Nahum 3:10

New Living Translation

Yet Thebes fell, and her people were led away as captives. Her babies were dashed to death against the stones of the streets. Soldiers threw dice to get Egyptian officers as servants. All their leaders were bound in chains.

Cross References

2 Kings 8:12

“What’s the matter, my lord?” Hazael asked him. Elisha replied, “I know the terrible things you will do to the people of Israel. You will burn their fortified cities, kill their young men with the sword, dash their little children to the ground, and rip open their pregnant women!”

Job 6:27

You would even send an orphan into slavery or sell a friend.

Psalm 137:8

O Babylon, you will be destroyed. Happy is the one who pays you back for what you have done to us.

Psalm 137:9

Happy is the one who takes your babies and smashes them against the rocks!

Psalm 149:8

to bind their kings with shackles and their leaders with iron chains,

Isaiah 13:16

Their little children will be dashed to death before their eyes. Their homes will be sacked, and their wives will be raped.

Isaiah 13:6

Scream in terror, for the day of the Lord has arrived— the time for the Almighty to destroy.

Isaiah 19:4

I will hand Egypt over to a hard, cruel master. A fierce king will rule them,” says the Lord, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.

Isaiah 20:4

For the king of Assyria will take away the Egyptians and Ethiopians as prisoners. He will make them walk naked and barefoot, both young and old, their buttocks bared, to the shame of Egypt.

Lamentations 2:19

Rise during the night and cry out. Pour out your hearts like water to the Lord. Lift up your hands to him in prayer, pleading for your children, for in every street they are faint with hunger.

Lamentations 4:1

How the gold has lost its luster! Even the finest gold has become dull. The sacred gemstones lie scattered in the streets!

Ezekiel 29:7

When Israel leaned on you, you splintered and broke and stabbed her in the armpit. When she put her weight on you, you collapsed, and her legs gave way.

Hosea 13:16

The people of Samaria must bear the consequences of their guilt because they rebelled against their God. They will be killed by an invading army, their little ones dashed to death against the ground, their pregnant women ripped open by swords.”

Joel 3:3

They threw dice to decide which of my people would be their slaves. They traded boys to obtain prostitutes and sold girls for enough wine to get drunk.

Amos 1:13

This is what the Lord says: “The people of Ammon have sinned again and again, and I will not let them go unpunished! When they attacked Gilead to extend their borders, they ripped open pregnant women with their swords.

Obadiah 1:11

When they were invaded, you stood aloof, refusing to help them. Foreign invaders carried off their wealth and cast lots to divide up Jerusalem, but you acted like one of Israel’s enemies.