Matthew Poole and continuators on Zechariah 14:5

5 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 dayes of Uzziah king of Judah, and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.

You that are members of the Church, and whom God doth in wonderful power, and majesty come to save.

Fill'd with apprehensions of such strange things, and troubled at the convulsions, and struglings of Nations against God, and you; shall as in a great fear fly to some place of safety, and repose; you will fly the valley it self which God maketh; by terrible things in righteousness doth God answer, and his people tremble before him when he cometh to save them; so here are represented to us a people wonderfully saved, and astonished at the methods of it, God makes valleys in the midst of Mountains, and they (for whose good they are made) fly those valleys. So the words were better read, our Marginal readings and the Gallic Version do so read it.

Or although, or notwithstanding, this valley reach to Azal, which speaks say some a separate place, i. e. provided of God for their safety, a Zoar for Lot, or Pella for the Citizens of Jerusalem. They shall as is usual in great frights and consternation of mind not see how safe they are, or whither to go, but some will run for a while from or beyond their Refuge.

This was some dreadful Earthquake, and put the People into a mighty fear, and made them fly in all haste, 'tis mentioned Amos 1.1. and the Prophet tells us, that when God shakes the Kingdoms of his Enemies, to make a plain, and level way for his ransom'd ones it shall make them fly for fear too.

As thus rendred it gives reason of this commotion of mind and this hasty flight. But it would be plainer if it were as it may be (I think) read. And or, yet O Lord my God come, and bring all the Saints with thee. As if 'twere said, Though 'twill, O Lord, put us into such fears; yet without such wonderful works we shall not have our hopes, nor see thy Salvation; therefore, O Lord my God come, and bring thy Saints, holy ones, Angels with thee, and so will this be like tha[illegible: 1 letter] of St. John, Rev. 22.20. shutting up the Visions of the New Heaven, and the New Earth, and the Appendages of them with, Come Lord Jesus.

Marginal references: Or, [illegible: 1 span]; Or, [illegible: 1 span]