Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version “’For seven months the Israelites will be burying them in order to cleanse the land. New Living Translation It will take seven months for the people of Israel to bury the bodies and cleanse the land. English Standard Version For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them, in order to cleanse the land. Berean Standard Bible For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them in order to cleanse the land. King James Bible And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land. New King James Version For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them, in order to cleanse the land. New American Standard Bible For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them in order to cleanse the land. NASB 1995 “For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them in order to cleanse the land. NASB 1977 “For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them in order to cleanse the land. Legacy Standard Bible And for seven months the house of Israel will be burying them in order to cleanse the land. Amplified Bible For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them in order to cleanse the land. Christian Standard Bible The house of Israel will spend seven months burying them in order to cleanse the land. Holman Christian Standard Bible The house of Israel will spend seven months burying them in order to cleanse the land. American Standard Version And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying them, that they may cleanse the land. Aramaic Bible in Plain English And for seven months, they of the house of Israel shall bury them, and the land shall be cleansed Brenton Septuagint Translation And the house of Israel shall bury them, that the land may be cleansed in the space of seven months. Contemporary English Version The Israelites will spend seven months burying dead bodies and cleaning up their land. Douay-Rheims Bible And the house of Israel shall bury them for seven months to cleanse the land. English Revised Version And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land. GOD'S WORD® Translation The people of Israel will be burying them there for seven months to make the land clean. Good News Translation It will take the Israelites seven months to bury all the corpses and make the land clean again. International Standard Version The house of Israel will be burying them for seven months in order to purify the land. JPS Tanakh 1917 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying them, that they may cleanse the land. Literal Standard Version And the house of Israel has buried them—in order to cleanse the land—seven months. Majority Standard Bible For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them in order to cleanse the land. New American Bible For seven months the house of Israel shall bury them in order to cleanse the land. NET Bible For seven months Israel will bury them, in order to cleanse the land. New Revised Standard Version Seven months the house of Israel shall spend burying them, in order to cleanse the land. New Heart English Bible Seven months shall the house of Israel be burying them, that they may cleanse the land. Webster's Bible Translation And seven months shall the house of Israel be in burying them, that they may cleanse the land. World English Bible “‘“The house of Israel will be burying them for seven months, that they may cleanse the land. Young's Literal Translation And the house of Israel have buried them -- in order to cleanse the land -- seven months. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Slaughter of Gog's Armies…11And on that day I will give Gog a burial place in Israel, the Valley of the Travelers, east of the Sea. It will block those who travel through, because Gog and all his hordes will be buried there. So it will be called the Valley of Hamon-gog. 12For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them in order to cleanse the land. 13All 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.… Cross References Deuteronomy 21:23 you must not leave the body on the tree overnight, but you must be sure to bury him that day, because anyone who is hung on a tree is under God's curse. You must not defile the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance. Ezekiel 39:11 And on that day I will give Gog a burial place in Israel, the Valley of the Travelers, east of the Sea. It will block those who travel through, because Gog and all his hordes will be buried there. So it will be called the Valley of Hamon-gog. Ezekiel 39:14 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. Ezekiel 39:16 (Even the city will be named Hamonah.) And so they will cleanse the land. Treasury of Scripture And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land. cleanse Ezekiel 39:14,16 And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search… Numbers 19:16 And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days. Deuteronomy 21:23 His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance. Jump to Previous Buried Burying Children Clean Cleanse Earth House Israel Months Order Putting SevenJump to Next Buried Burying Children Clean Cleanse Earth House Israel Months Order Putting SevenEzekiel 39 1. God's judgment upon Gog8. Israel's victory 11. Gog's burial in Hamon-gog 17. The feast of the fowls 21. Israel having been plagued for their sins 25. shall be gathered again with eternal favor Verses 12, 13. - The time that should be occupied in Gog's funeral should be seven months - so great should be the number of the dead - the sacred number seven recalling the seven years consumed in the burning of the weapons (ver. 9), and reminding one of the "seven times heated" furnace into which the Hebrew children were cast, and of the "seven times" of Nebuchadnezzar's humiliation (Daniel 3:19; Daniel 4:23). The parties who should conduct his obsequies should be the house of Israel, even all the people of the land, indicating the common joy occasioned by the barbaric chieftain's overthrow. The motive which should impel them in their work would be a desire to cleanse the land from the defilement it had contracted from the corpses of the slain (comp. Numbers 19:11, 22; Numbers 31:19; Numbers 35:33); and the end should be that the work should be to them, not for "a remembrance" (Ewald), but a renown, not because they should have helped to bury Gog (Hengstenberg), or through burying Gog should have proved themselves his conquerors (Smend), and in virtue of Jehovah's protection the possessors of his grave (Hitzig), but because in the day when Jehovah glorified himself through Gog's destruction, he (Jehovah) should also be glorified by their (Israel's) zeal "to show themselves a holy people by sweeping all uncleanness away" (Keil). Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew For sevenשִׁבְעָ֖ה (šiḇ·‘āh) Number - masculine singular Strong's 7651: Seven, seven times, a week, an indefinite number months חֳדָשִֽׁים׃ (ḥo·ḏā·šîm) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 2320: The new moon, a month the house בֵּ֣ית (bêṯ) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 1004: A house of Israel יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל (yiś·rā·’êl) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc will be burying them וּקְבָרוּם֙ (ū·qə·ḇā·rūm) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural | third person masculine plural Strong's 6912: To inter in order לְמַ֖עַן (lə·ma·‘an) Conjunction Strong's 4616: Purpose -- intent to cleanse טַהֵ֣ר (ṭa·hêr) Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct Strong's 2891: To be clean or pure the land. הָאָ֑רֶץ (hā·’ā·reṣ) Article | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 776: Earth, land Links Ezekiel 39:12 NIVEzekiel 39:12 NLT Ezekiel 39:12 ESV Ezekiel 39:12 NASB Ezekiel 39:12 KJV Ezekiel 39:12 BibleApps.com Ezekiel 39:12 Biblia Paralela Ezekiel 39:12 Chinese Bible Ezekiel 39:12 French Bible Ezekiel 39:12 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Ezekiel 39:12 Seven months shall the house of Israel (Ezek. 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