Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
The object of the cleaving of the mount in two by a fissure or valley (a prolongation of the valley of Jehoshaphat, and extending from Jerusalem on the west towards Jordan, eastward) is to open a way of escape to the besieged (compare Joel 3:12, Joel 3:14). Half the divided mount is thereby forced northward, half southward; the valley running between. The place of His departure at His ascension shall be the place of His return: and the "manner" of His return also shall be similar (Acts 1:11). He shall probably "come from the east" (Matthew 24:27). He so made His triumphal entry into the city from the Mount of Olives from the east (Matthew 21:1-10). This was the scene of His agony: so it shall be the scene of His glory. Compare Ezekiel 11:23, with Ezekiel 43:2, "from the way of the east.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Isaiah 29:6
Isaiah 66:24
Ezekiel 6:9
Ezekiel 11:23
Ezekiel 43:2
Joel 2:32
Joel 3:2
Joel 3:2
Joel 3:12
Zechariah 12:3
Zechariah 13:8-9
Zechariah 14:3
Zechariah 14:5
2 Thessalonians 2:7
Revelation 1:7
Revelation 7:3
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