The city will be called Hamonah, which means 'multitude,' a name taken from the valley name, because there they buried the multitude of Gog—a verse that establishes place names commemorating the judgment. The naming of a city after the burial location perpetuates the memory of the invasion and its defeat; the landscape itself becomes a narrative of deliverance. The translation of the name (multitude) makes explicit the meaning and ensures that the memorial is not merely nominal but semantically significant. The recurrence of the place name in different contexts emphasizes the pervasiveness of the Gog memory in Israel's geography. This verse completes the account of burial and names that memorialize the judgment.

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