Zaccaria 14:4

La Riveduta Bibbia

I suoi piedi si poseranno in quel giorno sul monte degli Ulivi ch’è dirimpetto a Gerusalemme a levante, e il monte degli Ulivi si spaccherà per il mezzo, da levante a ponente, sì da formare una gran valle, e metà del monte si ritirerà verso settentrione, e l’altra metà verso mezzogiorno.

Parallel Translations

La Nuova Diodati
In quel giorno i suoi piedi si fermeranno sopra il monte degli Ulivi che sta di fronte a Gerusalemme, a est, e il monte degli Ulivi si spaccher in mezzo da est a ovest, formando cos una grande valle; una met del monte si ritirer verso nord e laltra met verso sud.

Giovanni Diodati Bibbia
E i suoi piedi si fermeranno in quel giorno sopra il monte degli Ulivi, che è dirincontro a Gerusalemme, dal Levante; e il monte degli Ulivi sarà fesso per la metà, dal Levante al Ponente; e vi si farà una grandissima valle; e la metà del monte si ritrarrà verso il Settentrione, e l’altra sua metà verso il Mezzodì.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

his feet: Zechariah 14:7, Ezekiel 11:23, Ezekiel 43:2, Acts 1:11, Acts 1:12

cleave: Zechariah 4:7, Isaiah 64:1, Isaiah 64:2, Micah 1:3, Micah 1:4, Nahum 1:5, Nahum 1:6, Habakkuk 3:6, Mark 11:23

a very: Zechariah 14:10, Joel 3:12-14

half of the: Ezekiel 47:1-12

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 15:30 - the ascent 1 Kings 11:7 - the hill Job 9:5 - which overturneth Psalms 18:7 - foundations Ezekiel 38:20 - the fishes Hosea 2:18 - in that day Joel 3:2 - the valley Zechariah 12:3 - in that Zechariah 14:21 - in the Matthew 21:1 - the mount Matthew 24:7 - famines Mark 11:1 - at the Luke 19:29 - Bethany Luke 21:37 - mount Luke 24:44 - in the prophets

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives,.... Where he often was in the days of his flesh, and from whence he ascended to heaven, Luke 21:37 but here he did not appear at the time of the destruction of Jerusalem; wherefore this must refer to a time to come; and seeing it is certain that he will stand in the latter day on the earth, at the time of the resurrection, and will come down from heaven in like manner as he went up; it seems very probable that he will descend upon that very spot of ground from whence he ascended, Job 19:25. The Jews, e have a notion, that, at the general resurrection of the dead, the mount of Olives will cleave asunder, and those of their nation, who have been buried in other countries, will be rolled through the caverns of the earth, and come out from under that mountain. This is what they call "gilgul hammetim", the rolling of the dead; and "gilgul hammechiloth", the rolling through the caverns. So they say in the Targum of Song of Solomon 8:5.

"when the dead shall live, the mount of Olives shall be cleaved asunder, and all the dead of Israel shall come out from under it; yea, even the righteous, which die in captivity, shall pass through subterraneous caverns, and come from under the mount of Olives.''

This is sometimes f represented as very painful to the righteous; but another writer g removes this objection by observing, that at the time of the rolling through the caverns of the earth, we may say that this rolling will be of no other than of the bone "luz", out of which the whole body will spring; so that this business of rolling will be easy and without pain; but they are not all agreed about the thing itself: Kimchi says h,

"there is a division in the words of our Rabbins, concerning the dead without the land (i.e. of Israel); some of them say that those without the land shall come up out of their graves; and others say they shall come out of their graves to the land of Israel by rolling, and by the way of the caverns; but this verse Ezekiel 37:12 proves that those without the land shall live, as the dead of the land of Israel; for it says, "I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves"; and after that, "and I will bring you into the land of Israel".''

Which is before Jerusalem on the east; a sabbath day's journey from it, about a mile, Acts 1:12:

and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west; [and there shall be] a very great valley, and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south; and this valley will be made by cleaving and removing the mountain in this manner, to hold the dead together when raised; and this is thought by some to be the same with the valley of Jehoshaphat, called the valley of decision, into which the Heathen, being awakened and raised, will be brought and judged, Joel 3:2.

e Targum in Cant. viii. 5. f T. Bab. Cetubot, fol. 111. 1. g Judah Zabarah apud Pocock. Not. Miscell. p. 119. h Pirush in Ezek. xxxvii. 12.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And His feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives - “Over against Jerusalem to the east, wherein riseth the Sun of Righteousness.” The Mount of Olives is the central eminence of a line of hills, of rather more than a mile in length, overhanging the city, from which it is separated only by the narrow bed of the valley of the brook Cedron. It rises 187 feet above Mount Zion, 295 feet above Mount Moriah, 443 feet above Gethsemane, and lies between the city and the wilderness toward the dead sea: around its northern side, wound the road to Bethany and the Jordan . There, probably, David worshiped 2 Samuel 15:32; his son, in his decay, profaned it 1 Kings 11:7; Josiah desecrated his desecrations 2 Kings 23:13; there “upon the mountain, which is on the east side of the city, the glory of the Lord stood,” when it had “gone up from the midst of the city” Ezekiel 11:23; it united the greatest glory of the Lord on earth, His Ascension, with its deepest sorrow, in Gethsemane. Since the Angel said, “This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen Him go into heaven” Acts 1:11, the old traditional opinion is not improbable, that our Lord shall come again to judge the earth, where He left the earth, near the place of His Agony and Crucifixion for us. So shall “the Feet” of God literally, “stand upon the Mount of Olives.” Elsewhere it may be that “the Feet of the uncircumscribed and simple God are to be understood not materially, but that the loving and fixed assistance of His power is expressed by that name” (Dionysius).

Which is true, or whether, according to an old opinion, the last act of antichrist shall be an attempt to imitate the Ascension of Christ (as the first antichrist Simon Magus was said to have met his death in some attempt to fly) and be destroyed by His Coming there, the event must show.

And the Mount of Olives shall cleave - (be cleft) in (from) the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west that is, the cleft shall be east and west, so as to form a “very great valley” through it - from Jerusalem toward the Jordan eastward; and this shall be, in that “half of the mountain shall remove northward, and half thereof southward.” If this be literal, it is to form an actual way of escape from Jerusalem; if figurative, it symbolizes how that which would be the greatest hindrance to escape, the mountain which was higher than the city, blocking, as it were, the way, should itself afford the way of escape; as Zechariah speaks, “O great mountain, before Zerubbabel” thou shalt become a “plain” Zechariah 4:7; and Isaiah, “Every valley shall be exalted and every mountain and hill shall be brought low, and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain” Is. Isaiah 40:4; that is, every obstacle should be removed.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Zechariah 14:4. And his feet shall stand — He shall appear in full possession of the place, as a mighty conqueror.

And the mount of Olives shall cleave — God shall display his miraculous power as fully in the final restoration of the Jews, as he did when he divided the Red Sea that their forefathers might pass through dry-shod. Some refer this to the destruction of the city by the Romans. It was on the mount of Olives that Titus posted his army to batter Jerusalem. Here the tenth legion that came to him from Jericho was placed. JOSEPH. De Bello, lib. vi. c. 3. It was from this mountain that our Lord beheld Jerusalem, and predicted its future destruction, Luke 19:41, with Matthew 24:23; and it was from this mountain that he ascended to heaven, (Acts 1:12,) utterly leaving an ungrateful and condemned city.

And half of the mountain shall remove — I really think that these words refer to the lines of circumvallation, to intrenchments, redoubts, c., which the Romans made while carrying on the siege of this city and particularly the lines or trenches which the army made on Mount Olivet itself.