Ezekiel 39:12

And the house of Israel shall bury them, that the land may be cleansed in the space of seven months.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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 that in that day I will give to Gog a place of renown, a tomb in Israel, the burial place of them that approach the sea: and they shall build round about the outlet of the valley, and there they shall bury Gog and all his multitude: and the place shall then be called the burial place of Gog.

13Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a place of renown in the day wherein it was glorified, saith the Lord.

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Cross References

Numbers 19:14And this is the law; if a man die in a house, everyone that goes into the house, and all things in the house, shall be unclean seven days.

Deuteronomy 21:23his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but ye shall by all means bury it in that day; for everyone that is hanged on a tree is cursed of God; and ye shall by no means defile the land which the Lord thy God gives thee for an inheritance.

Ezekiel 39:16For the name of the city shall be Burial place: so shall the land be cleansed.

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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