And when these travel through the land and anyone sees a human bone, then he shall set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon-gog.
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.
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Commenting on Ezekiel 39:8-22
A traveler passing through happens on a human bone and sets up a stone by it as a marker. That sign stays there until the searchers come, collect the bone, and carry it to the valley of Hamon-gog for burial; bones found scattered were never buried where they lay, but gathered into that common place of sepulture.
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The mark warns others away from defilement by accidental contact with the bone and signals the buriers where to find it. This painstaking care to remove every relic of heathen pollution from the Holy Land shows God's concern for the land's sanctity.
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