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

10 (A)Yet she became an exile;
    she went into captivity;
(B)her infants were dashed in pieces
    at the head of every street;
for her honored men (C)lots were cast,
    (D)and all her great men were bound in chains.

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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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(A)And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he gave them continually into the hand of (B)Hazael king of Syria and into the hand of (C)Ben-hadad the son of Hazael.

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17 At that time (A)Hazael king of Syria went up and fought against Gath and took it. But when Hazael set his face (B)to go up against Jerusalem,

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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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16 (A)Their infants will be dashed in pieces
    before their eyes;
their houses will be plundered
    and their wives ravished.

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For there was not left to Jehoahaz an army of more than fifty horsemen and ten chariots and ten thousand footmen, for the king of Syria had destroyed them and made them like the dust (A)at threshing.

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14 therefore (A)the tumult of war shall arise among your people,
    and all your fortresses shall be destroyed,
as (B)Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel on the day of battle;
    (C)mothers were dashed in pieces with their children.

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18 (A)Their bows will slaughter[a] the young men;
    they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb;
    their eyes will not pity children.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 13:18 Hebrew dash in pieces

32 In those days the Lord (A)began to cut off parts of Israel. (B)Hazael defeated them throughout the territory of Israel: 33 from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from (C)Aroer, which is by the Valley of the Arnon, that is, (D)Gilead and Bashan.

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Thus says the Lord:

(A)“For three transgressions of (B)Damascus,
    and for four, (C)I will not revoke the punishment,[a]
because they have threshed (D)Gilead
    with threshing sledges of iron.
(E)So I will send a fire upon the house of (F)Hazael,
    and it shall devour the strongholds of (G)Ben-hadad.
I will (H)break the gate-bar of (I)Damascus,
    and cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of (J)Aven,[b]
and him who holds the scepter from (K)Beth-eden;
    and the people of (L)Syria shall go into exile to (M)Kir,”
says the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 1:3 Hebrew I will not turn it back; also verses 6, 9, 11, 13
  2. Amos 1:5 Or On

O daughter of Babylon, (A)doomed to be destroyed,
    blessed shall he be who (B)repays you
    with what you have done to us!
Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones
    and (C)dashes them against the rock!

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28 Then she said, “Did I ask my lord for a son? (A)Did I not say, ‘Do not deceive me?’”

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13 Has it not been told my lord what I did (A)when Jezebel killed the prophets of the Lord, how I hid a hundred men of the Lord's prophets by fifties in a cave and fed them with bread and water?

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