Zaccaria 14:2

La Riveduta Bibbia

Io adunerò tutte le nazioni per far guerra a Gerusalemme, e la città sarà presa, le case saranno saccheggiate, e le donne violate; la metà della città andrà in cattività, ma il resto del popolo non sarà sterminato dalla città.

Parallel Translations

La Nuova Diodati
Io raduner tutte le nazioni per combattere contro Gerusalemme; la citt sar presa, le case saranno saccheggiate le donne violentate. Una met della citt andr in cattivit, ma il resto del popolo non sar sterminato dalla citt.

Giovanni Diodati Bibbia
Ed io aduner� tutte le nazioni contro a Gerusalemme in battaglia, e la citt� sar� presa, e le case saranno predate, e le donne sforzate; e la met� della citt� andr� in cattivit�; ma il rimanente del popolo non sar� sterminato dalla citt�.

Bible Verse Review
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gather: Deuteronomy 28:9-14, Isaiah 5:26, Jeremiah 34:1, Daniel 2:40-43, Joel 3:2, Matthew 22:7, Luke 2:1

the city: Matthew 23:37, Matthew 23:38, Matthew 24:15, Matthew 24:16, Mark 13:14, Mark 13:19, Luke 19:43, Luke 19:44, Luke 21:20-24

the houses: Isaiah 13:16, Lamentations 1:10, Lamentations 5:11, Lamentations 5:12, Amos 7:17, Matthew 24:19-21

the residue: Luke 21:24

shall not: Zechariah 13:8, Zechariah 13:9, Isaiah 65:6-9, Isaiah 65:18, Matthew 24:22, Romans 9:27-29, Galatians 4:26, Galatians 4:27

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:52 - General 2 Samuel 10:15 - gathered 1 Kings 2:4 - fail Isaiah 14:2 - whose captives they were Isaiah 54:15 - shall fall Jeremiah 21:4 - and I Jeremiah 30:7 - for Jeremiah 30:16 - General Jeremiah 51:11 - the vengeance Jeremiah 51:27 - ye up Jeremiah 52:15 - carried Ezekiel 5:8 - even I Ezekiel 26:3 - many Ezekiel 38:7 - General Ezekiel 38:15 - and many Hosea 10:10 - and the Joel 3:11 - Assemble Amos 6:11 - he will Zephaniah 3:8 - to gather Zephaniah 3:19 - I will undo Zechariah 11:1 - that Zechariah 12:3 - in that Zechariah 14:21 - in the Malachi 4:6 - lest Matthew 21:41 - He will Matthew 24:7 - nation shall Matthew 24:21 - General Luke 13:35 - your Luke 17:37 - wheresoever Luke 21:6 - there Luke 21:10 - Nation shall Luke 21:22 - all John 11:48 - and the Acts 6:14 - that Revelation 11:7 - the beast Revelation 11:18 - the nations Revelation 16:16 - he

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle,.... Meaning not the Romans, in the time of Vespasian, for they were not all nations; nor did a part of the city only go into captivity then, but the whole; nor did any remain in it: it seems right to refer it to the gathering of the kings of the earth to the battle of the Lord God Almighty at Armageddon, Revelation 16:14 unless it may be thought better to interpret it of the vast numbers, out of several nations, the Turk will bring against Jerusalem, to dispossess the Jews of it, by whom it will be again inhabited in the latter day; see Ezekiel 38:4 and Kimchi interprets it of the Gog and Magog army. The Jews, in their ancient Midrashes d, apply it to the times of the Messiah; which is true, if understood not of the first times of the Messiah, whose coming they vainly expect, but of the last times of the Messiah.

And the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished, and half of the city shall go into captivity: this will be the time when the outward court shall be given, to the Gentiles, the Papists; the two witnesses shall be slain, and their enemies shall rejoice and send gifts to one another, Revelation 11:2 this will be a trying season, and such a time of trouble as has not been known:

and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city; there will be a remnant according to the election of grace; the city, the church, shall not be wholly extinct; Christ will reserve a seed for himself in those very worst of times, as he has always done: this cannot refer to the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, for then all the inhabitants of the city were cut off, or carried captive, and none left; but, if literally to be understood, must refer to what will be, when the army of Gog shall come against it in the latter day; though these circumstances are not mentioned in Ezekiel.

d Shirhashirim Rabba, fol. 22. 3. & Midrash Ruth, fol. 33. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I Will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle - This is a feature which belongs to the end. It had been dwelt upon by Joel; Joel 3:2-9, Joel 3:11; Ezekiel spoke of the “many nations” Ezekiel 38:6, Ezekiel 38:15, Ezekiel 38:22 which should come under Gog. John foretells of an universal strife at the end, when “The spirits of devils, working miracles, go forth unto the king; of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty” Revelation 16:14; and “Satan shall be loosed out of his prison and shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints round about, and the beloved city” Revelation 20:7-9. Since no creature can do aught but what God wills, and, in his phrensy against God’s people, is but His instrument, “to try them and to purge and to make white to the time of the end” Daniel 11:35; Daniel 12:10; and the strength of body or intellect, which is abused against His law, He continuously in the order of nature supplies, God may be said to do what Satan does against Him. Satan, in his blind fury, crowns martyrs, fills the thrones of heaven, works, against his will, the All-wise Will of God.

And the houses rifled, and the women ... - The horrors of pagan war repeat themselves through people’s ever-recurring passions. What was foretold as to Babylon is repeated in the same words as to the Church of God. Seemingly “all things” come “alike to all Ecclesiastes 9:2 : there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean and to the unclean: to him that sacrificeth and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner.” The outward event is the same, the hidden part is known to God alone. “And the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city,” unlike the lot of the earthly Jerusalem, in the destruction both by Nebuchadnezzar (which was past) and the Romans (see at Micah 3:12, pp. 46-50). At the first, “Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, carried away the rest of the people left in the city, and the fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude” 2 Kings 25:11, so that Jeremiah mourned over it, “Because of the mountain of Zion which is desolate, foxes walk” (habitually) “upon it” Lamentations 5:18. The Romans (see at pp. 46, 47) “effaced the city.” Now “a remnant is not cut off,” because “for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened” Matthew 24:32; for our Lord had said, that “the gates of hell should not prevail against” His Church Matthew 16:18.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Zechariah 14:2. I will gather all nations — The Romans, whose armies were composed of all the nations of the world. In this verse there is a pitiful account given of the horrible outrages which should be committed during the siege of Jerusalem, and at its capture.

The residue of the people shall not be cut off — Many were preserved for slaves, and for exhibition in the provincial theatres.