Ezekiel 39:12

It will take the people of Israel seven months to bury them in order to make the country clean.

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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

11At that time I will give Gog a place to be buried in Israel, the Travelers' Valley, east of the Sea. People won't be able to travel through because all his army will be buried there. So it will be called the Valley of Gog's Army.

13Everyone in the country will be involved in burying them, and this will give them a good reputation when I reveal my glory, declares the Lord God.

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Cross References

Numbers 19:14The following regulation applies when a person dies in a tent. Everyone who comes into the tent and everyone who is already in the tent will be unclean for seven days.

Deuteronomy 21:23don't leave the body hanging there overnight. Make sure you bury the body the same day, because anyone who is hung is under God's curse. Don't defile the country that the Lord your God is giving you to own.

Ezekiel 39:16Even the town there will be named Hamonah. In this way they will make the country clean.

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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