Scripture · Old Testament
Ezekiel 39:16
Ezekiel 39:16 is verse 16 of Ezekiel chapter 39, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
(Even the city will be named Hamonah.) And so they will cleanse the land.
Hamonah means multitude or horde.
King James Version
And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.
World English Bible
Hamonah will also be the name of a city. Thus they will cleanse the land.”’
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Ezekiel 39:14–18 · Berean Standard Bible
14 And men will be employed to continually pass through the land to cleanse it by burying the invaders who remain on the ground. At the end of the seven months they will begin their search.
15 As they pass through the land, anyone who sees a human bone will set up a pillar next to it, until the gravediggers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon-gog.
16 (Even the city will be named Hamonah.) And so they will cleanse the land.
17 And as for you, son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says: Call out to every kind of bird and to every beast of the field: ‘Assemble and come together from all around to the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you, a great feast on the mountains of Israel. There you will eat flesh and drink blood.
18 You will eat the flesh of the mighty and drink the blood of the princes of the earth as though they were rams, lambs, goats, and bulls—all the fattened animals of Bashan.
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