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 authority over all the country on this side of the River, from Tiphsah to Gaza, over all the kings on this side of the River; and he had peace round him on every side.
All the women
2 Kings 8:12
And Hazael said, Why is my lord weeping? Then he said in answer, Because I see the evil which you will do to the children of Israel: burning down their strong towns, putting their young men to death with the sword, smashing their little ones against the stones, and cutting open the women who are with child.
Amos 1:13
These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because in Gilead they had women with child cut open, so that they might make wider the limits of their land.
General references
Judges 9:52
And Abimelech came to the tower and made an attack on it, and got near to the door of the tower for the purpose of firing it.
Matthew 24:19
But it will be hard for women who are with child and for those with babies at the breast in those days.