2 Kings 8:12

Good News Translation

“Why are you crying, sir?” Hazael asked. “Because I know the horrible things you will do against the people of Israel,” Elisha answered. “You will set their fortresses on fire, slaughter their finest young men, batter their children to death, and rip open their pregnant women.”

Cross References

1 Kings 18:13

Haven't you heard that when Jezebel was killing the prophets of the Lord I hid a hundred of them in caves, in two groups of fifty, and supplied them with food and water?

1 Kings 19:17

Anyone who escapes being put to death by Hazael will be killed by Jehu, and anyone who escapes Jehu will be killed by Elisha.

2 Kings 12:17

At that time King Hazael of Syria attacked the city of Gath and conquered it; then he decided to attack Jerusalem.

2 Kings 12:18

King Joash of Judah took all the offerings that his predecessors Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah had dedicated to the Lord, added to them his own offerings and all the gold in the treasuries of the Temple and the palace, and sent them all as a gift to King Hazael, who then led his army away from Jerusalem.

2 Kings 13:22

King Hazael of Syria oppressed the Israelites during all of Jehoahaz' reign,

2 Kings 13:3

So the Lord was angry with Israel, and he allowed King Hazael of Syria and his son Benhadad to defeat Israel time after time.

2 Kings 13:7

Jehoahaz had no armed forces left except fifty cavalry troops, ten chariots, and ten thousand foot soldiers, because the king of Syria had destroyed the rest, trampling them down like dust.

2 Kings 15:16

As Menahem was on his way from Tirzah, he completely destroyed the city of Tappuah, its inhabitants, and the surrounding territory, because the city did not surrender to him. He even ripped open the bellies of all the pregnant women.

2 Kings 4:28

The woman said to him, “Sir, did I ask you for a son? Didn't I tell you not to get my hopes up?”

Isaiah 13:16

While they look on helplessly, their babies will be battered to death, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be raped.”

Isaiah 13:18

With their bows and arrows they will kill the young men. They will show no mercy to babies and take no pity on children.

Hosea 10:14

war will come to your people, and all your fortresses will be destroyed. It will be like the day when King Shalman destroyed the city of Betharbel in battle, and mothers and their children were crushed to death.

Hosea 13:16

Samaria must be punished for rebelling against me. Her people will die in war; babies will be dashed to the ground, and pregnant women will be ripped open.”

Hosea 14:1

Return to the Lord your God, people of Israel. Your sin has made you stumble and fall.

Amos 1:13

The Lord says, “The people of Ammon have sinned again and again, and for this I will certainly punish them. In their wars for more territory they even ripped open pregnant women in Gilead.

Nahum 3:10

Yet the people of Thebes were carried off into exile. At every street corner their children were beaten to death. Their leading men were carried off in chains and divided among their captors.