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See Isa 30, it refers to the "great slaughter caused by the collapse of the two towers." <

That isn't what the searchable KJV says:

ISA 30:25 And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

It doesn't say how many towers in that version. What is your source?

It might be in the Hebrew original (although I see nothing in that, how many pairs of towers are there in the world?) I can't say about Hebrew, but in Semitic languages, Arabic and Aramaic, the plural for two things is a particular formulation - ends in -ayn. Thus, Bahrain, means "islands" or more precisely "two islands." If the same construction is used in that Hebrew word, then it could be towers in the twin plural.

But I agree with you, it is all very dodgy to read this as a commentary on current events. Every year someone comes out with a new interpretation. A 17th century Quaker would tell you that it referred to the fire of London. Those chapters were in use only a few months ago, here, to show that the Al-Aksa mosque was going to collapse during Ramadan. Credulous people got totally wild with excitement about it ...

Also Isaiah 35, back in 1982, was confidently held to predict that Sharon was going to have a great victory in Lebanon, and build a highway all the way across the country ... But it did not quite work out that way.

In Hebrew, a simple plural means two. If one reads "elephant," that is one. If one reads "elephants," there are two. If there are to be three or more, one needs a word to say how many, or just that there ARE many, or several, etc.

Thus there are just two towers, not many. In any event, there is only one incident in the history of the world in which a "great slaughter" was caused by the falling of towers, however many.