The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Ezekiel 39:13 (NIV)

All the people of the land will bury them, and the day I display my glory will be a memorable day for them, declares the Sovereign Lord.

 

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Ezekiel 39:14 (NIV)

People will be continually employed in cleansing the land. They will spread out across the land and, along with others,
they will bury any bodies that are lying on the ground. “‘After the seven months they will carry out a more detailed search.

 

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Ezekiel 39:15 (NIV)

As they go through the land, anyone who sees a human bone will leave a marker beside it until the gravediggers bury it
in the Valley of Hamon Gog,

 

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Ezekiel 39:16 (NIV)

16 near a town called Hamonah. And so they will cleanse the land.’

 

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Ezekiel 39:17 (NIV)

“Son of man, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Call out to every kind of bird and all the wild animals: ‘Assemble and come
together from all around to the sacrifice I am preparing for you, the great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel. There you will
eat flesh and drink blood.

 

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Ezekiel 39:18 (NIV)

You will eat the flesh of mighty men and drink the blood of the princes of the earth as if they were rams and lambs, goats and bulls
—all of them fattened animals from Bashan.

 

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Ezekiel 39:19 (NIV)

At the sacrifice I am preparing for you, you will eat fat till you are glutted and drink blood till you are drunk.

 

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Ezekiel 39:20 (NIV)

At my table you will eat your fill of horses and riders, mighty men and soldiers of every kind,’ declares the Sovereign Lord.

 

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Ezekiel 39:21 (NIV)

‘I will display my glory among the nations, and all the nations will see the punishment I inflict and the hand I lay on them.

 

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Ezekiel 39:22 (NIV)

From that day forward the people of Israel will know that I am the Lord their God.

 

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Ezekiel 39:23 (NIV)

And the nations will know that the people of Israel went into exile for their sin, because they were unfaithful to me.
So I hid my face from them and handed them over to their enemies, and they all fell by the sword.

 

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Ezekiel 39:24 (NIV)

I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and their offences, and I hid my face from them.

 

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Ezekiel 39:25 (NIV)

‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will now restore the fortunes of Jacob and will have compassion
on all the people of Israel, and I will be zealous for my holy name.

 

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Ezekiel 39:26 (NIV)

They will forget their shame and all the unfaithfulness they showed towards me when they lived in safety in their land
with no one to make them afraid.

 

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Ezekiel 39:27 (NIV)

When I have brought them back from the nations and have gathered them from the countries of their enemies,
I will be proved holy through them in the sight of many nations.

 

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Ezekiel 39:28 (NIV)

Then they will know that I am the Lord their God, for though I sent them into exile among the nations,
I will gather them to their own land, not leaving any behind.

 

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Ezekiel 39:29 (NIV)

I will no longer hide my face from them, for I will pour out my Spirit on the people of Israel, declares the Sovereign Lord.’

 

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Ezekiel 40:1 (NIV)

In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after
the fall of the city – on that very day the hand of the Lord was on me and he took me there.

 

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Ezekiel 40:2 (NIV)

In visions of God he took me to the land of Israel and set me on a very high mountain, on whose south side were some
buildings that looked like a city.

 

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Ezekiel 40:3 (CSB)

He brought me there, and I saw a man whose appearance was like bronze, with a linen cord and a measuring rod in his hand.
He was standing by the city gate.