Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 21:30
Shall I cause [it] to return into his sheath? I will judge thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity.
30. Shall I return ] Return it into its sheath! Ammon is commanded to put back his sword to its sheath; his dreams of conquests abroad are vain, he shall be visited and destroyed in his own land. On “nativity” cf. Eze 16:3.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 30. I will judge thee] This seems to refer to Nebuchadnezzar, who, after his return from Jerusalem, became insane, and lived like a beast for seven years; but was afterwards restored, and acknowledged the Lord.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Some read it without interrogation, as an advice to the Ammonites to put up the sword they had drawn for their defence, as being to no purpose to resist. If it be an interrogation, it is such as more vehemently denieth, God will by no means suffer the sword to be sheathed; in this sense it refers to the sword of the Chaldeans.
Will judge thee; plead, condemn, and execute too.
Where thou wast created; explained by that which follows; though they might boast of their ancient original, and their safe and impregnable strengths, yet God will bring a sword into those very places, and there they should perish.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
30. Shall I cause it to return intohis sheathnamely, without first destroying Ammon. Certainlynot (Jer 47:6; Jer 47:7).Others, as the Margin, less suitably read it imperatively,”Cause it to return,” that is, after it has done the workappointed to it.
in the land of thynativityAmmon was not to be carried away captive as Judah, butto perish in his own land.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Shall I cause it to return into his sheath?…. The drawn and furbished sword of the Chaldeans? no, I will not; it shall never return or be put up until the Ammonites are utterly consumed. Some read these words in the imperative, as the Targum,
“return the sword to its sheath;”
so the Vulgate Latin version, “return to thy sheath”; and so may be considered as a direction to the Ammonites to put up their swords, and not stand in their own defence, since it would be to no purpose; though Jerom, and Grotius after him, take the words to be an apostrophe to the drawn sword of the Chaldeans to sheath itself, having done its work upon the Jews and Ammonites; or to the Chaldeans to return to Babylon, and where they also should be punished; and so interpret all that follows of the destruction of the Babylonians by the Medes and Persians; but the first sense is best:
I will judge thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity; not in the place where their father Ammon was born, which was at Zoar; but where they first became a kingdom and state, a body politic; or where the present generation of them were born; they should not be carried out of their own land, but destroyed in it.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(30) Shall I cause it to return?There is nothing in the original to indicate either a question, or that this is spoken in the first person. It is addressed to the Ammonites, Return it (the sword) into his sheath; and it means that all resistance will be vain, the coming destruction cannot be averted. And this judgment is to be executed in the Ammonites own country: they are to be destroyed at home.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
“Cause it to return to its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your birth, I will judge you. And I will pour out my indignation on you, and I will blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and I will deliver you into the hand of brutish men, skilful to destroy. You will be for fuel for the fire. Your blood will be in the midst of the land. You will be no more remembered. For I Yahweh have spoken it.”
Their vindictiveness has brought them also under God’s judgment, and they must desist. Indeed they have determined their own fate. Only that judgment now awaits them, and it will come on them in their own native land where they were first established as a nation, where God had watched over them too (Deu 2:19).
It is depicted in severe terms. God’s indignation, the fire of His wrath, being subjected to the hands of brutish war-skilled men, fuel for the fire, their land covered in blood, a nation destroyed. And in the end oblivion, to become a forgotten people, to the ancient the worst of all fates. And it is God Who has said it.
So while Jerusalem has faced the awful and seemingly final judgment of God there is here the recognition that there is hope for the future, for God has not taken His eye off them, and those who take advantage of them will themselves be destroyed.
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
Eze 21:30 Shall I cause [it] to return into his sheath? I will judge thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity.
Ver. 30. Shall I cause it to return? ] No, but it shall still eat your flesh and drink your blood, till none remaineth.
In the land of thy nativity.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Shall I cause it to return: or, Cause it to return, Eze 21:4, Eze 21:5, Jer 47:6, Jer 47:7
I will: Eze 16:38, Eze 28:13, Eze 28:15, Gen 15:14
in the: Eze 16:3, Eze 16:4
Reciprocal: 1Ch 21:27 – he put Eze 21:32 – thy blood
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Eze 21:30. The question is asked of Ammon if he thought that God would withhold the sword just because the diviners had predicted It so. The question was then answered in the negative and the Ammonites were warned of judgment in their own land.
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
Eze 21:30-32. Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? Shall the sword that is drawn to execute the judgments of God upon Ammon be put up in its sheath before it has done its work? Surely not. I will judge thee in the place where thou wast created That is, where thy nation first received its existence: thou shalt not be carried captive, but shalt be destroyed in thy own land. I will pour out mine indignation upon thee Which shall overwhelm thee as with a flood, and sweep thy nation into ruin. I will blow against thee, &c. To melt thee as it were in a furnace. See Eze 22:20-21. And deliver thee into the hand of brutish men The LXX. read, , of barbarous men, artificers of destruction; or, as we render it, skilful to destroy. Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire Thy country and cities shall be destroyed by fire. Thy blood shall be in the midst of the land A slaughter shall be made of thee in every part of thy country, and thy blood shall appear everywhere. Thou shalt be no more remembered The Jewish people still subsist, but the Ammonites are lost in the mass of mankind, and have been long forgotten.