Ezekiel 39:12

And the house of Israel shall be burying them seven months, that they may cleanse the land.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.

In Context

11And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give to Gog a place for burial in Israel: the valley of those who pass through on the east of the sea. And it shall stop those who pass through, and they shall bury Gog and all his

13Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them, and it shall be to them a renown in the day that I shall be glorified, says lord LORD.

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Cross References

Numbers 19:14This is the law when a man dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.

Deuteronomy 21:23his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shall surely bury him the same day, for he who is hanged is accursed of God, that thou not defile thy land which LORD thy God gives thee for an inheritance.

Ezekiel 39:16And Hamonah shall also be the name of a city. Thus they shall cleanse the land.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 39:9-23

The Judgment of Gog. ( b. c. 585.) 8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord God ; this is the day whereof I have spoken. 9 And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years: 10 So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire:… Read the whole commentary →

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