Ezekiel 39:16

Shall be Hamonah. — As a further monument of this great overthrow some city (not more definitely described, but probably yet to be built) shall be called “Multitude.”

Thus shall they cleanse the land. — The extremest defilement, according to the Mosaic law, was caused by a dead body or by human bones. From this the land could only be purified by the burial of the last vestige of the host of Gog. In the spiritual contest which this prophecy is designed to set forth under these material figures, this cleansing looks to the purification of the Church from everything “that defileth and is unclean.” (Comp. Ephesians 5:26; Revelation 21:27.)

With Ezekiel 39:17 the last part of this remarkable prophecy is introduced. Its representations are not to be considered as subsequent to those of the former part of the chapter, but as depicting the same thing under another figure.