Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Tiphsah

All the women

General references

Bible References

Tiphsah

1 Kings 4:24
For he had dominion over everything west of the River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings west of the River; and he had peace on all sides around about him.

All the women

2 Kings 8:12
Hazael said, “Why does my lord weep?” Then he answered, “Because I know the evil that you will do to the sons of Israel: their strongholds you will set on fire, and their young men you will kill with the sword, and their little ones you will dash in pieces, and their women with child you will rip up.”
Amos 1:13
Thus says the Lord,
“For three transgressions of the sons of Ammon and for four
I will not revoke its punishment,
Because they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead
In order to enlarge their borders.

General references

Judges 9:52
So Abimelech came to the tower and fought against it, and approached the entrance of the tower to burn it with fire.
Matthew 24:19
But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!