^8 (A)Surely it is coming, and it shall be done,” says the Lord God. “This is the day ^(B)of which I have spoken.

⁹ “Then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out and set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and bucklers, the bows and arrows, the ^[a]javelins and spears; and they will make fires with them for seven years. ¹⁰ They will not take wood from the field nor cut down any from the forests, because they will make fires with the weapons; ^(C)and they will plunder those who plundered them, and pillage those who pillaged them,” says the Lord God.

The Burial of Gog

¹¹ “It will come to pass in that day that I will give Gog a burial place there in Israel, the valley of those who pass by east of the sea; and it will obstruct travelers, because there they will bury Gog and all his multitude. Therefore they will call it the Valley of ^[b]Hamon Gog. ¹² For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them, ^(D)in order to cleanse the land. ¹³ Indeed all the people of the land will be burying, and they will gain ^(E)renown for it on the day that ^(F)I am glorified,” says the Lord God. ¹⁴ “They will set apart men regularly employed, with the help of ^[c]a search party, to pass through the land and bury those bodies remaining on the ground, in order ^(G)to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they will make a search. ¹⁵ The search party will pass through the land; and when anyone sees a man’s bone, he shall ^[d]set up a marker by it, till the buriers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon Gog. ¹⁶ The name of the city will also be ^[e]Hamonah. Thus they shall ^(H)cleanse the land.” ’