2 For aI will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem; The city shall be taken, The houses1 rifled, And the women ravished. Half of the city shall go into captivity, But the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
3 Then the Lord will go forth And fight against those nations, As He fights in the day of battle.
4 And in that day His feet will stand aon the Mount of Olives, Which faces Jerusalem on the east. And the Mount of Olives shall be split in two, From east to west, bMaking a very large valley; Half of the mountain shall move toward the north And half of it toward the south.
5 Then you shall flee through My mountain valley, For the mountain valley shall reach to Azal. Yes, you shall flee As you fled from the aearthquake In the days of Uzziah king of Judah. bThus the Lord my God will come, Andcall the saints with You.
6 It shall come to pass in that day That the1re will be no light; The lights will diminish.
7 It shall be one day aWhich is known to the Lord— Neither day nor night. But at bevening time it shall happen That it will be light.
8 And in that day it shall be That living awaters shall flow from Jerusalem, Half of them toward1 the eastern sea And half of them toward1 the western sea; In both summer and winter it shall occur.
9 And the Lord shall be aKing over all the earth. In that day it shall be— b“The Lordis one,” And His name one.
10 All the land shall be turned into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be raised up and ainhabited in her place from Benjamin’s Gate to the place of the First Gate and the Corner Gate, band from the Tower of Hananel to the king’s winepresses.
11Thepeople shall dwell in it; And ano longer shall there be utter destruction, bBut Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.
12 And this shall be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the people who fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh shall1 dissolve while they stand on their feet, Their eyes shall dissolve in their sockets, And their tongues shall dissolve in their mouths.
13 It shall come to pass in that day Thataa great panic from the Lord will be among them. Everyone will seize the hand of his neighbor, And raise bhis hand against his neighbor’s hand;
The object of the cleaving of the mount in two by a fissure or valley (a prolongation of the valley of Jehoshaphat, and extending from Jerusalem on the west towards Jordan, eastward) is to open a way of escape to the besieged (compare Joel 3:12, Joel 3:14). Half the divided mount is thereby forced northward, half southward; the valley running between. The place of His departure at His ascension shall be the place of His return: and the "manner" of His return also shall be similar (Acts 1:11). He shall probably "come from the east" (Matthew 24:27). He so made His triumphal entry into the city from the Mount of Olives from the east (Matthew 21:1-10). This was the scene of His agony: so it shall be the scene of His glory. Compare Ezekiel 11:23, with Ezekiel 43:2, "from the way of the east.
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