“Then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out and (A)make fires of the weapons and burn them, shields and bucklers, bow and arrows, (B)clubs[a] and spears; and they will make fires of them for seven years, 10 so that they will not need to take wood out of the field or cut down any out of the forests, for (C)they will make their fires of the weapons. (D)They will seize the spoil of those who despoiled them, and plunder those who plundered them, declares the Lord God.

11 “On that day I will give to (E)Gog a place for burial in Israel, the Valley of the Travelers, east of the sea. It will block the travelers, for there Gog and all his multitude will be buried. It will be called the Valley of (F)Hamon-gog.[b] 12 For (G)seven months the house of Israel will be burying them, in order (H)to cleanse the land. 13 All the people of the land will bury them, and it will bring them renown on the day that (I)I show my glory, declares the Lord God. 14 They will set apart men to travel through the land regularly and bury those travelers remaining on the face of the land, so as (J)to cleanse it. At[c] the end of (K)seven months they will make their search. 15 And when these travel through the land and anyone sees a human bone, then he shall set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the Valley of (L)Hamon-gog. 16 (Hamonah[d] is also the name of the city.) Thus shall they cleanse the land.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 39:9 Or javelins
  2. Ezekiel 39:11 Hamon-gog means the multitude of Gog
  3. Ezekiel 39:14 Or Until
  4. Ezekiel 39:16 Hamonah means multitude

“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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Footnotes

  1. 39:11 Hebrew the sea.