Ezekiel 39:12

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For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them in order to cleanse the land.

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  • Deut 21:23 : 23 you must not leave his body on the tree overnight. Be sure to bury him that same day, because anyone who is hung on a tree is under God’s curse. You must not defile the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
  • Ezek 39:14 : 14 They will appoint men to continually pass through the land to bury the bodies of the remaining travelers who are still on the surface of the land, in order to cleanse it. At the end of the seven months, they will begin their search.
  • Ezek 39:16 : 16 And there will also be a city named Hamonah. And they will cleanse the land.
  • Num 19:16 : 16 Anyone in the open field who touches someone who was killed with a sword, a dead body, a human bone, or a grave shall be unclean for seven days.

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  • Ezek 39:13-16
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    13 All the people of the land will bury them, and the day I am glorified will become renowned for them, declares the Lord GOD.

    14 They will appoint men to continually pass through the land to bury the bodies of the remaining travelers who are still on the surface of the land, in order to cleanse it. At the end of the seven months, they will begin their search.

    15 As they pass through the land, if someone sees a human bone, they will set up a marker beside it until the buriers bury it in the Valley of Hamon-Gog.

    16 And there will also be a city named Hamonah. And they will cleanse the land.

  • Ezek 39:9-11
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    9 Then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out and set fire to and burn the weapons—the shields, the small and large shields, the bows and arrows, the wooden clubs, and the spears. They will use them to make fires for seven years.

    10 They will not gather wood from the fields or cut it from the forests, because they will use the weapons as fuel. They will plunder those who plundered them and loot those who looted them, declares the Lord GOD.

    11 On that day, I will designate a burial place for Gog in Israel, in the Valley of the Travelers east of the sea. It will block the travelers, and there they will bury Gog and all his hordes, and they will call it the Valley of Hamon-Gog.

  • Ezek 38:8
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    8 After many days, you will be called to attention. In the latter years, you will go against a land that has been brought back from the sword and gathered from many peoples upon the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate. Its people were brought out from the nations, and now they dwell securely, all of them.

  • Ezek 37:11-13
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    11 Then He said to me, 'Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They say, “Our bones are dried up, our hope is gone, and we are cut off.”'

    12 Therefore prophesy and say to them, “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: 'Behold, I will open your graves, my people, and bring you up from them. I will bring you back to the land of Israel.'”

    13 Then you will know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves and bring you up from them, my people.

  • Ezek 38:16-19
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    16 You will advance against my people Israel like a cloud covering the land. In the latter days I will bring you against my land so that the nations may know me, as I show myself holy through you before their eyes, O Gog.

    17 This is what the Lord GOD says: Are you the one I spoke of in former days through my servants the prophets of Israel? At that time, they prophesied for years that I would bring you against them.

    18 On that day, when Gog comes against the land of Israel, declares the Lord GOD, my fury will rise up in my face.

    19 In my zeal and fiery wrath I declare: On that day, there will be a great earthquake in the land of Israel.

  • Ezek 39:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1 You, son of man, prophesize against Gog, and say, 'This is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.'

    2 I will turn you around, lead you astray, and bring you from the remote parts of the north onto the mountains of Israel.

  • Ezek 44:26
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    26 After he is cleansed, he is to wait seven days.

  • Ezek 4:4-6
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    4 Lie on your left side and put the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it. You will bear their iniquity for the number of days you lie on that side.

    5 I assign you the years of their iniquity as the number of days—three hundred ninety days—during which you will bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

    6 When you have completed these, lie down again, this time on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah for forty days, a day for each year. I have assigned you this period.

  • Ezek 11:17-18
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    17 Therefore say: This is what the Lord God says: I will gather you from the nations, collect you from the lands where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.

    18 When they arrive there, they will remove all its detestable things and all its abominations.

  • Ezek 33:28-29
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    28 I will make the land a desolate waste, and its proud strength will come to an end. The mountains of Israel will become desolate, with no one passing through.

    29 Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I make the land a desolate waste because of all the detestable things they have done.

  • Ezek 28:25
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    25 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 be shown as holy through them in the sight of the nations. Then they will live in their own land, which I gave to My servant Jacob.

  • Ezek 36:33-34
    2 verses
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    33 This is what the Lord GOD says: On the day I cleanse you from all your sins, I will resettle your towns, and the ruins will be rebuilt.

    34 The desolate land will be cultivated instead of lying desolate in the sight of everyone who passes by.

  • Num 19:16
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    16 Anyone in the open field who touches someone who was killed with a sword, a dead body, a human bone, or a grave shall be unclean for seven days.

  • Ezek 38:14
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    14 Therefore, prophesy, son of man, and say to Gog: ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: On that day when my people Israel are living securely, will you not be aware of it?

  • Ezek 36:17
    71%

    17 'Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it with their conduct and actions. Their way was as unclean as a woman's impurity in my sight.

  • Ezek 36:4
    70%

    4 therefore, mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD. This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains and hills, to the streams and valleys, to the desolate ruins and the abandoned towns that have been plundered and ridiculed by the surrounding nations:

  • Jer 25:33
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    33 On that day, those slain by the LORD will be scattered from one end of the earth to the other. They will not be mourned, gathered, or buried; they will be like dung lying on the ground.

  • Ezek 14:11
    69%

    11 Then the house of Israel will no longer stray from me or defile themselves with all their transgressions. They will be my people, and I will be their God, declares the Sovereign LORD.

  • Ezek 39:26-27
    2 verses
    69%

    26 They will forget their shame and all the unfaithfulness they committed against me when they live securely in their land with no one to make them afraid.

    27 When I bring them back from the nations and gather them from the lands of their enemies, I will show my holiness through them in the sight of many nations.

  • Ezek 37:23
    69%

    23 They will no longer defile themselves with their idols, their vile images, or any of their transgressions. I will save them from all the places where they have sinned, and I will purify them. They will be My people, and I will be their God.

  • Ezek 43:9
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    9 Now let them put away their prostitution and the corpses of their kings far from me, and I will dwell among them forever.

  • Jer 8:1
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    1 At that time, declares the LORD, they will bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of its officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem from their graves.

  • Ezek 6:12
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    12 The one who is far away will die by the plague, the one who is near will fall by the sword, and those who survive and are besieged will die of famine. Then I will exhaust My wrath upon them.

  • Ezek 12:6
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    6 Carry your things on your shoulder in their sight, at dusk. Cover your face so that you cannot see the land, for I have made you a sign to the house of Israel.

  • Num 19:11
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    11 Whoever touches the dead body of any person shall be unclean for seven days.

  • Jer 7:32
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    32 So beware! The days are coming, declares the LORD, when it will no longer be called Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter; for they will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room.

  • Ezek 36:13
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    13 This is what the Lord GOD says: Because people say to you, ‘You devour humans and make your nations childless,’

  • Ezek 36:24
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    24 I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the lands, and I will bring you back into your own land.

  • Ezek 43:26
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    26 For seven days, they shall make atonement for the altar, purify it, and consecrate it.

  • Ezek 39:5
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    5 You will fall in the open field, for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.

  • Ezek 6:5
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    5 I will lay the corpses of the Israelites before their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars.

  • Rev 11:9
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    9 For three and a half days, people from every tribe, language, and nation will gaze at their bodies and will not allow them to be buried in tombs.

  • Ezek 39:7
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    7 'I will make my holy name known among my people Israel, and I will no longer allow my holy name to be profaned. Then the nations will know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.'