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
"Men will be assigned to travel continuously throughout the land, exploring for seven full months as they go about burying the bodies that remain from the battle on the surface of the ground, so that the land may be sterilized.
Numbers 19:16
Whoever is out in an open field and touches the body of someone who was killed by a sword, or a dead body, or someone's bones, or a grave, he is to be considered unclean for seven days.
Deuteronomy 21:23
his body must not remain overnight on the tree. You must bury him that same day, because cursed of God is the one who has been hanged on a tree. Don't defile your land that the LORD is about to give you as your inheritance."