Zechariah 14:2
For I will gather every nation against Jerusalem for battle and the city will be captured. The houses will be plundered and the women raped. Half of the city will go out into captivity, but the remainder of the people will not be cut off from the city.
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In Context
1Behold! A day for Yahweh is coming when your plunder will be divided in your midst.
3But Yahweh will go out and wage war against those nations as when he wages war on the day of battle.
Cross References
Isaiah 4:3It will happen that the one who is left in Zion 1 and the one who remains in Jerusalem will be called holy, 1 everyone who is written down as living in Jerusalem. 1
Isaiah 13:16Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. 1 Their houses will be plundered and their wives raped. 1
Isaiah 65:18But you will be glad and rejoice forever in what I am about to create. See, I am about to create Jerusalem as a joy, and her people as a delight. 1
Lamentations 1:10The adversary has put his hand on all our precious treasures. 1 She has seen the nations enter her sanctuary, 1 even though you had commanded that they must not enter into your assembly place. 1
Daniel 2:40There will be a fourth kingdom, strong as iron, because iron breaks other things into pieces and shatters everything. It will shatter all these things and crush them.
Amos 7:17Therefore this is what Yahweh says, 1 'Your wife will be a prostitute in the city; 1 your sons and your daughters will fall by the sword; 1 your land will be measured and divided up; 1 you will die in an unclean land, 1 and Israel will surely go into exile from his land.'”
Matthew Henry on Zechariah 14:2-8
Persecution of the Church; Judgments and Mercies; Encouraging Prospects. ( b. c. 500.) 1 Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. 2 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. 3 Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in… Read the whole commentary →