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Zechariah 14:5

King James Version (KJV)

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Zechariah 14:5

Verse 5 of 21

Scripture focus

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.

Zechariah 14:5 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Zechariah 14:5

Theological / Devotional

Ye shall flee. A change in vowel pointing (see Vol. I, pp. 25, 26) gives the reading “shall be stopped up.” This change has the support of the LXX and the Targums. Either meaning is appropriate to the context.

Mountains. Literally, “my mountains.”

Azal. Heb. ’asal. This place cannot be identified. The LXX reads Iasol, probably to be identified with the wadi Yasul flowing into the Kidron. The reading “the side of it” (RSV) for “Azal” requires the addition of the suffix w, “of it,” in the Hebrew. The Heb. ’esel means “side.”

Earthquake. This is most probably the earthquake referred to in Amos 1:1.

Shall come. The coming of Christ is here foretold in terms of the circumstances mentioned in comments on v. 1. See Rev. 21:2; cf. GC 663 for the application of this prophecy to the postmillennial descent of the New Jerusalem.

Saints. Heb. qedoshim, literally, “holy ones.” The word is applied in the OT both to men (Deut. 33:3; etc.) and to angels (see on Job 15:15; cf. Jude 14).

Thee. The LXX and Syriac read “him.”

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