Zechariah 14:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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 keep you as a people holy to himself, as he has said to you in his oath, if you keep the orders of the Lord your God and go on walking in his ways.

And he will let a flag be lifted up as a sign to a far-off nation, whistling to them from the ends of the earth: and they will come quickly and suddenly.

The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, when Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth which were under his rule, and all the peoples, were fighting against Jerusalem and all its towns, saying,

And the fourth kingdom will be strong as iron: because, as all things are broken and overcome by iron, so it will have the power of crushing and smashing down all the earth.

I will get together all the nations, and make them come down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and there I will take up with them the cause of my people and of my heritage Israel, whom they have sent wandering among the nations, and of my land which has been parted by them.

But the king was angry; and he sent his armies, and those who had put his servants to death he gave to destruction, burning down their town with fire.

Now it came about in those days that an order went out from Caesar Augustus that there was to be a numbering of all the world.

The city

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her! Again and again would I have taken your children to myself as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, and you would not!

When, then, you see in the holy place the unclean thing which makes destruction, of which word was given by Daniel the prophet (let this be clear to the reader),

But when you see the unclean thing which makes destruction, in the place where it has no right to be (let this be clear to the reader), then let those who are in Judaea go quickly to the mountains:

For the time will come when your attackers will put a wall round you, and come all round you and keep you in on every side,

But when you see armies all round about Jerusalem, then be certain that her destruction is near.

The houses

Their young children will be broken up before their eyes; their goods will be taken away, and their wives made the property of others.

The hand of her hater is stretched out over all her desired things; for she has seen that the nations have come into her holy place, about whom you gave orders that they were not to come into the meeting of your people.

They took by force the women in Zion, the virgins in the towns of Judah.

So this is what the Lord has said: Your wife will be a loose woman in the town, and your sons and your daughters will be put to the sword, and your land will be cut up into parts by a line; and you yourself will come to your end in an unclean land, and Israel will certainly be taken away a prisoner out of his land.

But it will be hard for women who are with child and for those with babies at the breast in those days.

The residue

And they will be put to death with the sword, and will be taken as prisoners into all the nations; and Jerusalem will be crushed under the feet of the Gentiles, till the times of the Gentiles are complete.

Shall not

And it will come about that in all the land, says the Lord, two parts of it will be cut off and come to an end; but the third will be still living there.

See, it is recorded before me, says the Lord: I will not keep back my hand, till I have sent punishment,

And if those days had not been made short there would have been no salvation for any, but because of the saints those days will be made short.

And Isaiah says about Israel, Even if the number of the children of Israel is as the sand of the sea, only a small part will get salvation:

But the Jerusalem on high is free, which is our mother.

General references

Your towns will be shut in by his armies, till your high walls, in which you put your faith, have come down: his armies will be round your towns, through all your land which the Lord your God has given you.

For this cause, all those who take you for their food will themselves become your food; and all your attackers, every one of them, will be taken prisoners; and those who send destruction on you will come to destruction; and all those who take away your goods by force will undergo the same themselves.

They took by force the women in Zion, the virgins in the towns of Judah.

Be ready, make yourself ready, you and all the forces who are with you, and be ready for my orders.

See, your house is made waste

Because in those days there will be great sorrow, such as there has not been from the start of the world till now, or ever will be.