Ezekiel 39:14

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.

Commentaries:

Barnes' Notes

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Ezekiel 39:14

Men of continual employment - literally, as margin, i. e., men regularly appointed to this business. As the land of Israel represents figuratively the Church of Christ, the purification of that land is a proper part of the figure to indicate such a sanctification and cleansing of His Church, as Paul describes Ephesians 5:26-27.

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