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Is It Actually in the Bible?
Phrases people quote as Scripture. The real verse, or the honest answer that there is not one.
"The valley of the passengers" (Ezekiel 39:11): sounds like a highway rest stop for bus and plane passengers
"Passengers" in 1611 English just meant people passing through on foot, not riders in a vehicle.
Ezekiel 39:11, in every translation this tool compares.
Ezekiel 39:11 says God will give Gog "a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers." A modern reader hears "passengers" and thinks of people riding in a car, bus, or plane. But the word translates the Hebrew 'oberim, "those who pass through or over": ordinary travelers on foot or by caravan, walking the route through that valley.
The valley gets renamed "Hamon-Gog" (multitude of Gog) after it becomes a mass burial ground so vast that it blocks the road and literally "stops the nose" of anyone passing by, because of the stench. "Passengers" here is just an older, more literal use of the word (people in the act of passing by) centuries before it narrowed to mean someone riding along in a vehicle.
