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lands. Then they shall know that I am the And drink blood till you are drunk,
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LORD. So I will make My holy name known in At My sacrificial meal
the midst of My people Israel, and I will not let Which I am sacrificing for you.
them profane My holy name anymore. Then 20 You shall be filled at My table
the nations shall know that I am the LORD, the With horses and riders,
Holy One in Israel. Surely it is coming, and it With mighty men
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shall be done,” says the Lord GOD. “This is the And with all the men of war,”
day of which I have spoken. says the Lord GOD.
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will go out and set on fire and burn the weapons, “I will set My glory among the nations; all
both the shields and bucklers, the bows and the nations shall see My judgment which I
have executed, and My hand which I have laid
arrows, the javelins and spears; and they will on them. So the house of Israel shall know
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make fires with them for seven years. They that I am the LORD their God from that day for-
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will not take wood from the field nor cut down ward. The Gentiles shall know that the house
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any from the forests, because they will make of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity;
fires with the weapons; and they will plunder because they were unfaithful to Me, therefore
those who plundered them, and pillage those I hid My face from them. I gave them into the
who pillaged them,” says the Lord GOD. hand of their enemies, and they all fell by the
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give Gog a burial place there in Israel, the val- sword. According to their uncleanness and
according to their transgressions I have dealt
ley of those who pass by east of the sea; and it with them, and hidden My face from them.” ’
will obstruct travelers, because there they will 25 “Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Now I
bury Gog and all his multitude. Therefore will bring back the captives of Jacob, and have
they will call it the Valley of Hamon Gog. For mercy on the whole house of Israel; and I will
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seven months the house of Israel will be bury- be jealous for My holy name— after they
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ing them, in order to cleanse the land. In- have borne their shame, and all their unfaith-
deed all the people of the land will be burying, fulness in which they were unfaithful to Me,
and they will gain renown for it on the day that when they dwelt safely in their own land and no
I am glorified,” says the Lord GOD. “They will one made them afraid. When I have brought
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set apart men regularly employed, with the them back from the peoples and gathered
help of a search party, to pass through the land them out of their enemies’ lands, and I am hal-
and bury those bodies remaining on the lowed in them in the sight of many nations,
ground, in order to cleanse it. At the end of 28 then they shall know that I am the LORD their
seven months they will make a search. The God, who sent them into captivity among the
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search party will pass through the land; and nations, but also brought them back to their
when anyone sees a man’s bone, he shall set up land, and left none of them captive any longer.
a marker by it, till the buriers have buried it in 29 And I will not hide My face from them any-
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the Valley of Hamon Gog. The name of the more; for I shall have poured out My Spirit on
city will also be Hamonah. Thus they shall the house of Israel,’ says the Lord GOD.”
cleanse the land.” ’ In the twenty-fifth year of our captivity,
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“And as for you, son of man, thus says the 40 at the beginning of the year, on the
Lord GOD, ‘Speak to every sort of bird and to tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year
every beast of the field:
after the city was captured, on the very same
“Assemble yourselves and come; day the hand of the LORD was upon me; and
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Gather together from all sides to My He took me there. In the visions of God He
sacrificial meal took me into the land of Israel and set me on a
Which I am sacrificing for you, very high mountain; on it toward the south
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A great sacrificial meal on the was something like the structure of a city. He
mountains of Israel, took me there, and behold, there was a man
That you may eat flesh and drink whose appearance was like the appearance of
blood. bronze. He had a line of flax and a measuring
18 You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, rod in his hand, and he stood in the gateway.
Drink the blood of the princes of the 4 And the man said to me, “Son of man, look
earth, with your eyes and hear with your ears, and
Of rams and lambs, fix your mind on everything I show you; for
Of goats and bulls, you were brought here so that I might show
All of them fatlings of Bashan. them to you. Declare to the house of Israel
19 You shall eat fat till you are full, everything you see.” Now there was a wall all
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