Amos 1:13

Modern English Version

Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of the Ammonites, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead, in order to enlarge their border.

Cross References

2 Samuel 12:31

He brought out the people who were in it, and he put them to work with saws, and iron picks, and iron axes, and sent them to work in the brick kiln. Thus he did to all of the cities of the Ammonites. Then David and all of the people returned to Jerusalem.

2 Kings 15:16

Then Menahem struck Tiphsah and all who were in it, and the territories around Tirzah. Because they did not open up the city to him, he attacked it. Then he split open all its pregnant women.

2 Kings 24:2

The Lord sent against him bands of Chaldeans, bands of Arameans, bands of Moabites, and bands of Ammonites. He sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord that He spoke by His servants the prophets.

2 Kings 8:12

Hazael said, “Why are you weeping, my lord?” He said, “Because I know the evil that you will do to the Israelites. You will set their fortresses on fire. You will kill their young men with the sword. You will smash their children and rip open their pregnant women.”

2 Chronicles 20:1

After that, the Moabites and the Ammonites, together with some Meunites, came against Jehoshaphat for battle.

2 Chronicles 20:10

“And now, behold, the Ammonites and Moabites and Mount Seir, whom You did not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt, when they turned away from them and did not destroy them,

Nehemiah 2:19

But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite subordinate, and Geshem the Arabian heard it, they laughed at us in mockery, and despised us, and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”

Psalm 83:7

Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;

Isaiah 5:8

Woe to those who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is no more space where they may live alone in the midst of the land!

Jeremiah 25:21

Edom, and Moab, and the Ammonites;

Ezekiel 21:28

You, son of man, prophesy and say: Thus says the Lord God concerning the Ammonites and concerning their reproach, and say, The sword, the sword is drawn, polished for the slaughter, to cause it to consume that it may be like lightning,

Ezekiel 25:1

The word of the Lord came again to me, saying:

Ezekiel 35:10

Because you have said, “These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess them,” whereas the Lord was there,

Hosea 13:16

Samaria will be held guilty, for she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword, their infants will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open.

Hosea 14:1

Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.

Amos 1:3

Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron.

Deuteronomy 2:19

When you come close to the Ammonites, do not harass them or provoke them, for I will not give you any of the land of the Ammonites as a possession, because I have given it to the sons of Lot for a possession.”