2 Kings 8:12

New Century Version

Hazael asked, “Why are you crying, master?” Elisha answered, “Because I know what evil you will do to the Israelites. You will burn their strong, walled cities with fire and kill their young men with swords. You will throw their babies to the ground and split open their pregnant women.”

Cross References

1 Kings 18:13

Haven’t you been told what I did? When Jezebel was killing the Lord’s prophets, I hid a hundred of them, fifty in one cave and fifty in another. I brought them food and water.

1 Kings 19:17

Jehu will kill anyone who escapes from Hazael’s sword, and Elisha will kill anyone who escapes from Jehu’s sword.

2 Kings 12:17

About this time Hazael king of Aram attacked Gath and captured it. Then he went to attack Jerusalem.

2 Kings 12:18

Joash king of Judah took all the holy things given by his ancestors, the kings of Judah—Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah. He also took his own holy things as well as the gold that was found in the treasuries of the Temple of the Lord and the gold from the palace. Joash sent all this treasure to Hazael king of Aram, who turned away from Jerusalem.

2 Kings 13:22

During all the days Jehoahaz was king, Hazael king of Aram troubled Israel.

2 Kings 13:3

So the Lord was angry with Israel and handed them over to Hazael king of Aram and his son Ben-Hadad for a long time.

2 Kings 13:7

Nothing was left of Jehoahaz’s army except fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand foot soldiers. The king of Aram had destroyed them and made them like chaff.

2 Kings 15:16

Menahem started out from Tirzah and attacked Tiphsah, destroying the city and the area nearby. This was because the people had refused to open the city gate for him. He defeated them and ripped open all their pregnant women.

2 Kings 4:28

She said, “Master, did I ask you for a son? Didn’t I tell you not to lie to me?”

Isaiah 13:16

Their little children will be beaten to death in front of them. Their houses will be robbed and their wives raped.

Isaiah 13:18

Their soldiers will shoot the young men with arrows; they will show no mercy on children, nor will they feel sorry for little ones.

Hosea 10:14

your people will hear the noise of battle, and all your strong, walled cities will be destroyed. It will be like the time King Shalman destroyed Beth Arbel in battle, when mothers and their children were bashed to death.

Hosea 13:16

The nation of Israel will be ruined, because it fought against God. The people of Israel will die in war; their children will be torn to pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open.”

Hosea 14:1

Israel, return to the Lord your God, because your sins have made you fall.

Amos 1:13

This is what the Lord says: “For the many crimes of Ammon, I will punish them. They ripped open the pregnant women in Gilead so they could take over that land and make their own country larger.

Nahum 3:10

But Thebes was captured and went into captivity. Her small children were beaten to death at every street corner. Lots were thrown for her important men, and all of her leaders were put in chains.