2 For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle , and the city will be captured , the houses plundered , the women ravished and half of the city exiled e , but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city . 3 Then the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations , as when He fights on a day of battle . 4 In that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives , which is in front of Jerusalem on the east ; and the Mount of Olives will be split in its middle from east to west by a very large valley , so that half of the mountain will move toward the north and the other half toward the south . 5 You will flee by the valley of My mountains , for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azel ; yes, you will flee just as you fled before e the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah . Then the Lord , my God , will come , and all the holy ones with Him! 6 In that day there will be no light ; the luminaries will dwindle . 7 For it will be a unique day which is known to the Lord , neither day nor night , but it will come about that at evening time there will be light .
8 And in that day living waters will flow out of Jerusalem , half of them toward the eastern sea and the other half toward the western sea ; it will be in summer as well as in winter . 9 And the Lord will be king over all the earth ; in that day the Lord will be the only one , and His name the only one .
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Zechariah 14:2-9
Commentary on Zechariah 14:1-7
(Read Zechariah 14:1-7)
The Lord Jesus often stood upon the Mount of Olives when on earth. He ascended from thence to heaven, and then desolations and distresses came upon the Jewish nation. Such is the view taken of this figuratively; but many consider it as a notice of events yet unfulfilled, and that it relates to troubles of which we cannot now form a full idea. Every believer, being related to God as his God, may triumph in the expectation of Christ's coming in power, and speak of it with pleasure. During a long season, the state of the church would be deformed by sin; there would be a mixture of truth and error, of happiness and misery. Such is the experience of God's people, a mingled state of grace and corruption. But, when the season is at the worst, and most unpromising, the Lord will turn darkness into light; deliverance comes when God's people have done looking for it.
Commentary on Zechariah 14:8-15
(Read Zechariah 14:8-15)
Some consider that the progress of the gospel, beginning from Jerusalem, is referred to by the living waters flowing from that city. Neither shall the gospel and means of grace, nor the graces of the Spirit wrought in the hearts of believers by those means, ever fail, by reason either of the heat of persecution, or storms of temptation, or the blasts of any other affliction. Tremendous judgments appear to be foretold, to be sent upon those who should oppose the settlement of the Jews in their own land. How far they are to be understood literally, events alone can determine. The furious rage and malice which stir up men against each other, are faint shadows of the enmity which reigns among those who have perished in their sins. Even the inferior creatures often suffer for the sin of man, and in his plagues. Thus God will show his displeasure against sin.