Ezekiel 39:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

They, the rulers in Israel, shall sever out, choose out men who shall make it their work. Passing through; to go up and down over the whole land, for many of Gog's wounded, flying soldiers died in thickets, and by corners into which they crept, when they could go no further. With the passengers; whose assistance they would desire of courtesy, or command by order, and that with reason, all this care and labour for burying the dead tending to their good, that they might unoffended travel whither they were going. That remain unburied by the public labour of the house of Israel during the seven months. To cleanse it: a legal cleansing, if-referred to Antiochus Epiphanes's times, but not so with those that refer it to a season not yet come, for all legal ceremonies are ended: when Gog's army shall be destroyed and buried, the land shall be cleansed from the stench and noisomeness of these carcasses. These officers begin their work after the first seven months are expired, for during the seven months there would be work for all of them to bury the dead and slain of Gog's army.