as well as Gomer with all its troops, and Beth-togarmah from the far north with all its troops—the many nations with you.
God puts hooks in His enemy's jaws before the trouble even comes, so His people need not be frightened. He foresees those who will attack His church and declares Himself against them, yet turns even their wrath to His praise and the glory of His own name.
AI summary
Commenting on Ezekiel 38:1-13
Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself,.... All warlike stores and provisions: this is ironically said; and suggests that he would do so, and yet all would be in vain, and to no purpose: thou and all thy company, that are assembled unto thee; or all thine armies, as the Targum, gathered out of his dominions, and made up of his auxiliaries and allies; let...
Gomer--the Celtic Cimmerians of Crim-Tartary. Togarmah--the Armenians of the Caucasus, south of Iberia.