19:17-21). Such a fate was the ultimate indignity in the minds of the ancients (cf. 2 Kings 9:35).