Ezekiel 39:9

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7 ^aSo I will make My holy name known in the midst of My people Israel, and I will not let them ^bprofane My holy name anymore. ^cThen the nations shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel.

8 ^aSurely it is coming, and it shall be done,” says the Lord God. “This is the day ^bof 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, the¹ 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; ^aand 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 of¹ Hamon Gog.

12 For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them, ^ain order to cleanse the land.

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Barnes' Notes

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Burn them with fire - Or, "kindle fire with them;" or, as in the margin. The weapons of the army left on the field of battle shall be so numerous as to supply fuel for the people of the land for seven years. Seven was a number connected with cleansing after contact with the dead (Numbers 19:11 ff), and this purification of the land by the clearance of paganish spoils was a holy work (compare Ezekiel 39:12).

Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Ezekiel 39:9:

Psalms 140:7
Isaiah 9:5

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