Zechariah 14:2

God's Word

I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem for battle. The city will be captured, the houses looted, and the women raped. Half of the people in the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people won’t be taken from the city.

Cross References

Isaiah 13:16

Their little children will be smashed to death right before their eyes. Their houses will be looted and their wives raped.

Isaiah 4:3

Then whoever is left in Zion and whoever remains in Jerusalem will be called holy, everyone who is recorded among the living in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 5:26

The Lord raises up a flag for the nations far away. With a whistle he signals those at the ends of the earth. Look, they are coming very quickly!

Isaiah 65:18

Be glad, and rejoice forever in what I’m going to create, because I’m going to create Jerusalem to be a delight and its people to be a joy.

Jeremiah 21:4

‘This is what the Lord God of Israel says: I’m going to take your weapons away from you. You are using these weapons to fight the king of Babylon as well as the Babylonians who are now blockading you outside the wall. I will bring the Babylonians inside this city.

Jeremiah 34:1

The Lord spoke his word to Jeremiah when King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, his entire army, and all the kingdoms and people that he ruled were attacking Jerusalem and all its cities. He said,

Lamentations 1:10

The enemies laid their hands on all of the city’s treasures. Jerusalem has seen the nations enter the holy place. ‘O Lord, they are the same people you have forbidden to enter your congregation.’

Ezekiel 5:8

“So this is what the Almighty Lord says: I, too, am against you, and I will punish you in front of the nations.

Joel 3:2

I will gather all the nations. I will bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat. I will judge them there. They scattered the Israelites, the people who belong to me, among the nations. They divided my land.

Joel 3:9

Announce this among the nations: Prepare yourselves for war. Wake up the warriors. Have all the warriors come near and attack.

Amos 7:17

“However, this is what the Lord says: Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and daughters will be killed with swords. Your land will be surveyed and divided up, and you will die in an unclean  land. Israel cannot avoid being taken from its land into exile.”

Zechariah 12:2

“I’m going to make Jerusalem like a cup ⌞of wine⌟ that makes all the surrounding people stagger. They will attack Judah along with Jerusalem.

Zechariah 12:3

On that day I will make Jerusalem a stone too heavy for all the nations to lift. All who try to lift it will be severely injured. All the nations in the world will gather ⌞to fight⌟ against Jerusalem.”

Zechariah 12:9

“On that day I will seek to destroy all the nations who attack Jerusalem.

Matthew 22:7

“The king became angry. He sent his soldiers, killed those murderers, and burned their city.

Mark 13:14

“When you see the disgusting thing that will cause destruction standing where it should not (let the reader take note), those of you in Judea should flee to the mountains.

Mark 13:19

It will be a time of misery that has not happened from the beginning of God’s creation until now, and will certainly never happen again.

Luke 2:1

At that time the Emperor Augustus ordered a census of the Roman Empire.