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The Aftermath of the Battle

“After all this happens, the people who live in the cities of Israel will be kindling fires for seven years, using small shields, large shields, bows, arrows, clubs, personal weapons, and spears to do so. 10 They won’t need to cut down trees from the fields nor gather firewood from the forests, because they will light fires with the weapons as they plunder the plunderers and loot the looters!” declares the Lord God. 11 “When all of this happens, I’m going to set aside a grave site for Gog in Israel’s Traveler’s Valley,[a] near the approach[b] to the Dead Sea. She[c] will block off everyone who tries to bypass it. There they will bury Gog, and rename the area ‘Valley of Gog’s Gang’.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 39:11 Lit. in the Crossover Valley; or Israel, the valley where people cross
  2. Ezekiel 39:11 I.e. to the north, as one travels from Jerusalem
  3. Ezekiel 39:11 MT does not identify the woman
  4. Ezekiel 39:11 Lit. Gog’s Crowd’ and so in v. 15