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Ezekiel 39:11
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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.  
13 Indeed all the people of the land will be burying, and they will gain arenown for it on the day that bI am glorified,” says the Lord God.  
14 “They will set apart men regularly employed, with the help of1 a search party, to pass through the land and bury those bodies remaining on the ground, in order ato cleanse it. At the end of seven months they will make a search.  
15 The search party will pass through the land; and when anyone sees a man’s bone, he shall1 set up a marker by it, till the buriers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon Gog.  
16 The name of the city will also be1 Hamonah. Thus they shall acleanse the land.” ’  

A Triumphant Festival

17 “And as for you, son of man, thus says the Lord God, a‘Speak to every sort of bird and to every beast of the field:
b“Assemble yourselves and come;
Gather together from all sides to My csacrificial meal
Which I am sacrificing for you,
A great sacrificial meal don the mountains of Israel,
That you may eat flesh and drink blood. 
18 aYou shall eat the flesh of the mighty,
Drink the blood of the princes of the earth,
Of rams and lambs,
Of goats and bulls,
All of them bfatlings of Bashan. 
Commentaries:
Matthew Henry
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Ezekiel 39:1-29

The destruction of Gog. (1-10) Its extent. (11-22) Israel again favoured. (23-29)

Verses 1-10 The Lord will make the most careless and hardened transgressors know his holy name, either by his righteous anger, or by the riches of his mercy and grace. The weapons formed against Zion shall not prosper. Though this prophecy is to be fulfilled in the latter days, it is certain. From the language used, it seems that the army of Gog will be destroyed by miracle.

Verses 11-22 How numerous the enemies which God destroyed for the defence of his people Israel! Times of great deliverances should be times of reformation. Every one should help the utmost he can, toward cleansing the land from reproach. Sin is an enemy every man should strive against. Those engaged in public work, especially of cleansing and reforming a land, ought to be men who will go through with what they undertake, who will be always employed. When good work is to be done, every one should further it. Having received special favours from God, let us cleanse ourselves from all evil. It is a work which will require persevering diligence, that search may be made into the secret recesses of sin. The judgments of the Lord, brought upon sin and sinners, are a sacrifice to the justice of God, and a feast to the faith and hope of God's people. See how evil pursues sinners, even after death. After all that ambitious and covetous men do and look for, "a place of graves" is all the Lord gives them on earth, while their guilty souls are doomed to misery in another world.

Verses 23-29 When the Lord shall have mercy on the whole house of Israel, by converting them to Christianity, and when they shall have borne the shame of being cast off for their sins, then the nations shall learn to know, worship, and serve him. Then Israel also shall know the Lord, as revealed in and by Christ. Past events do not answer to these predictions. The pouring out of the Spirit is a pledge that God's favour will continue. He will hide his face no more from those on whom he has poured out his Spirit. When we pray that God would never cast us from his presence, we must as earnestly pray that, in order thereto, he would never take his Holy Spirit from us.


 
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