Ezekiel 39

Destruction of Weapons and Burial Ezekiel 39:9–16

⁹Verse 9. “‘“Those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out, and will make fires of the weapons and burn them, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the war clubs and the spears, and they will make fires with them for seven years; ¹⁰Verse 10. so that they will take no wood out of the field, and not cut down any out of the forests; for they will make fires with the weapons. They will plunder those who plundered them, and rob those who robbed them,” says the Lord Yahweh. ¹¹Verse 11. “‘“It will happen in that day, that I will give to Gog a place for burial in Israel, the valley of those who pass through on the east of the sea; and it will stop those who pass through. They will bury Gog and all his multitude there; and they will call it ‘The valley of Hamon Gog’.

¹²Verse 12. “‘“The house of Israel will be burying them for seven months, that they may cleanse the land. ¹³Verse 13. Yes, all the people of the land will bury them; and they will become famous in the day that I will be glorified,” says the Lord Yahweh. ¹⁴Verse 14. “‘“They will set apart men of continual employment, who will pass through the land. Those who pass through will go with those who bury those who remain on the surface of the land, to cleanse it. After the end of seven months they will search. ¹⁵Verse 15. Those who pass through the land will pass through; and when anyone sees a man’s bone, then will he set up a sign by it, until the undertakers have buried it in the valley of Hamon Gog.

¹⁶Verse 16. Hamonah will also be the name of a city. Thus will they cleanse the land.”’

Feast for the Birds and Beasts Ezekiel 39:17–21

¹⁷Verse 17. “You, son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘Speak to the birds of every sort, and to every animal of the field, “Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat meat and drink blood. ¹⁸Verse 18. You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan. ¹⁹Verse 19. You shall eat fat until you are full, and drink blood until you are drunk, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.

²⁰Verse 20. You shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ²¹Verse 21. “I will set my glory among the nations. Then all the nations will see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them.

Restoration and Assurance for Israel Ezekiel 39:22–29

²²Verse 22. So the house of Israel will know that I am Yahweh their God, from that day and forward. ²³Verse 23. The nations will know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity; because they trespassed against me, and I hid my face from them; so I gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they all fell by the sword. ²⁴Verse 24. I did to them according to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions. I hid my face from them. ²⁵Verse 25. “Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘Now I will reverse the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy on the whole house of Israel. I will be jealous for my holy name.

²⁶Verse 26. They will bear their shame, and all their trespasses by which they have trespassed against me, when they dwell securely in their land, and no one will make them afraid, ²⁷Verse 27. when I have brought them back from the peoples, and gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations. ²⁸Verse 28. They will know that I am Yahweh their God, in that I caused them to go into captivity among the nations, and have gathered them to their own land. Then I will leave none of them captive any more. ²⁹Verse 29. I won’t hide my face from them any more; for I have poured out my Spirit on the house of Israel,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”