Zechariah 14:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

the mountains. My mountains. So called because of the physical change which HE will yet bring about, in the two new mounts formed out of one.

Azal.. new place, yet to have this name, at one extremity of the valley.

the earthquake. Referred to in Amos 1.

saints. holy ones: i.e. angels; as in Job 5:1, &c. Figure of speech Hysteresis. App-6.

God. Hebrew. Elohim. App-4.

and. Some codices, with Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read this "and" in the text.

the. Some codices with Aramaean and Syriac, read "his".

saints. holy ones: i.e. angels; as in Job 5:1.Jude 1:14, Compare Deuteronomy 33:2; Deuteronomy 33:3.

Thee. Some codices with Aramaean and Syriac, read "him". This takes us on to the Second Advent. No "flight to Pella" can be accepted as. fulfilment, in any sense.

Zechariah 14:5

5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains;a 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.