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E - teſt by thele Ggires, that the Jews will not need to go to the Foreſts
\ che ſame word 1n both caſes.
Z ] will give unto Gog *t a place there of | graves « in [It- ” re), the valley x of the paſſengers on the eaſt y of che - fea; and it ſhall ſtop the || moſes & of the paſlengers : & and there ſhall they bury « Gog 5, and all his multi- © rude ; and they ſhall call z c, they valley of || Hamon-
” my. t And to many of thoſe were with him, for ſome were, wer. 4. = given to the Birds and Beaſts to be devoured.
BP Gog 1hall have a Grave in 1ſrae!. He came to rake Poſſeſſion, and fo
make a Prey of. He ſhall have one Place there, a Grave, as the He. trw. x This Valley hath here its Name and Situation ; the Name
Arabia Felix into the more Northern Parts, and from theſe again into
Epyj: and Arabia. y By its Situation it 1s on the Eait-ſide of th? Dead
F- Sa, todiſtinguiſh it from the Valley thar is on this ſide Fordan Weſt.
ward, in which is Dotham. Now in this Valley did the Fews diſcomfit {* the immonites, Moabites, Tyrians, and Sidonians, 1 Mac. 5. c This mighr » bea Typeor Firſt-fruits, and Afluranceof this great Vitory, bucno & more ; for this was of a few againſt a few, and in this Fighr of ſome, ” but few fell, &c. » The Stink of the putrifying Carcaſes ſhould make Travellers ſtop their Noſes, offended with the 11] Smells. @ Partly in # doing the Office of Humanity, though to dead Enemies, and ler their E Enemies live, who would not (for want of others) be fo civil rothem * when dead ; but chiefly ro remove the Nuiflance of Eye and Noſe, Z and to prevent Diſcaſes that riſe many times from ſuch Sme!ls 5 This ” Prince, whoever 'tis, ſhall there fall, and be buried wich h:s Multi. = tude. c This ſhall give Name to the Valley, which is ro be ca!!ed the © Valley of Hamon Gog, which Appellation I do not know to be give, ro any Valley as yer, probably becauſe this Prophecy is not yet fully # accompliſhed.
b: and it ſhall be to them <5 a renown 7 the day thar I ſhall be +: glorified &, faith the Lord GOD. |
> withthis Army. þ The Houle of 1ſ-ae!. i A Commendarion, Marter £2 of Praiſe, that did, like Men, bury the dead, who otherwiſe muſt > have been all Dung on the Face of the Earth ; and the ſweiling Hill - riſing from their buried Bones ſhall be a Monument to the Praiſe of 1/- ras Courteſy. ” be a Renown to Iſrael; as indeed 'tis an Honour rv be owned of God, ſowhen God ſhews he owneth ſuch , he gives them Honour among al] [; that obſerve it. & In the Deliverance of I1ſ-ael, and in th: DeftruSi.
& on bf Gog by my wonderful Power, in my juſt Zeal againſt miae
| Enemies, and for my
| ſearch ».
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65: nd voy meredmle, tat the warlike Utenſils of. fo ws; i il _ be enough to ſurniſh them with Fewel for 7 any Years, 97 MOI. = is
+» 5o 1 that they ſhall » take no wood out of the field, acither cut down azy out of tho foreſts : for they ſhall "Hurn the weapons with fire, and they. ſhall ſpoil p thoſe ar ſpoiled q them, and rob r thoſe that robbed them,
fich the Lord GOD. Se -
»y Heb. 4nd they ſhall not, &c. » This, as noted before, taken Setentially, Or ſpeaking what they might, not what they eventually {hculd do ; fuch ftore of Fuel from the Weapons and Utenſils of War
to cur down Wood : Or elſe comparatively, as ſome will, what they (all n:ed ro ferch from the Poreſts, ſhall be nothing in compariſon to what they were wont tO ferch. o They may if they will, tis not pre- --»:ve, © make ir Duty, nor doth it neceſſarily determine that they muſt; bur there were and would be for all char time, who would be burning theſe Weapons, and ſavethe Labourand Coft of buying and ferchin; Wood and theſe, who ſhould do this, I woule look for among the poorer ſort. p Strip the Dead, rifle their Wagons and Tents, ſearching what they may find of Value and Uſe, in which'tis likely che poor among the Jews would be earlieſt and moſt diligent.
The Army of Gog and his Followers »r "T wasnot Theft or Robbe. ry in the Jews to do this, though 'twas Robbery in Gog and his Com- pany to 1poil the Jews, but for dccorum of the Phrale the Propher uſeth
it & And it ſhall come to paſs at that day 5, that
02H : S When God ſhall have deſtroyed this Prince and his formidable Ar. Reaſons for burying theſe ſlaughtered Multirudes, the Humanity that Religion is full of would guide the Jews to it ; and God rells us, that he ſha!l, but not as he purpoſed and hoped, but as God intended ; Gog ſhall poſſeſs his Houſe of Darkneſs in that Land which he invaded ro
from the frequent Travels of Paſlengers through it from Egypt and
12 And ſeven months ſhall the d houſe of Iſrael be bu-
rying of them e, that they may cleanſe the land f. d Many of the Houſe of 1f-ae!, ſome voluntarily, others by Ap-
TEL Chap. XXXIX.
the firſt ſeven Months are expired, for during the ſeven Moaths there would be work for all of them to bury the dead and {lain 6f Gog's An -.. -. I5 And the paſſengers s that paſs throuzh the land, when any ſeeth a mans bone r, then ſhall he + fer up a ſign t Heb. by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of {| Ha- ©: bs mon-gog. | | hr ce 808 | multitude s Order fhould be taken to inform Travellers if they lighted on any ef Geg. Bone 'or Bones of Men, as they journicd, that they were delired ro ſet up ſome Mack at them, that thereby the publick Officers appointed to gather and bury them, might find and carry thole Bonus to the common Burying-place. © Many of Gog's Souldiers were torn by Beaſts, which if tome of the greater Beatts did, rhe lefler could not break and devour the Bones but with the Fleſh, theſe were dragged about by Beaſts, or ſcattered by the Eagles and Vultures, and fo lay divided from the Body 3 of thete the Prophet ſpeaks. y 6 16 Andalfo the name of the city # ſhi be || Hamonah : | +. e. #5 thus ſhall they cleanſe the land... Rc
z Either which is next to this common Tomb of Goz, as moſt lil:e- ly, or the City Jeruſalem, whoſe People, de'ivered, fanRiked, grate- tul, and magnifizd in the Eyes of the Narions by the wonderſul Mercy of. their God, ſhall be called by way of eminence, The Peoble, or Hr People, Hamonah. |
17 & And thou ſon of man, Thus ſaich the Lord
every beaſt &.of the field, * Aſſemble your ſelves a and ſev Emp | pl F . Ver} 7p, come, gather your ſelves on every ſide to my facrifice 7 *#