2 Kings 8:12

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

My lord

2 Kings 4:28

1 Kings 18:13

The evil

Dash

Nahum 3:10

General references

Mark 14:71

Bible References

My lord

Then she said, Did I make a request to my lord for a son? did I not say, Do not give me false words?

Has my lord not had word of what I did when Jezebel was putting the Lord's prophets to death? how I kept a hundred of them in a secret hole in the rock, fifty at a time, and gave them bread and water?

The evil

In those days the Lord was angry first with Israel; and Hazael made attacks on all the land of Israel,

Then Hazael, king of Aram, went up against Gath and took it; and his purpose was to go up to Jerusalem.

So the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he gave them up into the power of Hazael, king of Aram, and into the power of Ben-hadad, the son of Hazael, again and again.

These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Damascus, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have been crushing Gilead with iron grain-crushing instruments.

Dash

Then Menahem sent destruction on Tappuah and all the people in it, and its limits, from Tirzah, because they would not let him come in; and he had all the women who were with child cut open.

O daughter of Babylon, whose fate is destruction; happy is the man who does to you what you have done to us.

Their young children will be broken up before their eyes; their goods will be taken away, and their wives made the property of others.

So a great outcry will go up from among your people, and all your strong places will be broken, as Beth-arbel was broken by Shalman in the day of war, as the mother was broken on the rocks with her children.

Samaria will be made waste, for she has gone against her God: they will be cut down by the sword, their little children will be broken on the rocks, their women who are with child will be cut open.

These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Damascus, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have been crushing Gilead with iron grain-crushing instruments.

But even she has been taken away, she has gone away as a prisoner: even her young children are smashed to bits at the top of all the streets: the fate of her honoured men is put to the decision of chance, and all her great men are put in chains.

General references

But, with curses and oaths, he said, I have no knowledge of the man about whom you are talking.