Ezekiel 39: Gog Defeated and Israel Restored

God declares that Gog’s army will fall on Israel’s mountains, so that His holy name is honored in Israel and among the nations. Israel burns the enemy’s weapons and buries the dead to purify the land, and the nations learn the exile was judgment for sin. God promises to bring His people home and give them His Spirit.

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Why do the Israelites bury the bodies of Gog’s fallen army (39:12, 16)?

To claim the valley as a new place of worshipTo keep the nations from learning of the battleTo make the land clean from the defilement of deathTo honor Gog as a great king who had fallen