Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 38:9

9 Thou shalt ascend and come up like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands , and many people with thee.

Sometimes such phrase declares duty, and is preceptive, but here it declares the event, and is predictive, Gog wi[illegible: 1 letter]l, tho' he should not.

The Hebrew might be read thus, Thou shalt ascend as a storm, thou shalt come as a cloud. This storm is violent with confused tumultuous noises, and with devastation, as the word implieth; and come, as a Cloud that is, as dark, as large, and as inevitable, and which continueth the violent waving storm.

Gog, and his bands shall be a storm, that over-spreads the whole Land.

Troops, or Wings.

Many in number, great in courage, and strength.