Ezekiel 39:9-16

GOD’S WORD Translation

⁹ Those living in the cities of Israel will go out. They will set fire to weapons and burn them. They will burn small and large shields, bows and arrows, and war clubs and spears. They will burn them for seven years. ¹⁰ They will not need to get wood from the field or cut down trees in the woods. They will make fires with the weapons. They will loot those who looted them, and they will grab things back from those who grabbed their things, declares the Almighty Lord.

¹¹ “ ‘When that day comes, I will give Gog a burial place in Israel. It will be in Travelers Valley, east of the Dead Sea. It will block those who travel ⌞through the valley⌟. Gog and his whole army will be buried there. So it will be called the valley of Gog’s troops. ¹² The people of Israel will be burying them there for seven months to make the land clean.^{[a] 13} All the common people will be burying them. The people of Israel will be honored on the day of my victory, declares the Almighty Lord.

¹⁴ “ ‘People will be chosen to go through the land and make it clean. With the help of others they will bury the dead soldiers that are still on the ground. At the end of seven months they will begin their search. ¹⁵ Whenever they go through the land and see a human bone, they will set up a marker beside it until the grave diggers have buried that bone in the valley of Gog’s troops. ¹⁶ (A city named Hamonah ^[b] will also be there.) In this way they will cleanse the land.’