Zechariah 14:2 “For I will gather all the nations for battle against Jerusalem, and th…”

Zechariah 14:2

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

Geneva Bible 1599

For I will gather all nations against Ierusalem to battell, and the citie shall be taken, and the houses spoyled, and the women defiled, and halfe of the citie shall goe into captiuitie, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from ye citie.

Darby Translation

And I will assemble all the 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 rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

Young's Literal Translation

And I have gathered all the nations unto Jerusalem to battle, And captured hath been the city, And spoiled have been the houses, And the women are lain with, Gone forth hath half the city in a removal, And the remnant of the people are not cut off from the city.

Bible in Basic English

For I will get all the nations together to make war against Jerusalem; and the town will be overcome, and the goods taken from the houses, and the women taken by force: and half the town will go away as prisoners, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the town.

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Cross references

“gather”

Deuteronomy 28:9–14 Isaiah 5:26 Joel 3:2 Matthew 22:7 Jeremiah 34:1 Daniel 2:40–43

Deuteronomy 28:9–14 · BSB

The LORD will establish you as His holy people, just as He has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His ways.

Isaiah 5:26 · BSB

He lifts a banner for the distant nations and whistles for those at the ends of the earth. Behold—how speedily and swiftly they come!

Joel 3:2 · BSB

I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will enter into judgment against them concerning My people, My inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations as th…

Matthew 22:7 · BSB

The king was enraged, and he sent his troops to destroy those murderers and burn their city.

Jeremiah 34:1 · BSB

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 the other nations were fighting against Jerusalem and all its su…

Daniel 2:40–43 · BSB

Finally, there will be a fourth kingdom as strong as iron; for iron shatters and crushes all things, and like iron that crushes all things, it will shatter and crush all the others.

“the city”

Luke 21:20–24 Mark 13:14 Mark 13:19 Matthew 23:37 Matthew 23:38 Matthew 24:15

Luke 21:20–24 · BSB

But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, you will know that her desolation is near.

Mark 13:14 · BSB

So when you see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not be (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.

Mark 13:19 · BSB

For those will be days of tribulation unseen from the beginning of God’s creation until now, and never to be seen again.

Matthew 23:37 · BSB

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!

Matthew 23:38 · BSB

Look, your house is left to you desolate.

Matthew 24:15 · BSB

So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by the prophet Daniel (let the reader understand),

“the houses”

Isaiah 13:16 Amos 7:17 Lamentations 1:10 Lamentations 5:11 Lamentations 5:12 Matthew 24:19–21

Isaiah 13:16 · BSB

Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be ravished.

Amos 7:17 · BSB

Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword. Your land will be divided by a measuring line, and you yourself will die on pagan…

Lamentations 1:10 · BSB

The adversary has seized all her treasures. For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary— those You had forbidden to enter Your assembly.

Lamentations 5:11 · BSB

Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.

Lamentations 5:12 · BSB

Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.

Matthew 24:19–21 · BSB

How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!

“the residue”

Luke 21:24

Luke 21:24 · BSB

They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

“shall not”

Romans 9:27–29 Isaiah 65:6–9 Isaiah 65:18 Zechariah 13:8 Zechariah 13:9 Matthew 24:22

Romans 9:27–29 · BSB

Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved.

Isaiah 65:6–9 · BSB

Behold, it is written before Me: I will not keep silent, but I will repay; I will pay it back into their laps,

Isaiah 65:18 · BSB

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

Zechariah 13:8 · BSB

And in all the land, declares the LORD, two-thirds will be cut off and perish, but a third will be left in it.

Zechariah 13:9 · BSB

This third I will bring through the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are My people,’ and they will say, ‘The LORD is our G…

Matthew 24:22 · BSB

If those days had not been cut short, nobody would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, those days will be cut short.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1Behold, a day of the LORD is coming when your plunder will be divided in your presence.

3Then the LORD will go out to fight against those nations, as He fights in the day of battle.

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