Hosea 13:16

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

Samaria must be punished because she turned against her God. The Israelites will be killed with swords. Their children will be torn to pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open.”

Cross References

2 Kings 15:16

Menahem defeated Tiphsah and the area around it. The people refused to open the city gate for him. So Menahem defeated them and ripped open all the pregnant women in that city.

2 Kings 8:12

Hazael said, “Sir, why are you crying?” Elisha answered, “I am crying because I know the bad things you will do to the Israelites. You will burn their strong cities and kill their young men with swords. You will kill their babies and split open their pregnant women.”

Isaiah 13:16

Everything in their houses will be stolen. Their wives will be raped, and their little children will be beaten to death while they watch.

Amos 1:13

This is what the Lord says: “I will definitely punish the Ammonites for the many crimes they did. They killed the pregnant women in Gilead. The Ammonites did this so that they could take that land and make their country larger.

Nahum 3:10

but Thebes was defeated. Her people were taken away as prisoners to a foreign country. Soldiers beat her small children to death at every street corner. They threw lots to see who got to keep the important people as slaves. They put chains on all the important men of Thebes.

Micah 6:16

This is because you obey the laws of Omri. You do all the evil things that Ahab’s family does. You follow their teachings, so I will let you be destroyed. People will whistle in amazement when they see your destroyed city. Then you will bear the shame that the other nations bring to you.”

Micah 1:4

The mountains will melt under him like wax in a fire. The valleys will break apart and slide like water rushing down a hill.

Amos 9:1

I saw the Lord standing by the altar, and he said, “Hit the top of the columns, and shake them to the ground. Push them and they will fall on everyone’s head. As for those who survive, I will kill them with a sword. None of them will run away. None of them will escape.

Amos 3:9

Go to the high towers in Ashdod and in Egypt and announce this message from the Lord: “Come together on the mountains of Samaria. See the great confusion there because the people don’t know how to live right. See how cruel they are to others. They take things from people to hide in their high towers. Their treasuries are filled with the things they have taken in war.”

Hosea 11:6

The sword will swing against their cities and kill their strong men. It will destroy their leaders.

Hosea 10:2

The people of Israel tried to trick God, but now they must accept their guilt. He will break down their altars and destroy their memorial stones.

Hosea 7:14

They never call to me from their hearts. Yes, they cry on their beds. And they cut themselves when they ask for grain and new wine. But in their hearts, they have turned away from me.

Isaiah 17:3

The fort cities of Ephraim will be destroyed. The government in Damascus will be finished. Those left in Aram will lose everything, just like the people of Israel,” says the Lord All-Powerful.

Isaiah 8:4

He said that because before the boy learns to say “Mama” and “Daddy,” God will take all the wealth and riches from Damascus and Samaria and give them to the king of Assyria.

2 Kings 17:18

So the Lord became very angry with Israel and removed them from his sight. There were no Israelites left, except the tribe of Judah.

2 Kings 17:6

The king of Assyria took Samaria during the ninth year that Hoshea was king of Israel. He captured many Israelites and took them as prisoners to Assyria. He made them live in Halah by the Habor River at Gozan and in other cities of the Medes.

2 Kings 17:5

The king of Assyria attacked many places in Israel. Then he came to Samaria and fought against it for three years.