Ezekiel 39:12

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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.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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And seven months - It shall require a long time to bury the dead. This is another figurative expression; which, however, may admit of a good deal of literal meaning. Many of the Syrian soldiers had secreted themselves in different places during the pursuit after the battle, where they died of their wounds, of hunger, and of fatigue; so that they were not all found and buried till seven months after the defeat of the Syrian army. This slow process of burying is distinctly related in the three following verses, and extended even to a bone, Ezekiel 39:15; which, when it was found by a passenger, the place was marked, that the buriers might see and inter it. Seven months was little time enough for all this work; and in that country putrescency does not easily take place: the scorching winds serving to desiccate the flesh, and preserve it from decomposition.

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