Ezekiel 39:14

When the remains that are visible shall all have been buried, men shall be appointed whose continual task it shall be to go through the land to search for any bones that may have been overlooked. When they find a bone they shall set up a sign beside it that the buriers may come and inter it (Ezekiel 39:15).

of continual employment lit. continual men (same phrase as "continual" burnt-offering), men constantly occupied.

with the passengers The words should probably be omitted with LXX. Read: to bury those that remain, &c. After seven months have been consumed in burying the masses of the dead everywhere visible, occasional bodies or bones may still be left, having escaped notice. These shall be diligently searched for by the "continual men." Those who would retain the words "them that pass through" (passengers of A.V.) here read, to bury them that pass through(i.e. the invaders), even those that remain(cf. R.V.). The construction is unnatural, and any play of words between two classes of "passers through," viz. invaders and searchers, has no probability. In Ezekiel 39:15 "those that pass through," i.e. the searchers, are distinguished from the buriers, and a reader finding "buriers" in the present verse assumed that they were different from the searchers, and added "with those that pass through" (the searchers) on the margin.