Where is azel

He shall 'come with the clouds,' that is, with the angels, who are 'ministering spirits' and are sent for different offices, and with the prophets and apostles.

The valley made by the cleaving asunder of the Mount of Olives Zec is designed to be their way of escape, not their place of refuge [Maurer]. Jerome is on the side of English Version. If it be translated so, it will mean, Ye shall flee "to" the valley, not to hide there, but as the passage through which an escape may be effected.

The same divinely sent earthquake which swallows up the foe, opens out a way of escape to God's people. The earthquake in Uzziah's days is mentioned Am as a recognized epoch in Jewish history. Compare also Isa perhaps the same year that Jehovah held His heavenly court and gave commission to Isaiah for the Jews, an earthquake in the physical world, as often happens Mt , marked momentous movements in the unseen spiritual world.

Or, the mountains formed by My cleaving Olivet into two [Maurer]. Azal—the name of a place near a gate east of the city. The Hebrew means "adjoining" [Henderson]. Others give the meaning, "departed," "ceased. Lord my God … with thee—The mention of the "Lord my God" leads the prophet to pass suddenly to a direct address to Jehovah.

It is as if "lifting up his head" Lu , he suddenly sees in vision the Lord coming, and joyfully exclaims, "All the saints with Thee! Compare the similar mention of the "saints" and "angels" at His coming on Sinai De , 3; Ac ; Ga ; Heb Phillips thinks Azal is Ascalon on the Mediterranean. An earthquake beneath Messiah's tread will divide Syria, making from Jerusalem to Azal a valley which will admit the ocean waters from the west to the Dead Sea.

The waters will rush down the valley of Arabah, the old bed of the Jordan, clear away the sand-drift of four thousand years, and cause the commerce of Petra and Tyre to center in the holy city. The Dead Sea rising above its shores will overflow by the valley of Edom, completing the straits of Azal into the Red Sea.

Euphrates will be the north boundary, and the Red Sea the south. Twenty-five miles north and twenty-five miles south of Jerusalem will form one side of the fifty miles square of the Lord's Holy Oblation Eze There are seven spaces of fifty miles each from Jerusalem northward to the Euphrates, and five spaces of fifty miles each southward to the Red Sea. Thus there are thirteen equal distances on the breadth of the future promised land, one for the oblation and twelve for the tribes, according to Eze That the Euphrates north, Mediterranean west, the Nile and Red Sea south, are to be the future boundaries of the holy land, which will include Syria and Arabia, is favored by Ge ; Ex ; De ; Jos ; 1Ki ; 2Ch ; Isa ; all which was partially realized in Solomon's reign, shall be antitypically so hereafter.

The theory, if true, will clear away many difficulties in the way of the literal interpretation of this chapter and Eze Matthew Poole's Commentary And ye, you that are members of the church, and whom God doth in wonderful power and majesty come to save, shall flee; filled with apprehensions of such strange things, and troubled at the convulsions and strugglings of nations against God and you, shall, as in a great fear, flee to some place of safety and repose; you will flee the valley itself 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 flee those valleys.

So the words were better read; our marginal readings and the Gallic version do so read it. For, or although , or notwithstanding, this valley reach unto Azal, which speaks, say some, a separate place, i.

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. As ye fled from before the earthquake: this was some dreadful earthquake, and put the people into a mighty fear, and made them flee in all haste; it is mentioned Amos ; and the prophet tells us, that when God shakes the kingdoms of his enemies, to make a plain and level way for his ransomed ones, it shall make them flee for fear too.

The Lord my God shall come: as thus rendered 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 it were said, Though it will, 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 that of St.

John, Revelation , shutting up the visions of the new heaven and the new earth, and the appendages of them, with, Come, Lord Jesus. Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains, In any case the meaning is that the way of escape shall be made easy.

The references to it here and in Amos show that it made a deep impression on the people and was long remembered.

The story of Josephus see Stanley, Jewish Church , ii. Deuteronomy ; Matthew ; Judges These abrupt changes of person are not uncommon in Hebrew. See chap. Zechariah , note. Pulpit Commentary Verse 5. The last word is probably an error for meorum. Into the chasm thus miraculously formed the remnant shall flee for refuge. If Azal, or Azel, be a proper name, it is with some probability identified with Beth-ezel, mentioned in Micah , a village on the east of Olivet.

The meaning in this case is that the valley should extend from the west unto the east side of the Mount of Olives, and that in it the people shall find an asylum, that they might not be involved in the judgments which fall on the enemy. Some take Azal to mean "union," and see in it a symbol of the union of the Law and the gospel, or the Jew and Gentile, in one Church - the valley of God's mountain extending to "union;" that is, to enfolding all the faithful see Wordsworth, in loc.

The earthquake in the days of Uzziah. This is mentioned in Amos , but not in the historical books see note on Amos, loc. The intervention of the Lord is here accompanied by an earthquake, which produces the same panic as on the former occasion, and drives the inhabitants to flight. Shall come. To smite his enemies and to defend his people. All the saints holy ones with thee. The versions have, "with him;" and thus many Hebrew manuscripts.

Nothing further is known about this man. Azel the location is an otherwise unheard of place presumably close to Jerusalem , at the foot of the far side of mount Olivet Zechariah In his troubling prophecy concerning the final battle, the prophet Zechariah foretells YHWH to fight against the nations that he gathered against Jerusalem.

While doing so, his feet will stand on Mount Olivet, which will split from top to bottom and from east to west and the halves will move away from each other, towards the north and the south. This will result in an enormous valley which will reach onto Azel, and through which God's people can flee, out of the besieged city, clear through the valley and off to wherever.

It's not clear whether Azel is actually a name. Jerome, who wrote the Vulgate translation of the Bible, didn't think so and printed a translation namely ad proximum. It's a bit strange that Zechariah refers to a place that nobody else mentions, but some scholars propose that Azel is the same as Beth-ezel mentioned by Micah Micah , which would come in handy if that place was mentioned by anyone else, which it isn't.

But whether Azel is a real place probably depends on whether YHWH is actually going to split the physical mount Olivet, because the benefits don't seem to warrant the costs an operation like that would require the release of enormous amounts of energy, which would probably not benefit any refugees and even if he will, would it be important where the physical valley ends? And what happens when we get to Azel?