⁹The people who live in the cities of Israel will go out and collect the abandoned weapons for firewood. They will build fires with the shields, bows, arrows, spears, and clubs, and will have enough to last for seven years. ¹⁰They will not have to gather firewood in the fields or cut down trees in the forest, because they will have the abandoned weapons to burn. They will loot and plunder those who looted and plundered them.” The Sovereign Lord has spoken.

The Burial of Gog

¹¹The Lord said, “When all this happens, I will give Gog a burial ground there in Israel, in Travellers’ Valley, east of the Dead Sea.^m Gog and all his army will be buried there, and the valley will be called ‘The Valley of Gog’s Army’. ¹²It will take the Israelites seven months to bury all the corpses and make the land clean again. ¹³Everyone in the land will help to bury them, and they will be honoured for this on the day of my victory. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken. ¹⁴After the seven months are over, men will be chosen to travel through the land in order to find and bury those bodiesⁿ remaining on the ground, so that they can make the land clean. ¹⁵As they go up and down the country, every time they find a human bone, they will put a marker beside it so that the grave diggers can come and bury it in the Valley of Gog’s Army. ¹⁶(There will be a town near by named after the army.) And so the land will be made clean again.”

¹⁷^*The Sovereign Lord said to me, “Mortal man, call all the birds and animals to come from all round to eat the sacrifice I am preparing for them. It will be a huge feast on the mountains of Israel, where they can eat meat and drink blood. ¹⁸^*They are to eat the bodies of soldiers and drink the blood of the rulers of the earth, all of whom will be killed like rams or lambs or goats or fat bulls. ¹⁹^*When I kill these people like sacrifices, the birds and animals are to eat all the fat they can hold and to drink blood until they are drunk. ²⁰^*At my table they will eat all they can hold of horses and their riders and of soldiers and fighting men. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken.”

The Restoration of Israel

²¹The Lord said, “I will let the nations see my glory and show them how I use my power to carry out my just decisions. ²²The Israelites will know from then on that I am the Lord their God.

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Footnotes

mHebrew has four additional words, the meaning of which is unclear.
nSome ancient translations those bodies; Hebrew the travellers.

Cross references

*39.17–20: Rev 19:17, 18
*39.17–20: Rev 19:17, 18
*39.17–20: Rev 19:17, 18
*39.17–20: Rev 19:17, 18