Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.

Bible References

Children

Psalm 137:8

O daughter of Babylon, you devastator,
How blessed will be the one
Who repays you [with destruction] as you have repaid us.
Hosea 10:14

Therefore an uproar will arise among your people,
And all your fortresses will be destroyed,
As Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel on the day of battle,
When mothers were dashed in pieces with their children.
Nahum 3:10

Yet she became an exile;
She went into captivity.
Her young children were dashed to pieces
At the head of every street;
They cast lots for her honorable men,
And all her great men were bound with chains.

And their

Lamentations 5:11

They ravished the women in Zion,
The virgins in the cities of Judah.
Zechariah 14:2
For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city will be captured and the houses plundered and the women ravished; and half of the city will be exiled, but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.

General references

Psalm 94:6

They kill the widow and the alien
And murder the fatherless.
Isaiah 13:12

I will make mortal man more rare than fine gold,
And mankind [scarcer] than the pure gold of Ophir.
Lamentations 5:11

They ravished the women in Zion,
The virgins in the cities of Judah.