Ezekiel 39:17-21 frames Gog's defeat as a sacrifice Yahweh himself officiates — a great zevach that deliberately inverts every element of the Levitical cult. Revelation 19 echoes LXX Ezekiel 39 directly and transforms the sacrifice into a supper, setting up the sharpest contrast in the entire book.
Three times in eight verses Ezekiel calls Gog's burial a Levitical cleansing — H2891 tahar, the Piel of the priests. The bone-marker is Numbers 19 corpse-defilement law at battlefield scale; the LXX confirms the priestly reading with G2511 kathariz?. Renown belongs to Israel, glory belongs to Yahweh, Gog gets neither.
Ezk 38:4's hook formula is verbatim Pharaoh's (Ezk 29:4). The Gog war is not Gog's. Yahweh hooks the hostile king, summons the cascade, and declares — in a hithpael that occurs nowhere else in the OT with him as subject — that he will magnify and sanctify himself.
Ezekiel 38:1–6 names a coalition. Eight of nine names trace cleanly to Genesis 10. The Hebrew morphology of rosh is a title in apposition, not a third territory. The 'uttermost north' is a compass bearing — Anatolia — not a code for a 21st-century bloodline. Read the way the prophet's first audience read.