All nations against Jerusalem

The remnant will defend Jerusalem

The main body escaped with two wings of a great eagle

all nations against Jerusalem to battle

the city shall be taken

half of the city shall go forth into captivity

residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city

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.

Is there a time gap here?

Is "all nations against Jerusalem" at the mid-point?

Does this last for 3.5 years?

City trodden down for 42 months

3 Then shall the LORD go forth,

and fight against those nations,

as when he fought in the day of battle.

4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives,

which is before Jerusalem on the east,

and the mount of Olives

shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west,

and there shall be a very great valley;

and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north,

and half of it toward the south.

5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains;

for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal:

yea, ye shall flee,

like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah:

and the LORD my God shall come,

and all the saints with thee.

6 And it shall come to pass in that day,

that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:

7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD,

not day, nor night:

but it shall come to pass,

that at evening time it shall be light.

8 And it shall be in that day,

that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem;

half of them toward the former sea,

and half of them toward the hinder sea:

in summer and in winter shall it be.

9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth:

in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.

10 All the land shall be turned as a plain

from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem:

and it shall be lifted up,

and inhabited in her place,

from Benjamin’s gate unto the place of the first gate,

unto the corner gate,

and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king’s winepresses.

11 And men shall dwell in it,

and there shall be no more utter destruction;

but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.

12 And this shall be the plague

wherewith the LORD will smite all the people

that have fought against Jerusalem;

Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,

and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,

and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.

13 And it shall come to pass in that day,

that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them;

and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour,

and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.

14 And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem;

and the wealth of all the heathen round about

shall be gathered together,

gold, and silver, and apparel, in great abundance.

15 And so shall be the plague of the horse,

of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass,

and of all the beasts that shall be in these tents,

as this plague.

16 And it shall come to pass,

that every one that is left of all the nations

which came against Jerusalem

shall even go up from year to year to worship the King,

the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.

17 And it shall be,

that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth

unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts,

even upon them shall be no rain.

18 And if the family of Egypt go not up,

and come not, that have no rain;

there shall be the plague,

wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen

that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt,

and the punishment of all nations

that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

20 In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses,

HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD;

and the pots in the LORD’S house

shall be like the bowls before the altar.

21 Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah

shall be holiness unto the LORD of hosts:

and all they that sacrifice

shall come and take of them, and seethe therein:

and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite

in the house of the LORD of hosts.

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