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**Behold.** Figure of speech *Asterismos.* App-6 .
**the day of the LORD.** See note on [Isaiah 2:11](../../../kjv/isaiah/2/11) , [Isaiah 2:12](../../../kjv/isaiah/2/12) ; [Isaiah 13:6](../../../kjv/isaiah/13/6) .
**the LORD** . Hebrew. *Jehovah.* App-4 .
**thy,** (feminine). Referring to Jerusalem.

**I will gather** , &c. Referring to the yet future and final siege of Jerusalem. See App-53 .
**battle** = war. Not the same word as in [Zechariah 14:3](../../../kjv/zechariah/14/3) ,

**as** = just as,
**fought** . Compare [Joshua 10:14](../../../kjv/joshua/10/14) .
**battle** = close conflict. Not the same word as in [Zechariah 14:2](../../../kjv/zechariah/14/2) . Hebrew. *kerab.* First occurance. [2 Samuel 17:11](../../../kjv/2-samuel/17/11) .

**upon the mount of Olives.** This precludes the possibility of any reference to what is past. No amount of "poetical imagery" can rob this plain statement of the yet future literal interpretation of this prophecy.
**valley.** Between the northern and southern half of Olivet. See App-88 .

**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.** A new place, yet to have this name, at one extremity of the valley.
**the earthquake.** Referred to in [Amos 1](../../../kjv/amos/1) .
**saints** = holy ones: i.e. angels; as in [Job 5:1](../../../kjv/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](../../../kjv/job/5/1) .[Jude 1:14](../../../kjv/jude/1/14) , Compare [Deuteronomy 33:2](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/33/2) , [Deuteronomy 33:3](../../../kjv/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 a fulfilment, in any sense.

**clear** = light.
**dark** = dense.

**one day** = one [continuous] day, or one day by itself, unique. Compare [Psalms 118:21](../../../kjv/psalms/118/21) ,
**known to the LORD** . This forbids our assumptions, and should restrain our curiosity.
**not day, nor night** . Answering to "not bright, nor dense" in [Zechariah 14:6](../../../kjv/zechariah/14/6) .

**living waters** = fresh, running, or perennial waters. These are the waters of [Ezekiel 47](../../../kjv/ezekiel/47) .
**former** = eastern: i.e. the Dead Sea.
**hinder** = western: i.e. Mediterranean Sea.
**summer** . Not dried up by heat.
**winter.** Not congealed by frost.

**King over all the earth.** Compare [Zechariah 4:14](../../../kjv/zechariah/4/14) ; [Zechariah 6:5](../../../kjv/zechariah/6/5) .[Revelation 11:15](../../../kjv/revelation/11/15) .
**one.** Hebrew. *'ehad* . See note on [Deuteronomy 6:4](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/6/4) .

**a** = the.
**Gebe.** *Now Jeb'a,* six miles north of Jerusalem.
**Rimmon** . Now *Khan Umm er Rumamin* ([Nehemiah 11:29](../../../kjv/nehemiah/11/29) ).
**inhabited** = be inhabited.
**Benjamin's gate** . See [Jeremiah 20:2](../../../kjv/jeremiah/20/2) ; Jer 20:37 . Is; Zec 38:6 .
**corner gate** . Compare [2 Chronicles 26:9](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/26/9) .
**tower** . [Jeremiah 31:38](../../../kjv/jeremiah/31/38) . See App-59 .

**destruction** . Compare [Malachi 4:6](../../../kjv/malachi/4/6) , i.e. Anathema.
**Shall be** , &c. = shall abide in security. Reference to Pentateuch ([Leviticus 26:5](../../../kjv/leviticus/26/5) .) App-92 . Compare [Jeremiah 23:6](../../../kjv/jeremiah/23/6) . [Ezekiel 28:26](../../../kjv/ezekiel/28/26) ; [Ezekiel 34:25](../../../kjv/ezekiel/34/25) , [Ezekiel 34:28](../../../kjv/ezekiel/34/28) , &c.

**And this shall be,** &c. The subject now returns to the smiting of the nations. See the Structure, C, p. 1294
**people** = peoples.

**tumult** = panic,
**every one** . Heb *. 'ish,* App-14 .

**heathen** = nations.

**tents** = camps.
**as** = like. Some codices read "with".

**the King.** As in [Zechariah 14:2](../../../kjv/zechariah/14/2) . Jehovah will then be the universal Sovereign.
**the LORD of hosts.** See note on [Zechariah 1:3](../../../kjv/zechariah/1/3) .
**the feast of tabernacles.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Leviticus 23:34](../../../kjv/leviticus/23/34) , [Leviticus 23:43](../../../kjv/leviticus/23/43) .[Deuteronomy 16:16](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/16/16); [Deuteronomy 16:16](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/16/16) ), App-92 .

**rain** = the [periodic] rain.

**that have no rain.** This react with [Zechariah 14:17](../../../kjv/zechariah/14/17) makes no sense. Modern critics (with Revised Version margin) at once say "the text is probably corrupt". The *Ellipsis* must be supplied by repeating the words from the end of [Zechariah 14:17](../../../kjv/zechariah/14/17) thus "if . . . come not, [not upon them shall be no rain, but] upon them there shall be the plague" as aforesaid in [Zechariah 14:12](../../../kjv/zechariah/14/12) ). Egypt has no rain; hence this elliptical expression, Reference to Pant. ([Deuteronomy 11:10](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/11/10) ). App-92 .
**the** . Some codices, with five early printed editions (one Rabbinic, in margin), Sept Syriac, and Vulgate, read "all the".
**heathen** = nations. Some codices read "peoples".

**punishment.** Hebrew sin *(chata,* App-44 .) Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Cause), App-6 , for the punishment brought down by it.

**be upon** = he [inscribed] upon.
**HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Exodus 28:36](../../../kjv/exodus/28/36) ; [Exodus 39:30](../../../kjv/exodus/39/30) ). App-92 . For the large type see App-48 .

**seethe** = boil. Reference to Pentateuch ([Leviticus 6:28](../../../kjv/leviticus/6/28) ). App-92 . Compare [1 Samuel 2:13](../../../kjv/1-samuel/2/13) . [2 Chronicles 35:13](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/35/13) .[Ezekiel 46:20](../../../kjv/ezekiel/46/20) , [Ezekiel 46:24](../../../kjv/ezekiel/46/24) .
**the** = a.
**Canaanite** . This is the word which, divided into two in [Zechariah 11:7](../../../kjv/zechariah/11/7) , [Zechariah 11:11](../../../kjv/zechariah/11/11) , is rendered "the poor of the flock". As one word it means merchant, or trafficker; but it is also used as typical of what is unclean. Compare [Zephaniah 1:11](../../../kjv/zephaniah/1/11) .[Matthew 21:12](../../../kjv/matthew/21/12) .

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