Zechariah 14:2

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְאָסַפְתִּ֨י אֶת־כָּל־הַגּוֹיִ֥ם ׀ אֶֽל־יְרוּשָׁלִַם֮ לַמִּלְחָמָה֒ וְנִלְכְּדָ֣ה הָעִ֗יר וְנָשַׁ֙סּוּ֙ הַבָּ֣תִּ֔ים וְהַנָּשִׁ֖ים *תשגלנה **תִּשָּׁכַ֑בְנָה וְיָצָ֞א חֲצִ֤י הָעִיר֙ בַּגּוֹלָ֔ה וְיֶ֣תֶר הָעָ֔ם לֹ֥א יִכָּרֵ֖ת מִן־הָעִֽיר׃

Transliteration

And wəʾāsapətî ʾet-kol-haggôyim to Yərûšālaim for hammilḥāmâ, and wənilkədâ hāʿîr and wənāšassû habbātîm and hannāšîm tiššākabənâ, and wəyāṣāʾ ḥăṣî hāʿîr baggôlâ and yeter hāʿām lōʾ yikkārēt min-hāʿîr.

Grammar Details

• *wəʾāsapətî*: waw-consecutive + qal perfect 1st person singular - and I will gather
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *kol-haggôyim*: all-the-nations, masculine plural noun with definite article
• *Yərûšālaim*: proper noun - Jerusalem
• *hammilḥāmâ*: feminine singular noun with definite article - the battle/war
• *wənilkədâ*: waw-consecutive + niphal perfect 3rd feminine singular - and will be captured
• *hāʿîr*: feminine singular noun with definite article - the city
• *wənāšassû*: waw-consecutive + niphal perfect 3rd plural - and will be plundered
• *habbātîm*: masculine plural noun with definite article - the houses
• *hannāšîm*: feminine plural noun with definite article - the women
• *tiššākabənâ*: niphal imperfect 3rd feminine plural (qere reading) - will be violated/ravished
• *wəyāṣāʾ*: waw-consecutive + qal perfect 3rd masculine singular - and will go out
• *ḥăṣî*: construct state - half of
• *baggôlâ*: preposition + feminine singular noun with definite article - into the exile
• *yeter*: construct state - remainder of
• *hāʿām*: masculine singular noun with definite article - the people
• *lōʾ*: negative particle - not
• *yikkārēt*: niphal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - will be cut off
• *min-hāʿîr*: preposition + feminine singular noun with definite article - from the city

Word Meanings

• *wəʾāsapətî*: I will gather/collect/assemble
• *haggôyim*: the nations/gentiles/peoples
• *hammilḥāmâ*: the battle/war/fighting
• *wənilkədâ*: will be captured/seized/taken
• *wənāšassû*: will be plundered/looted/pillaged
• *tiššākabənâ*: will be violated/ravished/raped [ketiv *tišāgalnâ*]
• *baggôlâ*: into exile/captivity
• *yikkārēt*: will be cut off/removed/destroyed

Referenced Verses

• Isa 13:16 : 16 Their infants also shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be rifled, and their wives ravished.
• Joel 3:2 : 2 I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will execute judgment upon them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations: and they have parted my land,
• Amos 7:17 : 17 therefore thus saith Jehovah: Thy wife shall be a 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 thyself shalt die in a land that is unclean, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.
• Zech 13:8-9 : 8 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith Jehovah, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. 9 And I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people; and they shall say, Jehovah is my God.
• Matt 22:7 : 7 But the king was wroth; and he sent his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.
• Matt 23:37-38 : 37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killeth the prophets, and stoneth them that are sent unto her! how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! 38 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
• Matt 24:15-16 : 15 When therefore ye see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let him that readeth understand), 16 then let them that are in Judaea flee unto the mountains:
• Matt 24:19-22 : 19 But woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days! 20 And pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on a sabbath: 21 for then shall be great tribulation, such as hath not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever shall be. 22 And except those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
• Mark 13:14 : 14 But when ye see the abomination of desolation standing where he ought not (let him that readeth understand), then let them that are in Judaea flee unto the mountains:
• Mark 13:19 : 19 For those days shall be tribulation, such as there hath not been the like from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never shall be.
• Luke 2:1 : 1 Now it came to pass in those days, there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be enrolled.
• Luke 19:43-44 : 43 For the days shall come upon thee, when thine enemies shall cast up a bank about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, 44 and shall dash thee to the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
• Luke 21:20-24 : 20 But when ye see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that her desolation is at hand. 21 Then let them that are in Judaea flee unto the mountains; and let them that are in the midst of her depart out; and let not them that are in the country enter {G1519} therein. 22 For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. 23 {G1161} Woe unto 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 unto this people. 24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led captive into all the nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
• Rom 9:27-29 : 27 And Isaiah crieth concerning Israel, If the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant that shall be saved: 28 for the Lord will execute [his] word upon the earth, finishing it and cutting it short. 29 And, as Isaiah hath said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, We had become as Sodom, and had been made like unto Gomorrah.
• Gal 4:26-27 : 26 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is {G3956} our mother. 27 For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; Break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: For {G4183} more are the children of the desolate than of her that hath the husband.
• Isa 65:6-9 : 6 Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, yea, I will recompense into their bosom, 7 your own iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith Jehovah, that have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills; therefore will I first measure their work into their bosom. 8 Thus saith Jehovah, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not, for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants' sake, that I may not destroy them all. 9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains; and my chosen shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
• Isa 65:18 : 18 But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create; for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
• Jer 34:1 : 1 The word which came unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth that were under his dominion, and all the peoples, were fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities thereof, saying:
• Lam 1:10 : 10 The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: For she hath seen that the nations are entered into her sanctuary, Concerning whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thine assembly.
• Lam 5:11-12 : 11 They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah. 12 Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.
• Dan 2:40-43 : 40 And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron, forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things; and as iron that crusheth all these, shall it break in pieces and crush. 41 And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, it shall be a divided kingdom; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. 42 And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. 43 And whereas thou sawest the 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 doth not mingle with clay.
• Deut 28:9-9 : 9 Jehovah will establish thee for a holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee; if thou shalt keep the commandments of Jehovah thy God, and walk in his ways. 10 And all the peoples of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of Jehovah; and they shall be afraid of thee. 11 And Jehovah will make thee plenteous for good, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which Jehovah sware unto thy fathers to give thee. 12 Jehovah will open unto thee his good treasure the heavens, to give the rain of thy land in its season, and to bless all the work of thy hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow. 13 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 shalt hearken unto the commandments of Jehovah thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do [them], 14 and shalt not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
• Isa 5:26 : 26 And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss for them from the end of the earth; and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly.