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They will spread out across the land and, along with others, they will bury any bodies that are lying on the ground. &#8220&#8217After the seven months they will carry out a more detailed search. <a href="/nlt/ezekiel/39.htm">New Living Translation</a> “After seven months, teams of men will be appointed to search the land for skeletons to bury, so the land will be made clean again. <a href="/esv/ezekiel/39.htm">English Standard Version</a> They will set apart men to travel through the land regularly and bury those travelers remaining on the face of the land, so as to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they will make their search. <a href="/bsb/ezekiel/39.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> 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. <a href="/kjv/ezekiel/39.htm">King James Bible</a> 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. <a href="/nkjv/ezekiel/39.htm">New King James Version</a> “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. <a href="/nasb_/ezekiel/39.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> “They will also select men who will constantly pass through the land, burying those who were passing through, those left on the surface of the ground, in order to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they will conduct a search. <a href="/nasb/ezekiel/39.htm">NASB 1995</a> &#8220They will set apart men who will constantly pass through the land, burying those who were passing through, even those left on the surface of the ground, in order to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they will make a search. <a href="/nasb77/ezekiel/39.htm">NASB 1977 </a> “And they will set apart men who will constantly pass through the land, burying those who were passing through, even those left on the surface of the ground, in order to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they will make a search. <a href="/lsb/ezekiel/39.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> “Now they will set apart men who will continually pass through the land, burying those who were passing through, even those left on the surface of the ground, in order to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they will make a search. <a href="/amp/ezekiel/39.htm">Amplified Bible</a> “They will elect men who will constantly go through the land, [men commissioned] to bury those who were passing through, those bodies that lie unburied on the surface of the ground, in order to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they will do a search. <a href="/csb/ezekiel/39.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> “ ‘They will appoint men on a full-time basis to pass through the land and bury the invaders who remain on the surface of the ground, in order to cleanse it. They will make their search at the end of the seven months. <a href="/hcsb/ezekiel/39.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> They will appoint men on a full-time basis to pass through the land and bury the invaders who remain on the surface of the ground, in order to cleanse it. They will make their search at the end of the seven months. <a href="/asv/ezekiel/39.htm">American Standard Version</a> And they shall set apart men of continual employment, that shall pass through the land, and, with them that pass through, those that bury them that remain upon the face of the land, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search. <a href="/cev/ezekiel/39.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> After those seven months, the people will appoint a group of men to look for any dead bodies left unburied. This must be done for seven months to make sure that the land is no longer unclean. <a href="/erv/ezekiel/39.htm">English Revised Version</a> And they shall sever out men of continual employment, that shall pass through the land to bury them that pass through, that remain upon the face of the land, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search. <a href="/gwt/ezekiel/39.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> " 'People will be chosen to go through the land and make it clean. With the help of others they will bury the dead soldiers that are still on the ground. At the end of seven months they will begin their search. <a href="/gnt/ezekiel/39.htm">Good News Translation</a> After the seven months are over, men will be chosen to travel through the land in order to find and bury those bodies remaining on the ground, so that they can make the land clean. <a href="/isv/ezekiel/39.htm">International Standard Version</a> "Men will be assigned to travel continuously throughout the land, exploring for seven full months as they go about burying the bodies that remain from the battle on the surface of the ground, so that the land may be sterilized. <a href="/msb/ezekiel/39.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> 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. <a href="/net/ezekiel/39.htm">NET Bible</a> They will designate men to scout continually through the land, burying those who remain on the surface of the ground, in order to cleanse it. They will search for seven full months. <a href="/nheb/ezekiel/39.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> They shall set apart men of continual employment, who shall pass through the land, and, with those who pass through, those who bury those who remain on the surface of the land, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search. <a href="/wbt/ezekiel/39.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> 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. <a href="/web/ezekiel/39.htm">World English Bible</a> “‘“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. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/ezekiel/39.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> And they separate men for continual employment, with those passing through, passing on through the land, burying those who are left on the face of the earth, to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they search. <a href="/ylt/ezekiel/39.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> And men for continual employment they separate, passing on through the land, burying with those passing by those who are left on the face of the earth, to cleanse it: at the end of seven months they search. <a href="/slt/ezekiel/39.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> And they shall separate men continually, passing through in the land burying those transported with those remaining upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: from the end of seven months they shall search.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/ezekiel/39.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> And they shall appoint men to go continually about the land, to bury and to seek out them that were remaining upon the face of the earth, that they may cleanse it: and after seven months they shall begin to seek. <a href="/cpdv/ezekiel/39.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> And they shall appoint men to continually examine the earth, so that they may seek out and bury those who have remained on the surface of the earth, so that they may cleanse it. Then, after seven months, they will begin to seek. <a href="/nabre/ezekiel/39.htm">New American Bible</a> Men shall be permanently assigned to pass through the land, burying those who lie unburied in order to cleanse the land. For seven months they shall keep searching. <a href="/nrsvce/ezekiel/39.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> They will set apart men to pass through the land regularly and bury any invaders who remain on the face of the land, so as to cleanse it; for seven months they shall make their search.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/ezekiel/39.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> Even seven months after, there shall be men who will travel continually through the land burying those who are left lying on the face of the land, to cleanse it. <a href="/hpbt/ezekiel/39.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> And after seven months there shall be men constantly walking in the land, and burying those who were left in the land, so that it would be cleansed<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/ezekiel/39.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> And they shall set apart men of continual employment, that shall pass through the land to bury with them that pass through those that remain upon the face of the land, to cleanse it; after the end of seven months shall they search. <a href="/sep/ezekiel/39.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> And they shall appoint men continually to go over the land, to bury them that have been left on the face of the earth, to cleanse it after the space of seven months, and they shall seek them out. <a href="/parallel/ezekiel/39-14.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vET3Gmwku4s?start=11716" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/ezekiel/39.htm">The Slaughter of Gog's Armies</a> …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. 14<a href="/hebrew/582.htm" title="582: wə·’an·šê (Conj-w:: N-mpc) -- Man, mankind. From 'anash; properly, a mortal; hence, a man in general.">And men</a> <a href="/hebrew/914.htm" title="914: yaḇ·dî·lū (V-Hifil-Imperf-3mp) -- To be divided, separate. A primitive root; to divide.">will be employed</a> <a href="/hebrew/8548.htm" title="8548: ṯā·mîḏ (Adv) -- From an unused root meaning to stretch; properly, continuance; but used only constant; ellipt. The regular sacrifice.">to continually</a> <a href="/hebrew/5674.htm" title="5674: ‘ō·ḇə·rîm (V-Qal-Prtcpl-mp) -- To pass over, through, or by, pass on. A primitive root; to cross over; used very widely of any transition; specifically, to cover.">pass</a> <a href="/hebrew/776.htm" title="776: bā·’ā·reṣ (Prep-b, Art:: N-fs) -- Earth, land. From an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth.">through the land</a> <a href="/hebrew/2891.htm" title="2891: lə·ṭa·hă·rāh (Prep-l:: V-Piel-Inf:: 3fs) -- To be clean or pure. A primitive root; properly, to be bright; i.e. to be pure.">to cleanse it</a> <a href="/hebrew/6912.htm" title="6912: mə·qab·bə·rîm (V-Piel-Prtcpl-mp) -- To bury. A primitive root; to intern.">by burying</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/5674.htm" title="5674: hā·‘ō·ḇə·rîm (Art:: V-Qal-Prtcpl-mp) -- To pass over, through, or by, pass on. A primitive root; to cross over; used very widely of any transition; specifically, to cover.">the invaders</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/3498.htm" title="3498: han·nō·w·ṯā·rîm (Art:: V-Nifal-Prtcpl-mp) -- A primitive root; to jut over or exceed; by implication, to excel; to remain or be left; causatively, to leave, cause to abound, preserve.">who remain</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘al- (Prep) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications.">on</a> <a href="/hebrew/6440.htm" title="6440: pə·nê (N-cpc) -- Face, faces. Plural of an unused noun; the face; used in a great variety of applications; also as a preposition."></a> <a href="/hebrew/776.htm" title="776: hā·’ā·reṣ (Art:: N-fs) -- Earth, land. From an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth.">the ground.</a> <a href="/hebrew/7097.htm" title="7097: miq·ṣêh (Prep-m:: N-msc) -- End, extremity. Or qetseh; from qatsah; an extremity.">At the end</a> <a href="/hebrew/7651.htm" title="7651: šiḇ·‘āh- (Number-ms) -- Or shibrah; from shaba'; a primitive cardinal number; seven; also seven times; by implication, a week; by extension, an indefinite number.">of the seven</a> <a href="/hebrew/2320.htm" title="2320: ḥo·ḏā·šîm (N-mp) -- New moon, a month. From chadash; the new moon; by implication, a month.">months</a> <a href="/hebrew/2713.htm" title="2713: yaḥ·qō·rū (V-Qal-Imperf-3mp) -- To search. A primitive root; properly, to penetrate; hence, to examine intimately.">they will begin their search.</a> 15As 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.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/ezekiel/39-12.htm">Ezekiel 39:12-13</a> For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them in order to cleanse the land. / 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. <a href="/ezekiel/38-18.htm">Ezekiel 38:18-23</a> Now on that day when Gog comes against the land of Israel, declares the Lord GOD, My wrath will flare up. / In My zeal and fiery rage I proclaim that on that day there will be a great earthquake in the land of Israel. / The fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the beasts of the field, every creature that crawls upon the ground, and all mankind on the face of the earth will tremble at My presence. The mountains will be thrown down, the cliffs will collapse, and every wall will fall to the ground. ... <a href="/ezekiel/37-1.htm">Ezekiel 37:1-14</a> The hand of the LORD was upon me, and He brought me out by His Spirit and set me down in the middle of the valley, and it was full of bones. / He led me all around among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, and indeed, they were very dry. / Then He asked me, “Son of man, can these bones come to life?” “O Lord GOD,” I replied, “only You know.” ... <a href="/ezekiel/36-24.htm">Ezekiel 36:24-28</a> For I will take you from among the nations and gather you out of all the countries, and I will bring you back into your own land. / I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols. / I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. ... <a href="/ezekiel/34-11.htm">Ezekiel 34:11-16</a> For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I Myself will search for My flock and seek them out. / As a shepherd looks for his scattered sheep when he is among the flock, so I will look for My flock. I will rescue them from all the places to which they were scattered on a day of clouds and darkness. / I will bring them out from the peoples, gather them from the countries, and bring them into their own land. I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, in the ravines, and in all the settlements of the land. ... <a href="/ezekiel/33-27.htm">Ezekiel 33:27-29</a> Tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘As surely as I live, those in the ruins will fall by the sword, those in the open field I will give to be devoured by wild animals, and those in the strongholds and caves will die by plague. / I will make the land a desolate waste, and the pride of her strength will come to an end. The mountains of Israel will become desolate, so that no one will pass through. / Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I have made the land a desolate waste because of all the abominations they have committed.’ <a href="/ezekiel/32-7.htm">Ezekiel 32:7-8</a> When I extinguish you, I will cover the heavens and darken their stars. I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not give its light. / All the shining lights in the heavens I will darken over you, and I will bring darkness upon your land,’ declares the Lord GOD. <a href="/ezekiel/28-25.htm">Ezekiel 28:25-26</a> This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they have been scattered, I will show Myself holy among them in the sight of the nations. Then they will dwell in their own land, which I have given to My servant Jacob. / And there they will dwell securely, build houses, and plant vineyards. They will dwell securely when I execute judgments against all those around them who treat them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the LORD their God.’” <a href="/ezekiel/20-41.htm">Ezekiel 20:41-42</a> When I bring you from the peoples and gather you from the lands to which you have been scattered, I will accept you as a pleasing aroma. And I will show My holiness through you in the sight of the nations. / Then you will know that I am the LORD, when I bring you into the land of Israel, the land that I swore to give your fathers. <a href="/ezekiel/11-17.htm">Ezekiel 11:17-20</a> Therefore declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you from the countries to which you have been scattered, and I will give back to you the land of Israel.’ / When they return to it, they will remove all its detestable things and all its abominations. / And I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them; I will remove their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh, ... <a href="/revelation/19-17.htm">Revelation 19:17-18</a> Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and he cried out in a loud voice to all the birds flying overhead, “Come, gather together for the great supper of God, / so that you may eat the flesh of kings and commanders and mighty men, of horses and riders, of everyone slave and free, small and great.” <a href="/revelation/20-8.htm">Revelation 20:8-9</a> and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—to assemble them for battle. Their number is like the sand of the seashore. / And they marched across the broad expanse of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. But fire came down from heaven and consumed them. <a href="/revelation/21-27.htm">Revelation 21:27</a> But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life. <a href="/revelation/22-14.htm">Revelation 22:14-15</a> Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates. / But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood. <a href="/matthew/24-28.htm">Matthew 24:28</a> Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain on the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.they shall<a href="/numbers/19-11.htm">Numbers 19:11-19</a> He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days… <a href="/ezekiel/39-12.htm">Ezekiel 39:12</a> And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/ezekiel/23-37.htm">Apart</a> <a href="/ezekiel/39-13.htm">Bury</a> <a href="/ezekiel/39-12.htm">Burying</a> <a href="/ezekiel/39-12.htm">Cleanse</a> <a href="/lamentations/3-20.htm">Constantly</a> <a href="/ezekiel/38-8.htm">Continual</a> <a href="/ezekiel/39-13.htm">Earth</a> <a href="/genesis/46-32.htm">Employment</a> <a href="/ezekiel/38-16.htm">End</a> <a href="/ezekiel/39-5.htm">Face</a> <a href="/ezekiel/39-11.htm">Ground</a> <a href="/ezekiel/39-12.htm">Months</a> <a href="/ezekiel/39-12.htm">Order</a> <a href="/ezekiel/39-11.htm">Passengers</a> <a href="/ezekiel/35-7.htm">Passing</a> <a href="/ezekiel/34-16.htm">Search</a> <a href="/ezekiel/39-12.htm">Seven</a> <a href="/leviticus/5-8.htm">Sever</a> <a href="/ezekiel/38-20.htm">Surface</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/ezekiel/45-1.htm">Apart</a> <a href="/hosea/9-6.htm">Bury</a> <a href="/ezekiel/39-15.htm">Burying</a> <a href="/ezekiel/39-16.htm">Cleanse</a> <a href="/daniel/6-16.htm">Constantly</a> <a href="/ezekiel/46-15.htm">Continual</a> <a href="/ezekiel/39-15.htm">Earth</a> <a href="/acts/16-19.htm">Employment</a> <a href="/ezekiel/40-7.htm">End</a> <a href="/ezekiel/39-23.htm">Face</a> <a href="/ezekiel/41-16.htm">Ground</a> <a href="/daniel/4-29.htm">Months</a> <a href="/ezekiel/40-4.htm">Order</a> <a href="/ezekiel/39-15.htm">Passengers</a> <a href="/ezekiel/39-15.htm">Passing</a> <a href="/hosea/2-7.htm">Search</a> <a href="/ezekiel/40-22.htm">Seven</a> <a href="/matthew/13-49.htm">Sever</a> <a href="/daniel/8-5.htm">Surface</a><div class="vheading2">Ezekiel 39</div>1. <a href="/ezekiel/39-1.htm">God's judgment upon Gog</a> 8. <a href="/ezekiel/39-8.htm">Israel's victory</a> 11. <a href="/ezekiel/39-11.htm">Gog's burial in Hamon-gog</a> 17. <a href="/ezekiel/39-17.htm">The feast of the fowls</a> 21. <a href="/ezekiel/39-21.htm">Israel having been plagued for their sins</a> 25. <a href="/ezekiel/39-25.htm">shall be gathered again with eternal favor</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/ezekiel/39.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/ezekiel/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/ezekiel/39.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div>And men will be employed to continually pass through the land This phrase indicates a systematic and organized effort to cleanse the land, suggesting a large-scale operation. The employment of men for this task reflects the seriousness and the scale of the aftermath of the battle. In biblical context, this can be seen as a fulfillment of divine judgment, where the land must be purified from the defilement of the dead. The idea of cleansing the land is consistent with the Levitical laws concerning purity (<a href="/leviticus/11-32.htm">Leviticus 11:32-40</a>).to cleanse it by burying the invaders who remain on the ground. The act of burying the dead is significant in Jewish culture, as leaving bodies unburied was considered a curse and a defilement of the land (<a href="/deuteronomy/21-22.htm">Deuteronomy 21:22-23</a>). This cleansing process is not just physical but also spiritual, as it restores the land to a state of purity. The invaders mentioned are likely the forces of Gog, as described earlier in <a href="/ezekiel/38.htm">Ezekiel 38-39</a>, representing the enemies of God's people. This burial signifies the finality of God's victory over these forces.At the end of the seven months The specific mention of "seven months" is symbolic, as the number seven often represents completeness or perfection in the Bible. This period indicates a thorough and complete process of cleansing. It also suggests a time of reflection and transition from judgment to restoration. The duration underscores the magnitude of the destruction and the need for a significant period to address it.they will begin their search. The search implies a diligent and careful effort to ensure that no remains are left unburied, highlighting the importance of thoroughness in the cleansing process. This search can be seen as a metaphor for spiritual vigilance and the need to address all aspects of sin and defilement. It also connects to the broader theme of restoration and renewal found throughout the prophetic books, where God restores His people and their land after judgment.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/e/ezekiel.htm">Ezekiel</a> A prophet of God who ministered to the Israelites during their Babylonian exile. He conveyed God's messages of judgment and restoration. 2. <a href="/topical/i/israel.htm">Israel</a> The land and people to whom the prophecy is directed. This passage speaks of a future time when Israel will be cleansed from the aftermath of a great battle. 3. <a href="/topical/i/invaders.htm">Invaders</a> The enemies of Israel who are defeated in a divine act of judgment. Their bodies are to be buried to cleanse the land. 4. <a href="/topical/a/appointed_men.htm">Appointed Men</a> Individuals designated to search and bury the bodies of the invaders, ensuring the land is purified. 5. <a href="/topical/s/seven_months.htm">Seven Months</a> The period during which the land is cleansed, symbolizing completeness and thoroughness in the Hebrew context.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_purity.htm">The Importance of Purity</a> God's people are called to maintain spiritual and physical purity. The act of cleansing the land reflects the need for holiness in our lives. <a href="/topical/d/divine_judgment_and_restoration.htm">Divine Judgment and Restoration</a> God's judgment on the invaders is followed by a period of restoration for Israel. This pattern is seen throughout Scripture, where God disciplines but also redeems His people. <a href="/topical/c/community_responsibility.htm">Community Responsibility</a> The appointed men symbolize the role of community in maintaining purity and order. Believers are called to support one another in spiritual growth and accountability. <a href="/topical/s/symbolism_of_seven.htm">Symbolism of Seven</a> The number seven signifies completeness. The thorough cleansing over seven months reminds us of God's complete work in our lives, calling us to trust in His perfect timing. <a href="/topical/h/hope_in_god's_sovereignty.htm">Hope in God's Sovereignty</a> Despite the chaos of battle, God remains in control. This passage encourages believers to trust in God's ultimate plan and sovereignty over all circumstances.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_ezekiel_39.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Ezekiel 39</a> <a href="/q/what_was_the_cause_of_jeremiah's_death.htm">Is baptism mentioned in the Old Testament?</a> <a href="/q/what's_the_narrative's_symbolism.htm">What is the symbolic meaning behind this narrative?</a> <a href="/q/evidence_for_ezekiel_39_11-15_burial.htm">What historical or archaeological evidence exists to confirm or deny the massive burial of armies described in Ezekiel 39:11-15?</a> <a href="/q/ezekiel_34__judgment_inconsistencies.htm">Ezekiel 34 - Are there any inconsistencies with other prophetic books about how judgment is executed and who is held accountable?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/ezekiel/39.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(14) Men of continual employment.--The word for "continual" is the same as that translated always in <a href="/ezekiel/38-8.htm" title="After many days you shall be visited: in the latter years you shall come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.">Ezekiel 38:8</a>, where see Note. It implies that this occupation is to be one of long continuance, and the fact that they are to search the land through for the remains shows that the army of Gog is not conceived of as perishing when collected in one place, but when distributed all over the land. This search is only to begin after the close of the burying for seven months already described.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/ezekiel/39.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 14. - When the work of burying Gog should have gone on for seven months, at the end of that time the Israelites should sever out (comp. <a href="/deuteronomy/10-8.htm">Deuteronomy 10:8</a>) men of continual employment; literally, men of con-t/nuance; i.e. persons hired for a continuous work or devoted to a constant occupation, whose business it should be passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain - or, as the Revised Version reads, to bury them that pass through, that remain - upon the face of the land. Here, again, the old play upon the word "passengers" recurs, and with it two or three difficulties. (1) It is not clear whether the commissioners consisted of two classes of officers, "passers through," or "searchers," who scoured the land in search of unburied skeletons or bones, which, however, they did not bury; and "buriers" proper, who, accompanying these searchers, conducted the interment of such skeletons or bones as were found (Hengstenberg, Keil); or whether the commissioners were only one body, who both searched and buried (Ewald and Smend). (2) It is doubtful whether the אֶת in אֶת־הָעֹבְרִים should be taken as the sign of the accusative, and the clause translated as in the Revised Version, in which case the "passengers" that should be buried could only be the "invaders" as above (see ver. 11); or as a preposition, in which case the rendering of the Authorized Version must stand, and the "passengers" be regarded as the "searchers." (3) It is open to debate whether ver. 14 should not close with the initial words of ver. 15, as Ewald proposes, "And the passengers shall search and pass through in the land;" or at least whether the first clause in ver. 15 should not form an independent sentence, thus: "And they that pass through in the land shall pass through," as in the Revised Version, in which case the sighting of unburied bones (ver. 15) would not necessarily be the work of "searchers," but of any one, the verb וְרָאָה being impersonal. It is impossible to decide dogmatically in a question of so much difficulty; but the Revised Version appears to present the most exact rendering of the Hebrew, and upon the whole the most intelligible account of what was intended to take place, viz. the appointment of a special body of commissioners, who should be designated both "passengers," in ironical allusion to Gog who had meant to pass through the land, and "buffers," from the nature of the task delegated to them, viz. the interment of the "passengers," i.e. the Gogites, and who should begin their work after the main body of the slain had been removed, i.e. at the end of the seven months of burying. <a href="/commentaries/ezekiel/39-14.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>And men וְאַנְשֵׁ֨י (wə·’an·šê) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_376.htm">Strong's 376: </a> A man as an individual, a male person will be employed יַבְדִּ֙ילוּ֙ (yaḇ·dî·lū) Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_914.htm">Strong's 914: </a> To be divided, separate to continually תָמִ֤יד (ṯā·mîḏ) Adverb <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8548.htm">Strong's 8548: </a> Continuance, constant, ellipt, the regular, sacrifice pass עֹבְרִ֣ים (‘ō·ḇə·rîm) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5674.htm">Strong's 5674: </a> To pass over, through, or by, pass on through the land בָּאָ֔רֶץ (bā·’ā·reṣ) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_776.htm">Strong's 776: </a> Earth, land to cleanse it לְטַֽהֲרָ֑הּ (lə·ṭa·hă·rāh) Preposition-l | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct | third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2891.htm">Strong's 2891: </a> To be clean or pure by burying מְקַבְּרִ֣ים (mə·qab·bə·rîm) Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6912.htm">Strong's 6912: </a> To inter the invaders הָעֹבְרִ֗ים (hā·‘ō·ḇə·rîm) Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5674.htm">Strong's 5674: </a> To pass over, through, or by, pass on who remain הַנּוֹתָרִ֛ים (han·nō·w·ṯā·rîm) Article | Verb - Nifal - Participle - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3498.htm">Strong's 3498: </a> To jut over, exceed, to excel, to remain, be left, to leave, cause to abound, preserve on עַל־ (‘al-) Preposition <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5921.htm">Strong's 5921: </a> Above, over, upon, against the ground. הָאָ֖רֶץ (hā·’ā·reṣ) Article | Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_776.htm">Strong's 776: </a> Earth, land At the end מִקְצֵ֥ה (miq·ṣêh) Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7097.htm">Strong's 7097: </a> End, extremity of the seven שִׁבְעָֽה־ (šiḇ·‘āh-) Number - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7651.htm">Strong's 7651: </a> Seven, seven times, a week, an indefinite number months חֳדָשִׁ֖ים (ḥo·ḏā·šîm) Noun - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2320.htm">Strong's 2320: </a> The new moon, a month they will begin their search. יַחְקֹֽרוּ׃ (yaḥ·qō·rū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2713.htm">Strong's 2713: </a> To penetrate, to examine intimately <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/ezekiel/39-14.htm">Ezekiel 39:14 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/ezekiel/39-14.htm">Ezekiel 39:14 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/ezekiel/39-14.htm">Ezekiel 39:14 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/ezekiel/39-14.htm">Ezekiel 39:14 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/ezekiel/39-14.htm">Ezekiel 39:14 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/ezekiel/39-14.htm">Ezekiel 39:14 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/ezekiel/39-14.htm">Ezekiel 39:14 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/ezekiel/39-14.htm">Ezekiel 39:14 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/ezekiel/39-14.htm">Ezekiel 39:14 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/ezekiel/39-14.htm">Ezekiel 39:14 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/ezekiel/39-14.htm">OT Prophets: Ezekiel 39:14 They shall set apart men of continual (Ezek. 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