Lexical16 min
Hooks in His Jaws: Yahweh as the Agent of Gog's Defeat (Ezekiel 38:7-23)
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.