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

And when the king heard of it, he was highly provoked, and sent his troops, and destroyed those murderers, and burnt their city.

Now in those days an edict was published by Augustus Cesar, that all the world should be enrolled or taxed,

The city

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

When therefore ye shall see the desolating abomination, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing at the holy place, (let him, that readeth, attend) then let those in Judea flee to the mountains:

Now when ye shall see the desolating abomination, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, set up where it ought not to be, (let him that readeth, attend) then let those in Judea flee to the mountains:

For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast up a trench about thee, and surround thee, and keep thee in on every side,

And when ye shall see Jerusalem surrounded with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh: then let them that are in Judea flee to the mountains,

The houses

But wo to them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days.

The residue

and they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and be led captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trampled down by the Gentiles, till the times of the Gentiles too shall be fulfilled.

Shall not

And unless those days be shortened, no one would be saved; but for the sake of the elect those days shall be shortened.

And Esaias crieth out concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant shall be saved.

But the Jerusalem above is represented by the free-woman, which is the mother of us all.

General references

Behold your house shall be left you desolate:

for there shall be then great affliction, such as has not been from the beginning of the world unto this time, no, nor ever shall be.