Ezekiel 39:15

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

When the scouts survey the land and see a human bone, they will place a sign by it, until those assigned to burial duty have buried it in the valley of Hamon-Gog.

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  • Luke 11:44 : 44 Woe to you! You are like unmarked graves, and people walk over them without realizing it!”

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  • Ezek 39:11-14
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    83%

    11“‘On that day I will assign Gog a grave in Israel. It will be the valley of those who travel east of the sea; it will block the way of the travelers. There they will bury Gog and all his horde; they will call it the valley of Hamon-Gog.

    12For seven months Israel will bury them, in order to cleanse the land.

    13All the people of the land will bury them, and it will be a memorial for them on the day I magnify myself, declares the Sovereign LORD.

    14They 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.

  • Ezek 39:16
    74%

    16(A city by the name of Hamonah will also be there.) They will cleanse the land.’

  • Jer 8:1
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    1The LORD says,“When that time comes, the bones of the kings of Judah and its leaders, the bones of the priests and prophets and of all the other people who lived in Jerusalem will be dug up from their graves.

  • Ezek 37:1-5
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    72%

    1The Valley of Dry Bones The hand of the LORD was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the LORD and placed me in the midst of the valley, and it was full of bones.

    2He made me walk all around among them. I realized there were a great many bones in the valley and they were very dry.

    3He said to me,“Son of man, can these bones live?” I said to him,“Sovereign LORD, you know.”

    4Then he said to me,“Prophesy over these bones, and tell them:‘Dry bones, listen to the LORD’s message.

    5This is what the Sovereign LORD says to these bones: Look, I am about to infuse breath into you and you will live.

  • Num 19:16
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    16And whoever touches the body of someone killed with a sword in the open fields, or the body of someone who died of natural causes, or a human bone, or a grave, will be unclean seven days.

  • Ezek 37:11-12
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    70%

    11Then he said to me,“Son of man, these bones are all the house of Israel. Look, they are saying,‘Our bones are dry, our hope has perished; we are cut off.’

    12Therefore prophesy, and tell them,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Look, I am about to open your graves and will raise you from your graves, my people. I will bring you to the land of Israel.

  • Ps 141:7
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    7As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

  • 1 Kgs 13:29-31
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    69%

    29The old prophet picked up the prophet’s body, put it on the donkey, and brought it back. The old prophet then entered the city to mourn him and to bury him.

    30He put the body into his own tomb, and they mourned over him, saying,“Ah, my brother!”

    31After he buried him, he said to his sons,“When I die, bury me in the tomb where the prophet is buried; put my bones right beside his bones,

  • Jer 9:22
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    22Tell your daughters and neighbors,‘The LORD says,“The dead bodies of people will lie scattered everywhere like manure scattered on a field. They will lie scattered on the ground like grain that has been cut down but has not been gathered.”’”

  • Amos 6:9-10
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    9If ten men are left in one house, they too will die.

    10When their close relatives, the ones who will burn the corpses, pick up their bodies to remove the bones from the house, they will say to anyone who is in the inner rooms of the house,“Is anyone else with you?” He will respond,“No one.” Then he will say,“Hush! Don’t invoke the LORD’s name!”

  • Job 21:32
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    32And when he is carried to the tombs, and watch is kept over the funeral mound,

  • 2 Kgs 23:16-18
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    16When Josiah turned around, he saw the tombs there on the hill. So he ordered the bones from the tombs to be brought; he burned them on the altar and defiled it, just as in the LORD’s message that was announced by the prophet while Jeroboam stood by the altar during a festival. Then the king turned and saw the grave of the prophet who had foretold this.

    17He asked,“What is this grave marker I see?” The men from the city replied,“It’s the grave of the prophet who came from Judah and foretold these very things you have done to the altar of Bethel.”

    18The king said,“Leave it alone! No one must touch his bones.” So they left his bones undisturbed, as well as the bones of the Israelite prophet buried beside him.

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    5I will place the corpses of the people of Israel in front of their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars.

  • Isa 14:19-20
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    19But you have been thrown out of your grave like a shoot that is thrown away. You lie among the slain, among those who have been slashed by the sword, among those headed for the stones of the Pit, as if you were a mangled corpse.

    20You will not be buried with them, because you destroyed your land and killed your people. The offspring of the wicked will never be mentioned again.

  • Jer 31:40
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    40The whole valley where dead bodies and sacrificial ashes are thrown and all the terraced fields out to the Kidron Valley on the east as far north as the corner of the Horse Gate will be included within this city that is sacred to the LORD. The city will never again be torn down or destroyed.”

  • Ezek 36:34
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    34The desolate land will be plowed, instead of being desolate in the sight of everyone who passes by.

  • Ezek 32:25
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    25Among the dead they have made a bed for her, along with all her hordes around her grave. All of them are uncircumcised, killed by the sword, for their terror had spread in the land of the living. They bear their shame along with those who descend to the Pit; they are placed among the dead.

  • Ezek 32:23
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    23Their graves are located in the remote slopes of the Pit. Her assembly is around her grave, all of them struck down by the sword, those who spread terror in the land of the living.

  • Ezek 32:27
    68%

    27They do not lie with the fallen warriors of ancient times, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, having their swords placed under their heads and their shields on their bones, when the terror of these warriors was in the land of the living.

  • Rev 11:9
    67%

    9For three and a half days those from every people, tribe, nation, and language will look at their corpses, because they will not permit them to be placed in a tomb.

  • Jer 25:33
    67%

    33Those who have been killed by the LORD at that time will be scattered from one end of the earth to the other. They will not be mourned over, gathered up, or buried. Their dead bodies will lie scattered over the ground like manure.

  • Ezek 37:7-8
    2 verses
    67%

    7So I prophesied as I was commanded. There was a sound when I prophesied– I heard a rattling, and the bones came together, bone to bone.

    8As I watched, I saw tendons on them, then muscles appeared, and skin covered over them from above, but there was no breath in them.

  • Jer 7:32-33
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    32So, watch out!” says the LORD.“The time will soon come when people will no longer call those places Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom. But they will call that valley the Valley of Slaughter and they will bury so many people in Topheth they will run out of room.

    33Then the dead bodies of these people will be left on the ground for the birds and wild animals to eat. There will not be any survivors to scare them away.

  • 2 Kgs 13:21
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    21One day some men were burying a man when they spotted a raiding party. So they threw the dead man into Elisha’s tomb. When the body touched Elisha’s bones, the dead man came to life and stood on his feet.

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    21His flesh wastes away from sight, and his bones, which were not seen, are easily visible.

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