Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 30:15
And I will pour my fury upon Sin, the strength of Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude of No.
15. Sin, called here the “bulwark of Egypt,” is usually identified with Pelusium, which lying on the N. E. frontier of the country might be considered the key to it.
multitude of No ] i.e. No-Amon (Nah 3:8) or Thebes, the capital of Upper Egypt, Jer 46:25.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 15. My fury upon Sin] Pelusium, a strong city of Egypt, on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Will pour my fury: see Eze 21:31.
Sin; either Sain, or more likely Pelusium, which was a frontier, and secured the entrance of Egypt from the desert of Sin, was the key of Egypt, and therefore always well fortified and strongly garrisoned; it was called Damtiata.
The strength of Egypt; one of the principal munitions of Egypt; for it was a good and large haven, and was strengthened with all needful fortifications.
The multitude, or the riches and tumultuous noise which the multitudes thereof made. If we read as the margin, it is plain, God does threaten Pelusium after No is cut off; if we retain our own translation, we must think of another city of that name, which God threatens with Sin. Now this may be Thebe Egyptiacae or this city may be Hamon No, called Diospolis, the city of Jupiter; possibly it may be the same mentioned already, and the threat repeated to confirm it.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
15. Sinthat is, Pelusium, thefrontier fortress on the northeast, therefore called “thestrength (that is, the key) of Egypt.” It stands in antithesisto No or Thebes at the opposite end of Egypt; that is, I will afflictEgypt from one end to the other.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And I will pour out my fury upon Sin, the strength of Egypt,…. Either the city Sais, as the Septuagint and Arabic versions; or rather Pelusium, as the Vulgate Latin version, so called from “pelos” which signifies “clay” in the Greek language; and the same “Sin” signifies in the Chaldee, Ps 18:43, and as now called Tineh, from
, “clay”: it had a very fine haven, and may be called the strength of Egypt, it lying at the entrance of it; and having a strong fortified tower, it was difficult to enter into it; but could not stand before the wrath and fury of the Lord of hosts, when he sent the Chaldeans to it. It is thought by some to be the same with Pithom, built by the first of the pastor kings of Egypt, and fortified by him, Ex 1:11, according to Manetho z, he put into it a garrison of two hundred and forty thousand men; and the same writer says it contained ten thousand acres of land; according to Adrichomius a, it was two and a half miles in compass, and near it was a vast hollow, which extended to Mount Cassius, and which made the way into Egypt on that side difficult; and is now, as he says, called “campus de Gallo”; in which he is mistaken, as well as Thevenot, and others, who take it to be the same with Damieta:
and I will cut off the multitude of No; the numerous inhabitants of it; hence called “populous No”, Na 3:8, or “Hamon No”;
[See comments on Eze 30:14]; here, as before observed, the Septuagint version renders it Memphis; as does also the Arabic version. Some take it, as before, to be the Egyptian Thebes, where was a temple dedicated to Jupiter Hammon; and which city, Pausanias b says, was reduced to nothing in his time.
z Apud Joseph. contr. Apion. l. 1. c. 14. a Theatrum Terrae Sanctae, p. 122, 123. b Arcadica, sive l. 8. p. 509. Vid. Juvenal. Satyr. 15. ver. 6.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(15) Sin is Pelusium, so called from the marshes around it, on the easternmost branch of the Nile, only two-and-a-half miles from the sea. It was the frontier city, strongly fortified, and considered rightly as the key of Egypt, and hence called in the text its strength. It is mentioned again in Eze. 30:16. The expression, distresses daily (literally, by day), applied to Noph (Memphis), is a difficult one; it is understood by many as perpetually, but more probably means distresses in the open day. Its enemies shall make no covert attack, but come upon it boldly.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
15. Sin Supposed to be Pelusium. The Egyptian name for Pelusium has not yet been found, but the meaning of Sin in Hebrew corresponds exactly to that of Pelusium in Greek. This city guarded the northern entrance into Egypt. To-day its site is marked by yellow sand and a poisonous swamp.
Multitude of No In Hebrews (almost) Amon No. (Compare Eze 30:14.)
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Eze 30:15. Sinthe multitude of No Pelusium, a strong city on the frontiers of Egypt. Bochart and Michaelis. See Nah 3:8.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Eze 30:15 And I will pour my fury upon Sin, the strength of Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude of No.
Ver. 15. And I will pour my fury upon Sin. ] a Called afterwards Pelusium, and now Damiata.
The strength of Egypt.
a Deserto Sinis nomen dedit.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Sin = Pelasium, in the Egyptian delta. See Eze 29:10. the multitude of No. Heb Hamon = No. Compare Eze 30:14.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
I will pour: Psa 11:6, Nah 1:6, Rev 16:1
Sin: or, Pelusium, Now Tineh, a town of Egypt, situated at the eastern extremity of the Delta, twenty stadia from the Mediterranean, near the lake of Menzaleh, and upon a branch of the Nile, to which it gave name. It was the key of Egypt on the side of Judea and Syria, and was therefore strongly fortified and garrisoned; but it is now quite in ruins.
Reciprocal: Exo 16:1 – Sin Eze 7:8 – pour
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Eze 30:15. Strength is from an original word that Strong defines, A fortified place; figuratively a defence, and the city of Sin is so described. The prediction is that with such a city on which to rely, it nevertheless will prove a failure as help for the Egyptians when the Lord brings the invading army against it.
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
God would also judge the people living in Sin (Gr. Pelusium), one of the northernmost strongholds of Egypt, and He would allow the walls of No (Thebes) to be breached and its people slain. Noph (Memphis) would also experience daily distress during the war.