Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 39:10

10 So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord GOD.

Heb. And they shall not, &c.

This, as noted before, taken Potentially, or speaking what they might, not what they eventually should do, such store of fuel from the Weapons, and Utensils of War left by these Gogites, that the Jews will not need to go to the Forests to cut down Wood. Or else comparatively, as some will, what they shall need to fetch from the Forests shall be nothing in comparison to what they were wont to fetch.

They may if they will, 'tis not preceptive, to make it duty, nor doth it necessarily determin, that they must, but there were and would be for all that time, who would be burning these Weapons, and save the labour and cost of buying, and fetching Wood, and these, who should do this, I would look for among the poorer sort.

Strip the dead, rifle their Waggons, and Tents, searching what they may find of value and use, in which tis likely, the poor among the Jews would be earliest, and most diligent.

The Army of Gog, and his Followers.

'Twas not Theft or Robbery in the Iews to do this, though 'twas Robbery in Gog and his Company to spoil the Iews, but for decorum of the phrase, the Prophet useth the same word in both cases.