The Aftermath of the Battle

⁹ “After all this happens, the people who live in the cities of Israel will be kindling fires for seven years, using small shields, large shields, bows, arrows, clubs, personal weapons, and spears to do so. ¹⁰ They won’t need to cut down trees from the fields nor gather firewood from the forests, because they will light fires with the weapons as they plunder the plunderers and loot the looters!” declares the Lord God. ¹¹ “When all of this happens, I’m going to set aside a grave site for Gog in Israel’s Traveler’s Valley,^[a] near the approach^[b] to the Dead Sea. She^[c] will block off everyone who tries to bypass it. There they will bury Gog, and rename the area ‘Valley of Gog’s Gang’.^{[d] 12} The house of Israel will be burying them for seven months in order to purify the land. ¹³ Everyone in the land will be involved in the burials, and this will serve as a reminder for them that I have glorified myself,” declares the Lord God. ¹⁴ “Men will be assigned to travel continuously throughout the land, exploring for seven full months as they go about burying the bodies that remain from the battle^[e] on the surface of the ground, so that the land may be sterilized. ¹⁵ As scouts go searching throughout the land, whenever they see someone’s bones, they will place a sign beside the remains until the remains have been buried in the Valley of Gog’s Gang. ¹⁶ They’ll also name the city that is there ‘Hamonah,’^[f] as they purify the land.”