Ezekiel 39:16
 Ezekiel 39:16 
New International Version (©2011)
near a town called Hamonah. And so they will cleanse the land.'

New Living Translation (©2007)
(There will be a town there named Hamonah, which means 'horde.') And so the land will finally be cleansed.

English Standard Version (©2001)
(Hamonah is also the name of the city.) Thus shall they cleanse the land.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"And even the name of the city will be Hamonah. So they will cleanse the land."'

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
There will even be a city named Hamonah there. So they will cleanse the land."

International Standard Version (©2012)
They'll also name the city that is there 'Hamonah,' as they purify the land."

NET Bible (©2006)
(A city by the name of Hamonah will also be there.) They will cleanse the land.'

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
(A city named Hamonah will also be there.) In this way they will cleanse the land.'

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.

American King James Version
And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.

American Standard Version
And Hamonah shall also be the name of a city. Thus shall they cleanse the land.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the name of the city shall be Amona, and they shall cleanse the land.

Darby Bible Translation
And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.

English Revised Version
And Hamonah shall also be the name of a city. Thus shall they cleanse the land.

Webster's Bible Translation
And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.

World English Bible
Hamonah shall also be the name of a city. Thus shall they cleanse the land.

Young's Literal Translation
And also the name of the city is The multitude; and they have cleansed the land.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

39:11-22 How numerous the enemies which God destroyed for the defence of his people Israel! Times of great deliverances should be times of reformation. Every one should help the utmost he can, toward cleansing the land from reproach. Sin is an enemy every man should strive against. Those engaged in public work, especially of cleansing and reforming a land, ought to be men who will go through with what they undertake, who will be always employed. When good work is to be done, every one should further it. Having received special favours from God, let us cleanse ourselves from all evil. It is a work which will require persevering diligence, that search may be made into the secret recesses of sin. The judgments of the Lord, brought upon sin and sinners, are a sacrifice to the justice of God, and a feast to the faith and hope of God's people. See how evil pursues sinners, even after death. After all that ambitious and covetous men do and look for, a place of graves is all the Lord gives them on earth, while their guilty souls are doomed to misery in another world.


Pulpit Commentary

Verse 16. - As another mark to distinguish Gog's tomb, a city should arise in its vicinity, bearing the name Hamonah, or "Multitude" (comp. Isaiah 19:18, "the city of destruction"), though Schmieder thinks it must have been "a city of graves," since a city of houses could not exist in such a valley of the dead, and indeed the LXX. gives as the city's name Πολυάνδριον, by which later Greek writers were accustomed to call the common ground in a cemetery as distinguished from its paternal sepulchers. If quite improbable that Bethshan or Scythopolis near Megiddo was Ezekiel's Hamonah, it is possible the actual city may have been named after the ideal. Plumptre cites as a modern parallel the English town of Lichfield (or "Field of corpses"), which, according to tradition, commemorates the destruction of the Danes. When the work of the buriers should be finished, the land would be completely cleansed.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah,.... The name of the city nearest to this place, where Gog and his multitude shall be buried, shall be called Hamonah from thence, which signifies a multitude; or Polyandrion, as the Septuagint version, a place where many graves are; or perhaps a new city will be built near this place, and so called, to perpetuate the memory of it; or else, as Kimchi observes, Jerusalem will be so called, from the multitude of those that will be slain near it; but, however, neither that nor any other city in the land of Israel have ever bore any such name; from whence it may be concluded that this prophecy does not refer to the times of Antiochus, or any yet past, but to time to come:

thus shall they cleanse the land; thoroughly and completely, so that not a bone shall be left unburied.


Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

16. A city in the neighborhood was to receive the name Hamonah, "multitude," to commemorate the overthrow of the multitudes of the foe [Henderson]. The multitude of the slain shall give a name to the city of Jerusalem after the land shall have been cleansed [Grotius]. Jerusalem shall be famed as the conqueror of multitudes.


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The Slaughter of Gog's Armies
15And the passengers that pass through the land, when any sees a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamongog. 16And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land. 17And, you son of man, thus said the Lord GOD; Speak to every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat flesh, and drink blood. …

Ezekiel 39:12 "'For seven months the Israelites will be burying them in order to cleanse the land.
Ezekiel 39:15 As they go through the land, anyone who sees a human bone will leave a marker beside it until the gravediggers bury it in the Valley of Hamon Gog,
Ezekiel 39:17 "Son of man, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Call out to every kind of bird and all the wild animals: 'Assemble and come together from all around to the sacrifice I am preparing for you, the great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel. There you will eat flesh and drink blood.