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Zechariah 14

Zech. 14:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For I will gather
'acaph (Hebrew #622)
to gather for any purpose; hence, to receive, take away, i.e. remove (destroy, leave behind, put up, restore, etc.)
KJV usage: assemble, bring, consume, destroy, felch, gather (in, together, up again), X generally, get (him), lose, put all together, receive, recover (another from leprosy), (be) rereward, X surely, take (away, into, up), X utterly, withdraw.
Pronounce: aw-saf'
Origin: a primitive root
all nations
gowy (Hebrew #1471)
apparently from the same root as 1465 (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
KJV usage: Gentile, heathen, nation, people.
Pronounce: go'-ee
Origin: rarely (shortened) goy {go'-ee}
against Jerusalem
Yruwshalaim (Hebrew #3389)
a dual (in allusion to its two main hills (the true pointing, at least of the former reading, seems to be that of 3390)); probably from (the passive participle of) 3384 and 7999; founded peaceful; Jerushalaim or Jerushalem, the capital city of Palestine
KJV usage: Jerusalem.
Pronounce: yer-oo-shaw-lah'-im
Origin: rarely Yruwshalayim {yer-oo- shaw-lah'-yim}
to battle
milchamah (Hebrew #4421)
a battle (i.e. the engagement); generally, war (i.e. warfare)
KJV usage: battle, fight(-ing), war((-rior)).
Pronounce: mil-khaw-maw'
Origin: from 3898 (in the sense of fighting)
; and the city
`iyr (Hebrew #5892)
or ayar (Judges 10:4) {aw-yar'}; from 5782 a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
KJV usage: Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.
Pronounce: eer
Origin: or (in the plural) par {awr}
h shall be taken
lakad (Hebrew #3920)
to catch (in a net, trap or pit); generally, to capture or occupy; also to choose (by lot); figuratively, to cohere
KJV usage: X at all, catch (self), be frozen, be holden, stick together, take.
Pronounce: law-kad'
Origin: a primitive root
, and the houses
bayith (Hebrew #1004)
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
KJV usage: court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, X great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter)house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out).
Pronounce: bah'-yith
Origin: probably from 1129 abbreviated
rifled
shacac (Hebrew #8155)
to plunder
KJV usage: rifle, spoil.
Pronounce: shaw-sas'
Origin: a primitive root
, and the women
'ishshah (Hebrew #802)
irregular plural, nashiym {naw-sheem'}; a woman (used in the same wide sense as 582)
KJV usage: (adulter)ess, each, every, female, X many, + none, one, + together, wife, woman. Often unexpressed in English.
Pronounce: ish-shaw'
Origin: feminine of 376 or 582
ravished
shagal (Hebrew #7693)
to copulate with
KJV usage: lie with, ravish.
Pronounce: shaw-gal'
Origin: a primitive root
shakab (Hebrew #7901)
to lie down (for rest, sexual connection, decease or any other purpose)
KJV usage: X at all, cast down, ((lover-))lay (self) (down), (make to) lie (down, down to sleep, still with), lodge, ravish, take rest, sleep, stay.
Pronounce: shaw-kab'
Origin: a primitive root
; and half
chetsiy (Hebrew #2677)
the half or middle
KJV usage: half, middle, mid(-night), midst, part, two parts.
Pronounce: khay-tsee'
Origin: from 2673
of the city
`iyr (Hebrew #5892)
or ayar (Judges 10:4) {aw-yar'}; from 5782 a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
KJV usage: Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.
Pronounce: eer
Origin: or (in the plural) par {awr}
shall go forth
yatsa' (Hebrew #3318)
to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.
KJV usage: X after, appear, X assuredly, bear out, X begotten, break out, bring forth (out, up), carry out, come (abroad, out, thereat, without), + be condemned, depart(-ing, -ure), draw forth, in the end, escape, exact, fail, fall (out), fetch forth (out), get away (forth, hence, out), (able to, cause to, let) go abroad (forth, on, out), going out, grow, have forth (out), issue out, lay (lie) out, lead out, pluck out, proceed, pull out, put away, be risen, X scarce, send with commandment, shoot forth, spread, spring out, stand out, X still, X surely, take forth (out), at any time, X to (and fro), utter.
Pronounce: yaw-tsaw'
Origin: a primitive root
into captivity
gowlah (Hebrew #1473)
active participle feminine of 1540; exile; concretely and collectively exiles
KJV usage: (carried away), captive(-ity), removing.
Pronounce: go-law'
Origin: or (shortened) golah {go-law'}
, and the residue
yether (Hebrew #3499)
properly, an overhanging, i.e. (by implication) an excess, superiority, remainder; also a small rope (as hanging free)
KJV usage: + abundant, cord, exceeding, excellancy(-ent), what they leave, that hath left, plentifully, remnant, residue, rest, string, with.
Pronounce: yeh'-ther
Origin: from 3498
of the people
`am (Hebrew #5971)
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
KJV usage: folk, men, nation, people.
Pronounce: am
Origin: from 6004
shall not be cut off
karath (Hebrew #3772)
to cut (off, down or asunder); by implication, to destroy or consume; specifically, to covenant (i.e. make an alliance or bargain, originally by cutting flesh and passing between the pieces)
KJV usage: be chewed, be con-(feder-)ate, covenant, cut (down, off), destroy, fail, feller, be freed, hew (down), make a league ((covenant)), X lose, perish, X utterly, X want.
Pronounce: kaw-rath'
Origin: a primitive root
from the city
`iyr (Hebrew #5892)
or ayar (Judges 10:4) {aw-yar'}; from 5782 a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
KJV usage: Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.
Pronounce: eer
Origin: or (in the plural) par {awr}
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Matt. 23:37‑38• 37{i}Jerusalem, Jerusalem, [the city] that kills the prophets and stones those that are sent unto her, how often would I have gathered thy children as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!{/i}
 38Behold, your house is left unto you desolate; (Matt. 23:37‑38)

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Ministry on This Verse

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gather.
Deut. 28:9‑14• 9{i}Jehovah will establish thee unto himself a holy people as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou keep the commandments of Jehovah thy God, and walk in his ways.{/i}
 10{i}And all peoples of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of Jehovah, and they shall be afraid of thee.{/i}
 11{i}And Jehovah will give thee abundance of good, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land that Jehovah swore unto thy fathers to give thee.{/i}
 12{i}Jehovah will open to thee his good treasure, the heavens, to give rain unto thy land in its season, and to bless all the work of thy hand; and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow.{/i}
 13{i}And Jehovah will make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if thou hearken unto the commandments of Jehovah thy God, which I command thee this day, to keep and to do them,{/i}
 14{i}and if thou turn not aside from any of the words that I command thee this day, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.{/i} (Deut. 28:9‑14)
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Isa. 5:26• 26And he will lift up an ensign to the nations afar off, and will hiss for them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly: (Isa. 5:26)
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Jer. 34:1• 1{i}The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah{/i}, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth of his dominion, and all the people, fought; against Jerusalem, and against all the cities thereof, {i}saying,{/i} (Jer. 34:1)
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Dan. 2:40‑43• 40And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron; forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things; and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.
 41And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potter's clay and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided. There shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.
 42And as the toes of the feet were part of iron and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly broken.
 43And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: But they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay. (Dan. 2:40‑43)
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Joel 3:2• 2I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land. (Joel 3:2)
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Matt. 22:7• 7And the king was wroth and, sending his troops, destroyed those murderers and burned their city. (Matt. 22:7)
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Luke 2:1• 1And it came to pass in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, that a census should be made of all the habitable world. (Luke 2:1)
the city.
Matt. 23:37‑38• 37{i}Jerusalem, Jerusalem, [the city] that kills the prophets and stones those that are sent unto her, how often would I have gathered thy children as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!{/i}
 38Behold, your house is left unto you desolate; (Matt. 23:37‑38)
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Matt. 24:15‑16• 15When therefore ye shall see the abomination of desolation that was spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in [the] holy place (let the reader understand),
 16then let those in Judea flee unto the mountains; (Matt. 24:15‑16)
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Mark 13:14,19• 14But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, standing where it ought not (he that reads, let him consider), then let those in Judea flee to the mountains,
 19For in those days shall be distress, such as there has not been the like since the beginning of creation which God created unto now, and never shall be. (Mark 13:14,19)
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Luke 19:43‑44• 43For days shall come upon thee that thine enemies shall make a rampart about thee and compass thee round and keep thee in on every side,
 44and level thee with the ground and thy children in thee; and not leave in thee stone upon stone; because thou knewest not the season of thy visitation. (Luke 19:43‑44)
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Luke 21:20‑24• 20But when ye see Jerusalem encompassed with armies, then know that its desolation is drawn nigh.
 21Then let those who are in Judea flee unto the mountains, and those in the midst of it depart out, and those in the fields not enter into it.
 22For these are days of vengeance, that all the things written may be accomplished.
 23Woe to them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days; for there shall be great distress upon the land and wrath upon this people.
 24And they shall fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations; and Jerusalem shall be trodden down by [the] nations until [the] times of [the] nations be fulfilled. (Luke 21:20‑24)
the houses.
Isa. 13:16• 16Their infants also shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their women ravished. (Isa. 13:16)
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Lam. 1:10• 10The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things:{HR}For she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary,{HR}Whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation. (Lam. 1:10)
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Lam. 5:11‑12• 11Women have they ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.
 12Princes were hung up by their hand; the faces of elders they honoured not. (Lam. 5:11‑12)
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Amos 7:17• 17Therefore thus saith Jehovah: thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land. (Amos 7:17)
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Matt. 24:19‑21• 19But woe to those with child and to them that suckle in those days!
 20But pray that your flight be not in winter nor on Sabbath.
 21For then shall be great tribulation, such as hath not been from world's beginning until now, no, nor ever shall be. (Matt. 24:19‑21)
the residue.
Luke 21:24• 24And they shall fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations; and Jerusalem shall be trodden down by [the] nations until [the] times of [the] nations be fulfilled. (Luke 21:24)
shall not.
Zech. 13:8‑9• 8{i}And it shall come to pass in all the land, saith Jehovah, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.{/i}
 9And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. {i}They shall call on my name, and I will answer them: I will say, It is my people; and they shall say, Jehovah is my God.{/i} (Zech. 13:8‑9)
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Isa. 65:6‑9,18• 6Behold, [it is] written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,
 7your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith Jehovah, who have burned incense upon the mountains, and outraged me upon the hills: I will measure their former work into their bosom.
 8Thus saith Jehovah, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and it is said, Destroy it not; for a blessing [is] in it: so will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may not destroy [them] all.
 9And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah a possessor of my mountains; and my chosen shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
 18But be glad and rejoice forever [in that] which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. (Isa. 65:6‑9,18)
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Matt. 24:22• 22And except those days had been cut short, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect's sake those days shall be cut short. (Matt. 24:22)
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Rom. 9:27‑29• 27But Esaias crieth concerning Israel, “Were the number of the sons of Israel as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved,
 28for he is completing and cutting short the matter in righteousness, because a matter cut short will [the] Lord make on the earth.”
 29And according as Esaias said before, “Unless [the] Lord of Hosts had left us a seed, we had become as Sodom and been made like as Gomorrha.” (Rom. 9:27‑29)
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Gal. 4:26‑27• 26But the Jerusalem above is free, which is our mother,
 27for it is written, “Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break out and cry, thou that travailest not; for the children of the desolate are many more than of her that hath the husband.” (Gal. 4:26‑27)
• Here we have the revelation that at first, before Jehovah appears, the enemy will triumph and capture the city. Jehovah permits this for the punishment of the apostates of Judah under the influence of the antichrist. (Isa. 28:14-18; see also Isa. 8-10). (“Zechariah 14” by E. Dennett)
• (Matt. 23:37). And since that day Jerusalem has added to all her sins in crucifying her Lord; and she will aggravate her guilt yet more by receiving him who will deny both the Father and the Son. (“Zechariah 14” by E. Dennett)

J. N. Darby Translation

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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.

W. Kelly Translation

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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.