Notice how similar this prophecy is to one about which the time and place are better known. The prophet Zecharaiah prophesies that when Jerusalem is under siege just prior to the Second Coming that the following will happen, 'I will gather all nations against Jersualem 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' (Zech 14:2).