Furthermore, Exodus texts said that the Lord was glorified by the defeat of the Egyptians: "Thus will I make Pharaoh so obstinate that he will pursue them. Then I will receive glory through Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord: (Ex 14,4). Such a statement sounds very much like Ezekiel 39,13, which describes the victory as the day the Lord reveals his glory. To a first-time reader, the text of chapters 38 and 39 seems confused, and indeed there may have bveen revisions or additions to underline the meaning.. Its structure, however, seems clear: 38, 1-16, Gog's attack on Israel; 38, 17-23, God's war against Gog; 39,1-16, God's victory (39,1-3 is parallel to 38,1-6); 39,17-29, God's glory is revealed to all. Although based vaguely on historical characters (Gog seems based on the Lydian ruler Gyges; Magog, his hiomeland, was probably created to rhyme with Gog: Gomer is from the Cimmerians), the scene is transhistoriclal; it is an event that will happen at an unspecified future time.
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