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# Connecting Statement:
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Yahweh continues telling Ezekiel what he is to say to Gog.
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# Are you not the one ... bring you against them?
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Yahweh uses this question to emphasize that he was the one who brought Gog to the land of Israel. Alternate translation: "You are the one ... bring you against them." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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# of whom I spoke
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"that I spoke about"
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# in former days
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"in the past" or "a long time ago"
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# by the hand of my servants
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Here "hand" refers to the fact that these prophets wrote down Yahweh's message. Alternate translation: "by means of my servants" or "through my servants" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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# against them
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"against the people of Israel"
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