Ezekiel Chapter 39 verse 16 Holy Bible
And Hamonah shall also be the name of a city. Thus shall they cleanse the land.
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And there they will put all the army of Gog in the earth. So they will make the land clean.
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And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.
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And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.
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Hamonah shall also be the name of a city. Thus shall they cleanse the land.
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And also the name of the city `is' The multitude; and they have cleansed the land.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 16. - As another mark to distinguish Gog's tomb, a city should arise in its vicinity, bearing the name Hamonah, or "Multitude" (comp. Isaiah 19:18, "the city of destruction"), though Schmieder thinks it must have been "a city of graves," since a city of houses could not exist in such a valley of the dead, and indeed the LXX. gives as the city's name Πολυάνδριον, by which later Greek writers were accustomed to call the common ground in a cemetery as distinguished from its paternal sepulchers. If quite improbable that Bethshan or Scythopolis near Megiddo was Ezekiel's Hamonah, it is possible the actual city may have been named after the ideal. Plumptre cites as a modern parallel the English town of Lichfield (or "Field of corpses"), which, according to tradition, commemorates the destruction of the Danes. When the work of the buriers should be finished, the land would be completely cleansed.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(16) Shall be Hamonah.--As a further monument of this great overthrow some city (not more definitely described, but probably yet to be built) shall be called "Multitude."Thus shall they cleanse the land.--The extremest defilement, according to the Mosaic law, was caused by a dead body or by human bones. From this the land could only be purified by the burial of the last vestige of the host of Gog. In the spiritual contest which this prophecy is designed to set forth under these material figures, this cleansing looks to the purification of the Church from everything "that defileth and is unclean." (Comp. Ephesians 5:26-27; Revelation 21:27.)With Ezekiel 39:17 the last part of this remarkable prophecy is introduced. Its representations are not to be considered as subsequent to those of the former part of the chapter, but as depicting the same thing under another figure.
