Ezekiel 39:15
13 All the people of the land will bury them, and it will bring them renown on the day I display My glory, declares the Lord GOD.
14 And men will be employed to continually pass through the land to cleanse it by burying the invaders who remain on the ground. At the end of the seven months they will begin their search.
As they pass through the land, anyone who sees a human bone will set up a pillar next to it, until the gravediggers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon-gog.
16 (Even the city will be named Hamonah.) And so they will cleanse the land.
17 And as for you, son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says: Call out to every kind of bird and to every beast of the field: ‘Assemble and come together from all around to the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you, a great feast on the mountains of Israel. There you will eat flesh and drink blood.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- As they pass through the land, anyone who sees a human bone will set up a pillar next to it, until the gravediggers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon-gog.
- KJV
- And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamon-gog.
- WEB
- Those who search through the land will pass through; and when anyone sees a man’s bone, then he will set up a sign by it, until the undertakers have buried it in the valley of Hamon Gog.
- ASV
- And they that pass through the land shall pass through; and when any seeth a man`s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamon-gog.
- DARBY
- And the passers-by shall pass through the land, and when [any] seeth a man's bone, he shall set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon-Gog.
- BLB
- And those passing by will pass through the land, and having seen a bone of a man, he will construct beside it a sign, until those burying have buried it in the Valley of Hamon-gog.
- ÅB
- og når noen av dem som skal dra gjennom landet, på sin ferd ser et menneskeben, da skal de sette opp et merke der, til de som skal begrave, får begravet det i Goghopens dal.
- OTB
- Når de går gjennom landet, skal enhver som ser et menneskebein sette opp et merke ved det inntil gravgraverne begraver det i Hamon Gogs dal,
- B1930
- og når nogen av dem som skal dra gjennem landet, på sin ferd ser et menneskeben, da skal de sette op et merke der, til de som skal begrave, får begravet det i Goghopens dal.
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Original text and word study
Cross references
Luke 11:44
Woe to you! For you are like unmarked graves, which men walk over without even noticing.”
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