Dan 11:40-45, Joe 3:9-14, Zec 12:2-8, Zec 14 | ESV | STEP | At the time of the end , the king of the south shall attack him , but the king of the north shall rush upon him like a whirlwind, with chariots and horsemen , and with many ships . And he shall come into countries and shall overflow and pass through .

40 ^a“At the time of the end, the king of the south shall attack ^{▼▼Hebrew thrust at} him, but the king of the north shall rush upon him ^clike a whirlwind, with chariots and horsemen, and with many ships. And he shall come into countries and ^dshall overflow and pass through. 41 He shall come into ^ethe glorious land. And tens of thousands shall fall, but these shall be delivered out of his hand: ^fEdom and ^gMoab and the main part of the ^hAmmonites. 42 He shall stretch out his hand against the countries, and the land of Egypt shall not escape. 43 He shall become ruler of the treasures of gold and of silver, and all the precious things of Egypt, and the ⁱLibyans and the ^jCushites shall follow in his train. 44 But news from the east and the north shall alarm him, and he shall go out with great fury to destroy and devote many to destruction. 45 And he shall pitch his palatial tents between the sea and the glorious holy mountain. Yet he shall come to his end, with none to help him.

Joel 3:9-14

9 Proclaim this among the nations:
^kConsecrate for war; ^{▼▼Or Consecrate a war}
stir up the mighty men.
Let all the men of war draw near;
let them come up.
10 ^mBeat your plowshares into swords,
and ⁿyour pruning hooks into spears;
let the weak say, “I am a warrior.”
11 ^oHasten and come,
all you surrounding nations,
and gather yourselves there.
^pBring down your warriors, O Lord.
12 Let the nations stir themselves up
and come up to ^qthe Valley of Jehoshaphat;
^rfor there I will sit to judge
all the surrounding nations.
13 ^sPut in the sickle,
^tfor the harvest is ripe.
^uGo in, tread,
^vfor the winepress is full.
The vats overflow,
for their evil is great.
14 Multitudes, multitudes,
in the valley of decision!
For ^wthe day of the Lord is near
in the valley of decision.

Zechariah 12:2-8

2 “Behold, I am about to make Jerusalem ^xa cup of staggering to ^yall the surrounding peoples. The siege of Jerusalem ^zwill also be against Judah. 3 ^aaOn that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples. ^abAll who lift it will surely hurt themselves. And ^acall the nations of the earth will gather against it. 4 ^adOn that day, declares the Lord, ^aeI will strike every horse ^afwith panic, and its rider ^agwith madness. But for the sake of the house of Judah I will keep my eyes open, when I strike every horse of the peoples ^ahwith blindness. 5 Then the clans of Judah shall say to themselves, ‘The inhabitants of Jerusalem have strength through the Lord of hosts, their God.’

6 ^ai“On that day I will make the clans of Judah ^ajlike a blazing pot in the midst of wood, like a flaming torch among sheaves. And ^akthey shall devour to the right and to the left all the surrounding peoples, while ^alJerusalem shall again be inhabited in its place, in Jerusalem.

7 “And the Lord will give salvation to the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem may not surpass that of Judah. 8 ^amOn that day ^anthe Lord will protect the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that ^aothe feeblest among them on that day shall be like David, and the house of David shall be like God, ^aplike the angel of the Lord, going before them.

Zechariah 14

The Coming Day of the Lord

1 Behold, ^aqa day is coming for the Lord, when the spoil taken from you will be divided in your midst. 2 For ^arI will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and ^asthe city shall be taken ^atand the houses plundered ^auand the women raped. ^avHalf of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city. 3 ^awThen the Lord will go out and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle. 4 ^axOn that day his feet shall stand ^ayon ^azthe Mount of Olives that lies before Jerusalem on the east, and ^bathe Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by ^bba very wide valley, so that one half of the Mount shall move northward, and the other half southward. 5 And you shall flee to the valley of my mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal. And you shall flee as you fled from ^bcthe earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come, and all the holy ones with him.

6 ^bdOn that day ^bethere shall be ^bfno light, cold, or frost. ^{▼▼Compare Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate, Targum; the meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain} 7 ^bhAnd there shall be a unique ^{▼▼Hebrew one} day, ^bjwhich is known to the Lord, neither day nor night, but ^bkat evening time there shall be light.

8 ^blOn that day ^bmliving waters shall flow out from Jerusalem, half of them to ^bnthe eastern sea ^{▼▼That is, the Dead Sea} and half of them to ^bpthe western sea. ^{▼▼That is, the Mediterranean Sea} ^brIt shall continue in summer as in winter.

9 And ^bsthe Lord will be king over all the earth. ^btOn that day the Lord will be ^buone and ^bvhis name one.

10 ^bwThe whole land shall be turned into a plain from ^bxGeba to ^byRimmon south of Jerusalem. But ^bzJerusalem shall remain aloft ^caon its site from ^cbthe Gate of Benjamin to the place of the former gate, to ^ccthe Corner Gate, and from ^cdthe Tower of Hananel to the king’s winepresses. 11 And it shall be inhabited, for ^cethere shall never again be a decree of utter destruction. ^{▼▼The Hebrew term rendered decree of utter destruction refers to things devoted (or set apart) to the Lord (or by the Lord) for destruction} ^cgJerusalem shall dwell in security.

12 And this shall be ^chthe plague with which the Lord will strike all the peoples that wage war against Jerusalem: their flesh will rot while they are still standing on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.

13 And ^cion that day a great panic from the Lord shall fall on them, so that ^cjeach will seize the hand of another, and the hand of the one will be raised against the hand of the other. 14 Even ^ckJudah will fight at Jerusalem. And ^clthe wealth of all the surrounding nations shall be collected, gold, silver, and garments in great abundance. 15 And ^cma plague like this plague shall fall on the horses, the mules, the camels, the donkeys, and whatever beasts may be in those camps.

16 Then everyone who survives of all the nations that have come against Jerusalem ^cnshall go up year after year to worship ^cothe King, the Lord of hosts, and ^cpto keep ^cqthe Feast of Booths. 17 And if ^crany of the families of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship ^csthe King, the Lord of hosts, ^ctthere will be no rain on them. 18 And if the family of Egypt does not go up and present themselves, then on them there shall be no rain; ^{▼▼Hebrew lacks rain} there shall be ^cvthe plague with which the Lord afflicts the nations that do not go up ^cwto keep the Feast of Booths. 19 This shall be the punishment to Egypt and the punishment to all the nations that do not go up ^cxto keep the Feast of Booths.

20 And ^cyon that day there shall be inscribed on the bells of the horses, ^cz“Holy to the Lord.” And the pots in the house of the Lord shall be as the bowls before the altar. 21 And every pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be ^daholy to the Lord of hosts, so that all who sacrifice may come and take of them and boil the meat of the sacrifice in them. And ^dbthere shall no longer be ^dca trader ^{▼▼Or Canaanite} in the house of the Lord of hosts ^deon that day.