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.

The residue

Bible References

Gather

Deuteronomy 28:9
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!
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:
Daniel 2:40
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.
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.
Matthew 22:7
The king was enraged, so he sent out his troops, destroyed those murderers, and burned down their city.
Luke 2:1
In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole empire should be registered.

The city

Matthew 23:37
“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
“So when you see the abomination that causes desolation, spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place” (let the reader understand),
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!
Luke 19:43
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
“When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then recognize that its desolation has come near.

The houses

Isaiah 13:16
Their children will be smashed to death before their eyes;
their houses will be looted,
and their wives raped.
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
Women are raped in Zion,
girls in the cities of Judah.
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.
Matthew 24:19
Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days!

The residue

Luke 21:24
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

Zechariah 13:8
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.
Isaiah 65:6
It is written before Me:
I will not keep silent, but I will repay;
I will repay them fully
Matthew 24:22
Unless those days were limited, no one would survive. But those days will be limited because of the elect.
Romans 9:27
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
But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.

General references

Deuteronomy 28:52
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.
Jeremiah 30:16
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.
Lamentations 5:11
Women are raped in Zion,
girls in the cities of Judah.
Ezekiel 38:7
“Be prepared and get yourself ready, you and all your company who have been mobilized around you; you will be their guard.
Matthew 23:38
See, your house is left to you desolate.
Matthew 24:21
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!

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