You shall flee by the valley of my mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azel. Yes, you shall flee, just like you fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. The LORD my God will come, and all the holy ones with you.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 5. Flee. Whle the siege was forming many escaped, according to Josephus. Hebrew Septuagint and so forth “The vale of my mountain shall be filled up, for,” and so forth Calmet.—Yet Prot. agree with us. Bible.—Those should be “my.” Ribera. Menochius.—The next. Prot. and Septuagint “reach unto Azal.” Bible.—You shall. Septuagint and so forth “and it shall be filled, as it was filled at the earthquake,” and so forth Calmet.—The Romans had to raise many works in the vale of Cedron, so that the trees all round were cut down, and the garden walls removed thither. Jos. B. vi. 4. 14.—Ozias, when he attempted to offer incense. Jos. Ant. ix. 11. Amos 1:1 and 4 Kennicott. 15:15.—Yet the earthquake is not specified in the sacred historical books. Worthington.—On that occasion, the people retired into the vale formed by the separation of Olivet; or, if we follow the Septuagint part of that mountain fell into the valley of Cedron, which we find nowhere else specified. Calmet.—With him. Prot. “thee.” Bible.—God is attended by his angels; though the Romans may be called his saints, or people destined to execute his decrees in this war. Isaiah 13:3. Zephaniah 1:7. Deuteronomy 33:3. Joel 3:1. Calmet.
Septuagint reads “him” instead of “you”.