2Ki 8:12, 15:16, Amo 1:13 | ESV | STEP | And Hazael said , Why does my lord weep ? He answered , Because I know the evil that you will do to the people of Israel . You will set on fire their fortresses , and you will kill their young men with the sword and dash in pieces their little ones and rip open their pregnant women.

a ch. 10:32; 12:17; 13:3, 7, 22; Amos 1:3, 4

b Isa. 13:16; Hos. 13:16; Nah. 3:10; [Ps. 137:9; Hos. 10:14]

d[See ver. 3 above]

2 Kings 8:12

12 And Hazael said, “Why does my lord weep?” He answered, “Because I know ^athe evil that you will do to the people of Israel. You will set on fire their fortresses, and you will kill their young men with the sword ^band dash in pieces their little ones and rip open their pregnant women.”

2 Kings 15:16

16 At that time Menahem sacked Tiphsah and all who were in it and its territory from Tirzah on, because they did not open it to him. Therefore he sacked it, ^cand he ripped open all the women in it who were pregnant.

Amos 1:13

13 Thus says the Lord:

^d“For three transgressions of the ^eAmmonites,
and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because ^fthey have ripped open pregnant women in ^gGilead,
that they might enlarge their border.