16 At that time Menahem sacked Tiphsah and all who were in it and its territory from Tirzah on, because they did not open it to him. Therefore he sacked it, (A)and he ripped open all the women in it who were pregnant.

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12 And Hazael said, “Why does my lord weep?” He answered, “Because I know (A)the evil that you will do to the people of Israel. You will set on fire their fortresses, and you will kill their young men with the sword (B)and dash in pieces their little ones and rip open their pregnant women.”

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16 [a] Samaria (A)shall bear her guilt,
    because (B)she has rebelled against her God;
they shall fall by the sword;
    (C)their little ones shall be dashed in pieces,
    and their (D)pregnant women ripped open.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 13:16 Ch 14:1 in Hebrew

24 For he had dominion over all the region west of the Euphrates[a] from Tiphsah to (A)Gaza, over all the kings west of the Euphrates. (B)And he had peace on all sides around him.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 4:24 Hebrew the River; twice in this verse

13 Thus says the Lord:

(A)“For three transgressions of the (B)Ammonites,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because (C)they have ripped open pregnant women in (D)Gilead,
    that they might enlarge their border.

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