Thematic Bible: Hazael, committing pillage (plundering)


Thematic Bible



And Hazael said, "Why weepeth my lord?" And he answered, "For I know that thou shalt do evil unto the children of Israel: their strong cities thou shalt set on fire, and their young men thou shalt slay with the sword, and shalt dash out the brains of their sucking children: and all to tear their women with child." Verse ConceptsCruelty, examples ofPregnancyGashing BodiesHarming Pregnant WomenKilling Will Happen

Then came Hazael king of Syria, and fought against Gath and took it, and appointed himself to go up to Jerusalem. Verse ConceptsFacesAttackingWhole HeartednessCapturing Cities

In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short, for Hazael slew them in all the coasts of Israel, Verse ConceptsNumbers ReducingDefeat Of God's People

Wherefore, the LORD was angry with Israel, and delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael all their days. But Jehoahaz besought the LORD, and the LORD heard him. For he had seen the oppression of Israel, how the king of Syria oppressed them. And therefore the LORD gave Israel a deliverer and they went out from under the hands of the Syrians. And the children of Israel dwelt in their tents as before time. read more.
Nevertheless they departed not from the sin of the house of Jeroboam which made Israel sin, but walked therein. And there remained a grove also in Samaria still: But there were left of the people, to Jehoahaz, but fifty horsemen and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen - for the king of Syria had destroyed them and made them like threshed chaff.