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"Thus they shall cleanse the land"

Text: Ezekiel 39:16

A MASSIVE BURIAL GROUND

The destruction of Gog and the multitudes who followed him was described candidly. A mass grave would be made to contain the huge horde of people who sought to invade and conquer Israel.

“They will set apart men regularly employed,
with the help of a search party,
to pass through the land and
bury those bodies remaining on the ground,
in order to cleanse it.
At the end of seven months they will make a search.
The search party will pass through the land;
and when anyone sees a man’s bone,
he shall set up a marker by it,
till the buriers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon Gog.
The name of the city will also be Hamonah.
Thus they shall cleanse the land.”
Ezekiel 39:14-16

1. People would be specially employed:

a) To search for corpses.

b) To collect the dead bodies.

c) To bury the dead.

d) This search would take seven months.

2. The process.

a) The search party would scour the land.

b) If they were to find even a small human bone, they would mark the place.

c) The search party would then search extensively.

d) All remains would be gathered together.

e) Burial would then be given.

f) In this manner, the land would be “cleansed”.

3. The name of the city.

a) This is a mass gravesite.

b) There were so many buried there, it was called “a city”.

c) The name of the city was “Hamonah”.

i) It comes from the Hebrew word that means “multitude”.

ii) A huge number of people had been buried in this valley.