Ezekiel 39:16

16 And furthermore [the] name of [the] city [there] [is] Hamonah, and [thus] they will cleanse the land." '

Ezekiel 39:16 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 39:16

And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah
The name of the city nearest to this place, where Gog and his multitude shall be buried, shall be called Hamonah from thence, which signifies a multitude; or Polyandrion, as the Septuagint version, a place where many graves are; or perhaps a new city will be built near this place, and so called, to perpetuate the memory of it; or else, as Kimchi observes, Jerusalem will be so called, from the multitude of those that will be slain near it; but, however, neither that nor any other city in the land of Israel have ever bore any such name; from whence it may be concluded that this prophecy does not refer to the times of Antiochus, or any yet past, but to time to come: thus shall they cleanse the land;
thoroughly and completely, so that not a bone shall be left unburied.

Ezekiel 39:16 In-Context

14 ?"And they will set apart {men to continually} go through the land burying the travelers, the ones left over on [the] surface of the land to cleanse it; {for the whole of} seven months they will explore [it].
15 And the ones going through, they will go through within the land, and if [anyone] sees [the] bones of [a] person, [then] he will build beside it a sign [to remain] until the buriers have buried him in the Valley of Hamon-Gog.
16 And furthermore [the] name of [the] city [there] [is] Hamonah, and [thus] they will cleanse the land." '
17 "And you, son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'Say to {all kinds of birds and animals of the field}, "Be gathered, come be gathered {from everywhere} to my sacrifice that I [am] sacrificing for you, a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, and you will eat flesh, and you will drink blood.
18 Flesh of warriors you will eat, and the blood of leaders of the land you will drink; rams, young rams and goats, bulls, [and] the fattened animals of Bashan--all of them!

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