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the house of Israel

"the Israelites" or "the Israelite people group". See Ezekiel 3:1.

will bury them in order to purify the land

In Jewish law, a dead body defiled anything it touched and made it "unclean." Burying these bodies is spoken of as cleansing or purifying the land.

bury them

"bury the soldiers of Gog's army"