16Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.
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And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child.
Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they opened not to him, therefore he smote it; and all the women therein that were with child he ripped up.
Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. …
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-16)The first of these verses is the summary, or contents, of all the rest (Hos. 14:9), where we have, 1. All the blame of Israel’s ruin laid upon themselves: O Israel! thy perdition is thence ; it is of and from thyself; or, “ It has destroyed thee, O Israel ! that is, all that sin and folly of thine which thou art before charged with. As thy own wickedness has many a time corrected thee , so that ha…
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