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

Matthew 22:7

Luke 2:1

The city

Luke 21:20

The houses

Matthew 24:19

The residue

Luke 21:24

Shall not

Matthew 24:22

Romans 9:27

Galatians 4:26

General references

Matthew 23:38

Matthew 24:21

Bible References

Gather

This made the king angry, and he sent his troops and put those murderers to death and burned their city.

In those days an edict was issued by the Emperor Augustus that a census of the whole world should be taken.

The city

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! murdering the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children around me, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you refused!

"So when you see the dreadful desecration, of which the prophet Daniel spoke, set up in the Holy Place"??he reader must take note of this??16 "then those who are in Judea must fly to the hills;

But as soon as you see the dreadful desecration standing where he has no right to stand" (the reader must take note of this), "then those who are in Judea must fly to the hills;

For a time is coming upon you when your enemies will throw up earthworks about you and surround you and shut you in on all sides,

But when you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, then you must understand that her devastation is at hand.

The houses

But alas for women who are with child at that time or who have babies!

The residue

They will fall by the edge of the sword, and be carried off as prisoners among all nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled under foot by the heathen, until the time of the heathen comes.

Shall not

If those days had not been cut short, nobody would have escaped, but for the sake of God's people those days will be cut short.

And Isaiah cries out about Israel, "Although the sons of Israel are as numerous as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will be saved,

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

General references

Now I leave you to yourselves.

for there will be greater misery then than there has ever been from the beginning of creation until now, or ever will be again.