All the people of the land will bury them, and it will bring them renown on the day I display My glory, declares the Lord GOD.
God speaks of this victory as already done, though the fulfillment lies ahead, because it is as certain as if accomplished. The routed army leaves behind such mountains of weapons that Israel will burn them for fuel seven years instead of cutting wood from the forests, turning the instruments of war into the ordinary means of warming their homes.
AI summary
Commenting on Ezekiel 39:8-22
Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them,.... That is, a great number of the common people of the land of Israel, especially of those that dwell near the field of battle, shall be employed in burying the slain; and which they will be very ready to do, for the reasons above mentioned: and it shall be to them a renown; or, "for...
I . . . glorified--in destroying the foe (Eze 28:22).