Ezekiel 39:12

“‘“The house of Israel will be burying them for seven months, that they may cleanse the land.

World English Bible British with Deuterocanon

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

11“‘“It will happen 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 will stop those who pass through. They will bury Gog and all his multitude there, and they will call it ‘The valley of Hamon Gog’.

13Yes, all the people of the land will bury them; and they will become famous in the day that I will be glorified,” says the Lord GOD.

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Cross References

Numbers 19:14“This 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 on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of God. Don’t defile your land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance.

Ezekiel 39:16Hamonah will also be the name of a city. Thus they will 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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