12 [a]And seven months long shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.

13 Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them, and they shall have a name, when I shall be glorified, saith the Lord God.

14 And they shall choose out men to go continually through the [b]land with them that travail, to bury those that remain upon the ground, to cleanse it: they shall search to the end of seven months.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 39:12 Meaning, a long time.
  2. Ezekiel 39:14 Partly that the holy land should not be polluted, and partly for the compassion that the children of God have, even on their enemies.

Bible Gateway Recommends