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“Then the people in the towns of Israel will go out and pick up your small and large shields, bows and arrows, javelins and spears, and they will use them for fuel. There will be enough to last them seven years! 10 They won’t need to cut wood from the fields or forests, for these weapons will give them all the fuel they need. They will plunder those who planned to plunder them, and they will rob those who planned to rob them, says the Sovereign Lord.

11 “And I will make a vast graveyard for Gog and his hordes in the Valley of the Travelers, east of the Dead Sea.[a] It will block the way of those who travel there, and they will change the name of the place to the Valley of Gog’s Hordes. 12 It will take seven months for the people of Israel to bury the bodies and cleanse the land. 13 Everyone in Israel will help, for it will be a glorious victory for Israel when I demonstrate my glory on that day, says the Sovereign Lord.

14 “After seven months, teams of men will be appointed to search the land for skeletons to bury, so the land will be made clean again. 15 Whenever bones are found, a marker will be set up so the burial crews will take them to be buried in the Valley of Gog’s Hordes. 16 (There will be a town there named Hamonah, which means ‘horde.’) And so the land will finally be cleansed.

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  1. 39:11 Hebrew the sea.

“Then those who inhabit the cities of Israel will (A)go out and make (B)fires with the weapons and burn them, both [a]bucklers and shields, bows and arrows, war clubs and spears, and for seven years they will make fires of them. 10 They will not take wood from the field or gather firewood from the forests, because they will make fires with the weapons; and they will take the spoils of those who plundered them and seize the (C)plunder of those who plundered them,” declares the Lord God.

11 “On that day I will give Gog a burial place there in Israel, the valley of those who pass by east of the sea, and it will block the way of those who would pass by. So they will bury Gog there with all his horde, and they will call it the Valley of [b]Hamon-gog. 12 For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them in order to (D)cleanse the land. 13 And all the people of the land will bury them; and it will be [c]to their (E)renown on the day that I (F)appear in My glory,” declares the Lord God. 14 “They will also select men who will constantly pass through the land, (G)burying those who were passing through, those left on the surface of the ground, in order to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they will conduct a search. 15 As those who pass through the land pass through and anyone sees a human bone, then he will [d]set up a marker by it until the burial detail has buried it in the Valley of [e]Hamon-gog. 16 And even the name of the city will be Hamonah. So they will cleanse the land.”’

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 39:9 I.e., small shields
  2. Ezekiel 39:11 Or the multitude of Gog
  3. Ezekiel 39:13 Or a memorial for them
  4. Ezekiel 39:15 Lit build
  5. Ezekiel 39:15 Or the multitude of Gog