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and tell them, ‘The Lord God says, "I will take the people of Israel from the nations where they have gone. I will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land.

I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. And one king will rule over all of them. They will no longer be two nations, and they will no longer be divided under two kings.

They will no longer make themselves unclean with their false gods, or with their hated objects of worship, or with any of their sins. I will keep them from turning again to these sins, and will make them clean. They will be My people, and I will be their God.

"My servant David will be their king, and they will have one shepherd. They will follow and keep My Laws, and obey them.

And they will live in the land that I gave to My servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They and their children and their children's children will live in it forever. And My servant David will be their leader forever.

I will live with them, and will be their God, and they will be My people.

You will say, ‘I will go up against the open country, where people are quiet and live in peace. They live in villages without walls and have no iron pieces or gates.'

I will show the many nations that I am great and holy. And they will know that I am the Lord."

"I will send fire upon Magog and upon those who think they are safe in the islands. Then they will know that I am the Lord.

"Then those who live in the cities of Israel will go out and make fires to burn up the objects of war. They will burn battle-coverings, bows and arrows, heavy sticks, and spears. For seven years they will use them to make fires.

They will not take wood from the field or from among the trees to burn. For they will make fires with the objects of war. And they will rob those who robbed them," says the Lord God.

"On that day I will give Gog a place in Israel for burying his dead. It will be the valley of those who travel east of the sea. And it will close that road to travelers, for Gog and all his people will be buried there. They will call it the Valley of Hamon-Gog.

All the people of the land will bury them, and they will be honored for this on the day that I show My greatness," says the Lord God.

"At the end of seven months, they will choose men to pass through the land to look for bodies that may be left on the ground. And the bodies will be buried to make the land clean.

(There will be a city called Hamonah there also.) And so they will make the land clean."'"

You will eat the flesh of powerful men, and drink the blood of the leaders of the earth. It will be as if they were rams, lambs, goats, and bulls, all of them fat animals of Bashan.

The nations will know that the people of Israel were taken from their land because of their sin, because they were not faithful to Me. So I hid My face from them and gave them over to those who hated them, and they died in battle.

I punished them because they were unclean and sinful, and I hid My face from them."'"

They will forget their shame and how unfaithful they were to Me, when they live in peace on their own land with no one to make them afraid.

Then they will know that I am the Lord their God, because I sent them away into the other nations and then gathered them again to their own land. And I will not leave any of them there any longer.