Zechariah 14:2

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Zechariah 14:2

I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem for battle. The city will be captured, the houses looted, and the women raped. Half the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be removed from the city.

Isaiah 13:16

Their children will be smashed to death before their eyes;
their houses will be looted,
and their wives raped.

Joel 3:2

I will gather all the nations
and take them to the Valley of Jehoshaphat.
I will enter into judgment with them there
because of My people, My inheritance Israel.
The nations have scattered the Israelites
in foreign countries
and divided up My land.

Deuteronomy 28:9-14

The Lord will establish you as His holy people, as He swore to you, if you obey the commands of the Lord your God and walk in His ways.

Isaiah 5:26

He raises a signal flag for the distant nations
and whistles for them from the ends of the earth.
Look—how quickly and swiftly they come!

Isaiah 65:6-9

It is written before Me:
I will not keep silent, but I will repay;
I will repay them fully

Isaiah 65:18

Then be glad and rejoice forever
in what I am creating;
for I will create Jerusalem to be a joy
and its people to be a delight.

Jeremiah 34:1

This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord when Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, all his army, all the earthly kingdoms under his control, and all other nations were fighting against Jerusalem and all its surrounding cities:

Lamentations 1:10

י YodThe adversary has seized
all her precious belongings.
She has even seen the nations
enter her sanctuary—
those You had forbidden
to enter Your assembly.

Lamentations 5:11-12

Women are raped in Zion,
girls in the cities of Judah.

Daniel 2:40-43

A fourth kingdom will be as strong as iron; for iron crushes and shatters everything, and like iron that smashes, it will crush and smash all the others.

Amos 7:17

Therefore, this is what the Lord says:

Your wife will be a prostitute in the city,
your sons and daughters will fall by the sword,
and your land will be divided up
with a measuring line.
You yourself will die on pagan soil,
and Israel will certainly go into exile
from its homeland.

Zechariah 13:8-9

In the whole land—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
two-thirds will be cut off and die,
but a third will be left in it.

Matthew 22:7

The king was enraged, so he sent out his troops, destroyed those murderers, and burned down their city.

Matthew 23:37-38

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem! She who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her. How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, yet you were not willing!

Matthew 24:15-16

“So when you see the abomination that causes desolation, spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place” (let the reader understand),

Matthew 24:19-22

Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days!

Mark 13:14

“When you see the abomination that causes desolation standing where it should not” (let the reader understand), “then those in Judea must flee to the mountains!

Mark 13:19

For those will be days of tribulation, the kind that hasn’t been from the beginning of the world, which God created, until now and never will be again!

Luke 2:1

In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole empire should be registered.

Luke 19:43-44

For the days will come on you when your enemies will build an embankment against you, surround you, and hem you in on every side.

Luke 21:20-24

“When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then recognize that its desolation has come near.

Romans 9:27-29

But Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:

Though the number of Israel’s sons
is like the sand of the sea,
only the remnant will be saved;

Galatians 4:26-27

But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.

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Summary

Zechariah 14:2

For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

Gather

Luke 2:1

The city

Luke 21:20

The houses

Matthew 24:19

The residue

Luke 21:24

Shall not

Galatians 4:26

General references

Bible References

Gather

The Lord will establish you as His holy people, as He swore to you, if you obey the commands of the Lord your God and walk in His ways.

He raises a signal flag for the distant nations
and whistles for them from the ends of the earth.
Look—how quickly and swiftly they come!

A fourth kingdom will be as strong as iron; for iron crushes and shatters everything, and like iron that smashes, it will crush and smash all the others.

I will gather all the nations
and take them to the Valley of Jehoshaphat.

I will enter into judgment with them there
because of My people, My inheritance Israel.
The nations have scattered the Israelites
in foreign countries
and divided up My land.

The king was enraged, so he sent out his troops, destroyed those murderers, and burned down their city.

In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus

that the whole empire should be registered.

The city

“So when you see the abomination that causes desolation,

spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place”

(let the reader understand),

“When you see the abomination that causes desolation

standing where it should not” (let the reader understand), “then those in Judea must flee to the mountains!

For the days will come on you when your enemies will build an embankment against you, surround you, and hem you in on every side.

“When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then recognize that its desolation has come near.

The houses

Their children will be smashed to death before their eyes;
their houses will be looted,
and their wives raped.

י YodThe adversary has seized
all her precious belongings.
She has even seen the nations
enter her sanctuary—
those You had forbidden
to enter Your assembly.

Women are raped in Zion,
girls in the cities of Judah.

Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days!

The residue

They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled by the Gentiles

until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

Shall not

In the whole land—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
two-thirds will be cut off and die,
but a third will be left in it.

It is written before Me:
I will not keep silent, but I will repay;
I will repay them fully

Unless those days were limited, no one would survive. But those days will be limited because of the elect.

But Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:

Though the number of Israel’s sons
is like the sand of the sea,

only the remnant will be saved;

But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.

General references

They will besiege you within all your gates until your high and fortified walls, that you trust in, come down throughout your land. They will besiege you within all your gates throughout the land the Lord your God has given you.

Nevertheless, all who devoured you will be devoured,
and all your adversaries—all of them—
will go off into exile.
Those who plunder you will be plundered,
and all who raid you will be raided.

Women are raped in Zion,
girls in the cities of Judah.

“Be prepared and get yourself ready, you and all your company who have been mobilized around you; you will be their guard.

See, your house is left to you desolate.

For at that time there will be great tribulation, the kind that hasn’t taken place from the beginning of the world until now and never will again!