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Amos 1:13

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

The Lord says: I will not relent from punishing the Ammonites for three crimes, even four, because they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead in order to enlarge their territory.

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Samaria  will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their children will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.


‘ “Because you said, ‘These two nations and two lands will be mine, and we will possess them’ #– #though the Lord was there   #– #


Woe to those who add house to house and join field to field until there is no more room and you alone are left in the land.


The Lord says: I will not relent from punishing Damascus for three crimes, even four, because they threshed Gilead with iron sledges.


‘Now you, son of man, prophesy, and say, “This is what the Lord God says concerning the Ammonites and their contempt.” You are to proclaim, “A sword! A sword is drawn for slaughter, polished to consume,  to flash like lightning.


When Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official,  and Geshem the Arab  heard about this, they mocked and despised us, and said, ‘What is this you’re doing? Are you rebelling against the king? ’


Now here are the Ammonites, Moabites, and the inhabitants of Mount Seir.  You did not let Israel invade them when Israel came out of the land of Egypt, but Israel turned away from them and did not destroy them.


After this, the Moabites and Ammonites, together with some of the Meunites,  , came to fight against Jehoshaphat.


The Lord sent Chaldean, Aramean,  Moabite,  and Ammonite raiders against Jehoiakim. He sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord he had spoken through his servants the prophets.


When you get close to the Ammonites, don’t show any hostility to them or provoke them, for I will not give you any of the Ammonites’ land as a possession; I have given it as a possession to the descendants of Lot.” ’


At that time, starting from Tirzah, Menahem attacked Tiphsah,  all who were in it, and its territory because they wouldn’t surrender.  He ripped open all the pregnant women.


Edom, Moab, and the Ammonites;


He removed the people who were in the city and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and iron axes, and to labour at brickmaking.  He did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then he and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.


and Hazael asked, ‘Why is my lord weeping? ’ He replied, ‘Because I know the evil you will do to the people of Israel. You will set their fortresses on fire. You will kill their young men with the sword. You will dash their children to pieces. You will rip open their pregnant women.’


Then the word of the Lord came to me:


Israel, return to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled in your iniquity.





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