Ezekiel 39:14 - Exposition

When the work of burying Gog should have gone on for seven months, at the end of that time the Israelites should sever out (comp. Deuteronomy 10:8 ) men of continual employment ; literally, men of con- t/nuance; i.e. persons hired for a continuous work or devoted to a constant occupation, whose business it should be passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain —or, as the Revised Version reads, to bury them that pass through , that remain—upon the face of the land. Here, again, the old play upon the word "passengers" recurs, and with it two or three difficulties.