Ezekiel 39:11-13

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

¹¹And in that day, I will give to Gog a place for burial there in Israel, the valley of those who pass through on the east side in front of the [Dead] Sea [the highway between Syria, Petra, and Egypt], and it will delay and stop those who pass through. And there shall they ^[a]bury Gog and all his multitude, and they shall call it the Valley of Hamon-gog [multitude of Gog].

¹²For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them, that they may cleanse the land.

¹³Yes, all the people of the land will bury them, and it shall bring them renown in the day that I shall be glorified, says the Lord God.

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Footnotes

Ezekiel 39:11 The number of dead bodies left after the great catastrophe which God will send upon Gog and his hosts would necessarily amount to several millions. Their graves would naturally interfere with traffic on the interstate highway. The dead will not be slain in battle. God will slay them by a great “cosmic catastrophe” (Ezek. 38:18-23). And not just some, but “all” of Gog’s multitude will die then (Ezek. 39:4, 11); before they have had a chance to use their weapons, God will strike them from their hands (Ezek. 39:3). That one-sixth of the horde from the north will be left alive, as the King James Version says (Ezek. 39:2), is without noted exception conceded to be a mistaken translation by all authorities of modern times.