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 the rule over all on this side of the River, from Tiphsah even to Azzah, over all the kings on this side the River. And he had peace on all sides all around him.

All the women

2 Kings 8:12
And Hazael said, Why does my lord weep? And he answered, Because I know the evil that you will do to the sons of Israel. You will set their strongholds on fire, and you will kill their young men with the sword, and will dash their children, and rip up their women with child.
Amos 1:13
So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of the sons of Ammon, yea for four, I will not turn away from it. Because they have ripped up the pregnant women of Gilead, to make their own border larger.

General references

Judges 9:52
And Abimelech came to the tower and fought against it, and went hard to the door of the tower to burn it with fire.
Matthew 24:19
And woe to those who are with child, and to those who give suck in those days!