KJV King James Version
And also the name of the city [shall be] Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.
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Ezekiel 39:16
And also the name of the city [shall be] Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
(Even the city will be named Hamonah.) And so they will cleanse the land.
WEB World English Bible
Hamonah shall also be the name of a city. Thus shall they cleanse the land.
ASV American Standard Version
And Hamonah shall also be the name of a city. Thus shall they cleanse the land.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And also the name of the city is The multitude; and they have cleansed the land.
Surrounding context — Ezekiel 39
13 Yea, all the people of the land shall bury [them]; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
15 And the passengers [that] pass through the land, when [any] seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamongog.
16 And also the name of the city [shall be] Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, [even] a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
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