For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city will be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go out into captivity, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.
⛓ Read Zechariah 14 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle' on the Day of the LORD. Direct template for gathering the kings of the whole earth 'for the war of that great day' (16:14).
High confidenceThe Lord gathers all nations against Jerusalem; the city is taken, houses plundered, and half go into captivity. Jesus' falling by the sword and being led captive into all nations closely tracks Zechariah's siege-and-exile sequence. Strong recurrence of the captivity-of-Jerusalem theme.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle' — the eschatological gathering of the nations to war against the holy city undergirds 'gather them together to the war' and 'the beloved city.' Hays coherence with the Zech siege motif.
Medium confidence