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Zechariah 14:5

in Zechariah 14

You will flee by My mountain valley, for it will extend to Azal. You will flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD my God will come, and all the holy ones with Him.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And ye shall flee by the valley of my mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azel; yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah; and Jehovah my God shall come, and all the holy ones with thee.

KJV

And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.

This verse in Zechariah 14

Commentary

10 notes on this verse

A commentator

Ambrose of Milan

On the Holy Spirit 2.11.119-20 · Written before 397.

Yet learn that the Son knows the day of judgment. We read in Zechariah: "And the Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with him. In that day there shall not be light but cold and frost, and it shall be one day, and that day is known to the Lord." This day, then, was known unto the Lord, who shall come with his saints to enlighten us by his second advent. But let us continue the point that we have commenced concerning the Spirit: "He shall glorify me."

This site's exposition

in the day of battle

on Zechariah 14:3-5

Then the Lord himself goes forth to fight, as when he fought in the day of battle, and his feet stand that day upon the mount of Olives, which cleaves in two, a great valley opening where the people flee as their fathers fled the earthquake in the days of Uzziah (the same earthquake Amos dates his own book by, Amos 1:1). The chapter reads the Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with thee, a wording the bench discusses against the ancient versions' with him, without resolving it past naming the variant. The site reads the day literally, a still-future day answered at Christ's bodily return, the reading that runs broadly across the premillennial and dispensational writers and that the early church itself received; the amillennial handling, which dissolves the mountain-splitting into a figure, has to set aside the passage's own geography to do it, and the note says so plainly.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers2 voices

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Zechariah · Written before 420.

proposed

(Verse 5) And the middle of the mountain will be separated to the north, and its middle to the south. And you will flee to the valley of my mountains, for the valley of the mountains will reach to the next, and you will flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of King Oshea of Judah, and the Lord my God will come, and all the holy ones with him. LXX: And the middle part of the mountain will incline to the north, and its middle part to the south. And the valley of my mountains will be closed off, and the valley of the mountains will reach Asael. And it will be filled as it was filled from the face of the earthquake in the days of King Oshea of Judah, and the Lord my God will come, and all the holy ones with him. Therefore, as we have said, you will flee, which the seventy and the other interpreters have translated as 'will be blocked' or 'will be filled'. And as we have stated, because the valley of the mountains will be joined up to the next one; for the next one, the seventy translators have rendered it as Asael. Aquila put the Hebrew word Asel, using the letter 'e' instead of 'i'. Theodotion used the extended form, Azel. Only Symmachus translated it as 'the next one', whom we have also followed. Let us say in a paraphrastic manner how the things that are written can come to pass: When the mountain of Olivet has been broken by a large chasm, so that one part of the chasm looks towards the East and the other towards the West, suddenly, in the very chasm itself, high cliffs on both sides will break away, and another chasm will be formed towards the North and another towards the South, and a square cliff will be made, so that the chasm stretches in four directions, towards the East and the West, the North and the South. And you will flee, he says, to the valley that is between the temple and Zion. […]

A commentator

Cyril of Jerusalem

Catechetical Lecture 13:24 · Written before 386.

proposed

Christ, then, was crucified for us; he was judged in the night, when it was cold, and therefore a fire of coal was laid. He was crucified in the third hour, and "from the sixth hour there was darkness until the ninth hour," but from the ninth hour there was light again. Are these details written down? Let us inquire. Zechariah says, "And it shall come to pass in that day, and there shall be no light but cold and frost through one day (the cold on account of which Peter warmed himself), and that day shall be known to the Lord." (What? Did he not know the other days? There are many days, but "this is the day [of the Lord's patience] the Lord has made.")6 "And that day shall be known to the Lord, and not day nor night." What dark saying does the prophet utter? That day is neither day nor night. What then shall we call it? The gospel interprets it, telling of the event. It was not day, for the sun did not shine without interruption from rising to setting, but from the sixth hour to the ninth there was darkness. The darkness was interposed, but God called the darkness night. Therefore it was neither all light, so as to be called day, nor all darkness, so as to be called night; but after the ninth hour the sun shone forth. This also the prophet foretells; for after saying "not day nor night," he adds, "And in the time of the evening there shall be light." Do you see the truth of the events foretold?

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

The valley of the mountains - A place provided of God for their safety. O Lord my God - As if it were said, though it will, O Lord, put us into fear; yet without such wonderful works we shall not see thy salvation; therefore, O Lord my God come, and bring thy holy ones with thee.
And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Who art thou, O great mountain? And a great mountain the ceremonial law was in the way of the Jews' conversion, which, one would think, could never have been got over; yet before Christ and his gospel it was made plain.
3 more voices on this verse

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains - Rather, along the valley of My mountains namely, of those mountains, which God had just formed by dividing the mount of Olives. “For the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal, that is, Azel,” the same word which enters into Beth-Azel of Micah, where the allusion probably is to its firm-rootedness. It is more probable that the name of a place should have been chosen with an allusive meaning, as in Micah, than that an unusual appellative should have been chosen to express a very common meaning.

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

Thus there are thirteen equal distances on the breadth of the future promised land, one for the oblation and twelve for the tribes, according to Eze 48:1-35. That the Euphrates north, Mediterranean west, the Nile and Red Sea south, are to be the future boundaries of the holy land, which will include Syria and Arabia, is favored by Ge 15:8;

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Ye shall flee to the valley - Some think this refers to the valley through which Zedekiah and others endeavored to escape when Nebuchadnezzar pressed the siege of Jerusalem: but it appears to speak only of the Jewish wars of the Romans. Azal - This, as a place, is not known. If a place, it was most probably near to Jerusalem; and had its name from that circumstance.

The words behind it

24 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְנַסְתֶּ֣םand you will flee

    venastemH5127159 times

  • גֵּֽיא־[the] valley of

    gei'-H151659 times

  • הָרַ֗יmountains my

    haraiH2022546 times

  • כִּֽי־for

    ki-H35884482 times

  • יַגִּ֣יעַit will reach

    yagia'H5060150 times

  • גֵּי־[the] valley of

    gei-H151659 times

  • הָרִים֮mountains

    harimH2022546 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H4135510 times

  • אָצַל֒Azal

    ʾatzalH682

  • וְנַסְתֶּ֗םand you will flee

    venastemH5127159 times

  • כַּאֲשֶׁ֤רjust as

    kaasherH8345497 times

  • נַסְתֶּם֙you fled

    nastemH5127159 times

  • מִפְּנֵ֣יfrom before

    mipeneiH64402123 times

  • הָרַ֔עַשׁthe earthquake

    haraashH7494

  • בִּימֵ֖יin [the] days of

    bimeiH31172304 times

  • עֻזִּיָּ֣הUzziah

    ʾuziyahH5818

  • מֶֽלֶךְ־[the] king of

    melekh-H44282525 times

  • יְהוּדָ֑הJudah

    yehudahH3063819 times

  • וּבָא֙and he will come

    uva'H9352568 times

  • יְהוָ֣הYahweh

    yahwehH30686520 times

  • אֱלֹהַ֔יGod my

    ʾelohaiH4302601 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H36055413 times

  • קְדֹשִׁ֖יםholy [ones]

    kedoshimH6918

  • עִמָּֽךְ׃[will be] with you

    ʾimakhH59731050 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Matthew 16:27

    For the Son of Man will come in His Father’s glory with His angels, and then He will repay each one according to what he has done.

    it leads to

    • Psalms 62:12

      and loving devotion to You, O Lord. For You will repay each man according to his deeds.

    • 2 Corinthians 5:10

      For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive his due for the things done in the body, whether good or bad.

    • Romans 2:6

      God “will repay each one according to his deeds.”

    • Romans 14:12

      So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God.

    • Jeremiah 17:10

      I, the LORD, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.

  • Through

    Matthew 25:31

    When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, He will sit on His glorious throne.

    it leads to

    • Revelation 1:7

      Behold, He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see Him—even those who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. So shall it be! Amen.

    • Matthew 19:28

      Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, in the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits on His glorious throne, you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve…

    • 2 Thessalonians 1:7–8

      and to grant relief to you who are oppressed and to us as well. This will take place when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels

Where this verse is studied

About Zechariah

This page draws on 11 works. Open the list of works

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Ambrose of Milan, On the Holy Spirit 2.11.119-20; Carl Friedrich Keil, The Twelve Minor Prophets; Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lecture 13:24; Edward Bouverie Pusey, The Minor Prophets: A Commentary; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Zechariah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.