12 And Hazael said, “Why is my lord weeping?”

He answered, “Because I know (A)the evil that you will do to the children of Israel: Their strongholds you will set on fire, and their young men you will kill with the sword; and you (B)will dash their children, and rip open their women with child.”

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10 Yet she was carried away,
She went into captivity;
(A)Her young children also were dashed to pieces
(B)At the head of every street;
They (C)cast lots for her honorable men,
And all her great men were bound in chains.

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16 Samaria [a]is held guilty,
For she has (A)rebelled against her God.
They shall fall by the sword,
Their infants shall be dashed in pieces,
And their women with child (B)ripped open.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 13:16 LXX shall be disfigured

16 Then from Tirzah, Menahem attacked (A)Tiphsah, all who were there, and its territory. Because they did not surrender, therefore he attacked it. All (B)the women there who were with child he ripped open.

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Then (A)the anger of the Lord was aroused against Israel, and He delivered them into the hand of (B)Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of (C)Ben-Hadad the son of Hazael, all their days.

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Hazael Threatens Jerusalem

17 (A)Hazael king of Syria went up and fought against Gath, and took it; then (B)Hazael set his face to [a]go up to Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 12:17 Advance upon

13 Thus says the Lord:

“For three transgressions of (A)the people of Ammon, and for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
Because they ripped open the women with child in Gilead,
That they might enlarge their territory.

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16 Their children also will be (A)dashed to pieces before their eyes;
Their houses will be plundered
And their wives (B)ravished.

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For He left of the army of Jehoahaz only fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand foot soldiers; for the king of Syria had destroyed them (A)and made them (B)like the dust at threshing.

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14 Therefore tumult shall arise among your people,
And all your fortresses shall be plundered
As Shalman plundered Beth Arbel in the day of battle—
A mother dashed in pieces upon her children.

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18 Also their bows will dash the young men to pieces,
And they will have no pity on the fruit of the womb;
Their eye will not spare children.

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Death of Jehu

32 In those days the Lord began to cut off parts of Israel; and (A)Hazael conquered them in all the territory of Israel 33 from the Jordan eastward: all the land of Gilead—Gad, Reuben, and Manasseh—from (B)Aroer, which is by the River Arnon, including (C)Gilead and Bashan.

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Judgment on the Nations

Thus says the Lord:

“For three transgressions of (A)Damascus, and for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
Because they have (B)threshed Gilead with implements of iron.
(C)But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael,
Which shall devour the palaces of (D)Ben-Hadad.
I will also break the gate (E)bar of Damascus,
And cut off the inhabitant from the Valley of Aven,
And the one who [a]holds the scepter from [b]Beth Eden.
The people of Syria shall go captive to Kir,”
Says the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 1:5 Rules
  2. Amos 1:5 Lit. House of Eden

O daughter of Babylon, (A)who are to be destroyed,
Happy the one (B)who repays you as you have served us!
Happy the one who takes and (C)dashes
Your little ones against the rock!

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

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13 Was it not reported to my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of the Lord, how I hid one hundred men of the Lord’s prophets, fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water?

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