To cleanse the holy land from the defilement caused by the corpses of these heathen hordes, the common people were to spend seven months in collecting and burying them, in a place appointed for that purpose east of the Dead Sea; and after that, to ensure the absolute holiness of the land, permanent officials were to be appointed to go through it scrupulously marking every spot where even a bone was found that it might be buried in the proper place, and the land cleansed of all defilement. (In Ezekiel 39:11 after place add, with LXX, of renown. For of them that pass through, read with different pointing of the Abarim, i.e. some valley at the N.E. corner of the Dead Sea. For it shall stop, etc. we should perhaps read, and they the Israelites shall close (the mouth of) the valley. Hamon means multitude. In Ezekiel 39:14 omit them that pass through. The first half of Ezekiel 39:16 is obscure.)
Ezekiel 39:11-16
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.
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 mene 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 upf 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.g Thus shall they cleanse the land.