Text: Ezekiel 38:2
OT Text Referred to: Ezekiel 27:10
Subject: identity of Gog and his militia
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): None
Significance: Ezekiel 38:5 lists Persia (פָּרַס, Paras), Cush, and Put among Gog's allies—the same peoples who served as mercenary soldiers in Tyre's army in Ezekiel 27:10. In the Tyre oracle, these nations were "men of war" (אַנְשֵׁי מִלְחָמָה, anshey milchamah) who hung shield and helmet in Tyre for commercial benefit; in the Gog oracle, they are re-enlisted for eschatological warfare against Israel. This inner-Ezekiel recycling of the same military forces shows the prophet constructing Gog's coalition from familiar geopolitical actors, now redirected from serving a doomed commercial empire to mounting the final assault on God's restored people.