Ezekiel 39:9-16

Evangelical Heritage Version

⁹ Then those who live in the cities of Israel will go out and set the weapons on fire and burn the small shields and large shields, bows and arrows, clubs and spears. They will use them as firewood for seven years. ¹⁰ They will not take wood from the open country or gather it from the forests because they will use the weapons as firewood. They will loot those who looted them and plunder those who plundered them, declares the Lord God.

¹¹ On that day I will give Gog a burial place there in Israel, in the valley used by those who travel east toward the sea,^[a] and it will block the way for travelers. There they will bury Gog and all his horde and call it the Valley of Gog’s Horde. ¹² The house of Israel will spend seven months burying them in order to cleanse the land. ¹³ All the people of the land of Israel will join in burying them, and it will bring honor to them on that day when I display my glory, declares the Lord God. ¹⁴ In addition, they will assign men to work full-time, passing through the land together with others, to bury those who are left on the surface of the ground in order to cleanse it. At the end of seven months, they will still be searching. ¹⁵ Whenever those who pass through the land see a human bone, they will set up a marker beside it until the burial squad has buried it in the Valley of Gog’s Horde. ¹⁶ So the name of a city there will be Hamonah.^[b] In this way they will cleanse the land.