Zaccaria 14:5

La Riveduta Bibbia

E voi fuggirete per la valle de’ miei monti, poiché la valle de’ monti s’estenderà fino ad Atsal; fuggirete, come fuggiste davanti al terremoto ai giorni di Uzzia, re di Giuda; e l’Eterno, il mio Dio, verrà, e tutti i suoi santi con lui.

Parallel Translations

La Nuova Diodati
Allora voi fuggirete per la valle dei miei monti, perch la valle dei monti si estender fino ad Atsal; s, fuggirete come fuggiste davanti al terremoto ai giorni di Uzziah, re di Giuda, cos lEterno, il mio DIO verr, e tutti i suoi santi saranno con te.

Giovanni Diodati Bibbia
E voi fuggirete nella valle de’ miei monti; perciocchè la valle di que’ monti giungerà fino ad Asal; e fuggirete come fuggiste per lo tremoto a’ dì di Uzzia, re di Giuda; e il Signore Iddio mio verrà; e tutti i santi saranno teco.

Bible Verse Review
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the mountains: or, my mountains, for the, etc. or, when he shall touch the valley of the mountains to the place he separated. ye shall flee. Numbers 16:34, Revelation 11:13, Revelation 16:18-21

ye fled: Isaiah 29:6, Amos 1:1

the Lord: Psalms 96:13, Psalms 97:4-6, Psalms 98:9, Isaiah 64:1-3, Isaiah 66:15, Isaiah 66:16, Daniel 7:9-14, Daniel 7:21-27, Matthew 16:27, Matthew 24:3, Matthew 24:27-31, Matthew 25:31, Mark 13:26, Mark 13:27, Luke 21:27, 2 Thessalonians 2:8, James 5:8, Jude 1:14, Jude 1:15, Revelation 6:16, Revelation 6:17, Revelation 20:4, Revelation 20:11

and all: Deuteronomy 33:2, Joel 3:11, 1 Thessalonians 3:13, 2 Thessalonians 1:7-10

Reciprocal: Exodus 19:18 - whole 1 Kings 19:11 - an earthquake 2 Chronicles 26:3 - Uzziah Job 9:5 - which overturneth Psalms 7:1 - O Psalms 50:5 - my saints Ezekiel 38:20 - the fishes Daniel 4:13 - an holy Daniel 7:10 - thousand thousands Daniel 8:13 - one saint Micah 7:17 - they shall be Habakkuk 3:6 - the everlasting Zechariah 2:10 - lo Zechariah 4:7 - O great Zechariah 11:4 - Lord Matthew 24:31 - gather Mark 8:38 - when 1 Corinthians 6:2 - the saints Ephesians 3:18 - with Hebrews 9:28 - he appear Revelation 6:12 - there Revelation 8:5 - an Revelation 19:14 - the armies

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And ye shall flee [to] the valley of the mountains,.... To seek for shelter and safety in them, for fear of the Lord, and the glory of his majesty, whom every eye shall see, Isaiah 2:19:

for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal; a name of a place not known; it may be thought to be at some considerable distance:

yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah; two years before which Amos prophesied, Amos 1:1 and which, according to Josephus i, was at the time when King Uzziah was stricken with a leprosy for invading the priest's office; when, as he says, at a place before the city called Eroge, half part of the mountain towards the west was broken, and rolled half a mile towards the eastern part, and there stood; so that the ways were stopped up to the king's gardens:

and the Lord my God shall come; the Lord Jesus Christ, who is truly God, and the God of his people; and who will appear to be so at his second coming, which is here meant, by raising the dead, gathering all nations before him, and separating them; by bringing to light all secret and hidden things; judging the whole world, and executing the sentence on them; and particularly by taking his own people to himself:

[and] all the saints with thee: the Targum, and the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions, read, "with him"; meaning either the holy angels; so Aben Ezra, Kimchi, and Ben Melech; who will attend him partly for the glory of his majesty, and partly for terror to the wicked, and also for service; or rather glorified saints, the spirits of just men made perfect, whom Christ will bring with him to be united to their bodies, which will now be raised, and to be with him in the new heavens and new earth, which will now be formed, and to be presented to him, and dwell with him, during the thousand years.

i Antiqu. l. 9. c. 10. sect. 4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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. Cyril had heard of it as the name of a village at the extremity of the mountain. Elsewhere it might very probably have been destroyed in the destructive Roman wars: The Roman camp in the last siege must have been very near it . The destruction of villages, after the frantic revolt under Bar-Kochba, was enormous.

Yea, ye shall flee like as ye fled from before the earthquake - An earthquake in the time of Uzziah, whose memory survived the captivity to the time of Zechariah, nearly two centuries, must have been very terrible, but no historical account remains of it, Josephus having apparently described the past earthquake in the language which Zechariah uses of the future (see the introduction to Amos). Such an earthquake is the more remarkable a visitation in Jerusalem, because it was out of the line of earthquakes. These were to the north and east of Palestine: within it, they were almost unknown (see Amos 4:11, vol. i. p. 286). Interpositions of God even in man’s favor, are full of awe and terror. They are tokens of the presence of the all-holy among the unholy. Fear was an accompaniment of special miracles in the Gospel, not only among the poor Gadarenes Mark 5:15; Luke 8:25, or the people , but even the Apostles ; apart from the effect of the sight of angels on us who are in the flesh . It is then quite compatible, that the valley so formed should be the means of deliverance, and yet an occasion of terror to those delivered through it. The escape of the Christians in Jerusalem to Pella, during the break of the siege, after the withdrawal of Cestius Gallus was a slight image of this deliverance.

And the Lord thy God shall come, and all the saints with Thee, O God - The prophet, having spoken of God as “my God,” turns suddenly to speak to Him, as present. Jerome on Zechariah 14:6-7 : “This is manifestly said of the second Coming of the Saviour, of which John too in his Apocalypse says, ‘Behold He shall come with the clouds, and every eye shall see Him, and they also which pierced Him’ Revelation 1:7. And the Lord Himself in the Gospel declareth, that ‘the Son of Man shall come in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory’ Matthew 24:30. He shall ‘come with the clouds,’ that is, with the angels, who are ‘ministering spirits’ and are sent for different offices, and with the prophets and apostles.” Ribera: “Whenever Scripture says that the saints and angels come with Christ, it is always speaking of His second Coming, as in that, ‘When the Son of Man shall come in His glory and all His holy angels with Him’ Matthew 25:31, and in the Epistle of Jude, ‘Behold the Lord cometh with ten thousand of His saints, to execute judgment’ Jude 1:14-15.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Zechariah 14:5. Ye shall flee to the valley — Some think this refers to the valley through which Zedekiah and others endeavoured 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.