Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.
Bible References
Cleanse
Ezekiel 39:14
“They will elect men who will constantly go through the land, [men commissioned] to bury those who were passing through, those bodies that lie unburied on the surface of the ground, in order to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they will do a search.
Numbers 19:16
Also, anyone in the open field who touches one who has been killed with a sword or who has died [of natural causes], or a human bone or a grave, shall be unclean for seven days.
Deuteronomy 21:23
his body shall not hang all night on the tree, but you shall most certainly bury him on the same day (for he who is hanged is cursed by God), so that you do not defile your land which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance.