And you shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, you shall flee, like as you 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 him.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Flee. While the siege was forming many escaped, according to Josephus. Hebrew, Septuagint, "The vale of my mountains shall be filled up, for "(Calmet)
Yet Protestants agree with us. (Haydock)
Those should be "my. "(Ribera) (Menochius)
The next. Protestants and Septuagint, "reach unto Azal. "(Haydock)
You shall. Septuagint, "and it shall be filled, as it was filled at the earthquake "(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. (Josephus, Jewish Wars vi. 4, 14.)
Ozias, when he attempted to offer incense. (Josephus, Antiquities ix. 11.) (Amos i. 1., and 4 Kings xv. 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. Protestants, "thee. "(Haydock)
God is attended by his angels; though the Romans may be called his saints, or people destined to execute his decrees in this war, Isaias xiii. 3., and Sophonias i. 7., and Deuteronomy xxxiii. 3., and Joel iii. 1. (Calmet)
