Cross references

2 Kings 8:12

“Why is my lord weeping?” asked Hazael.

“Because I know the evil you will do to the Israelites,” Elisha replied. “You will set fire to their fortresses, kill their young men with the sword, dash their little ones to pieces, and rip open their pregnant women.”

2 Kings 8:12 BSB

2 Kings 8:12 has 15 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 8 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Hosea 13:16 (9 votes) and Nahum 3:10 (8 votes). 25 other verses point back to it. It links with 12 other books, from 1 Samuel 1 to Romans 3.

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Which verses does 2 Kings 8:12 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Samaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.

  2. Nahum 3:108 votes

    Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity. Her infants were dashed to pieces at the head of every street. They cast lots for her dignitaries, and all her nobles were bound in chains.

  3. At that time Menahem, starting from Tirzah, attacked Tiphsah and everyone in its vicinity, because they would not open their gates. So he attacked Tiphsah and ripped open all the pregnant women.

  4. At that time Hazael king of Aram marched up and fought against Gath and captured it. Then he decided to attack Jerusalem.

  5. So the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He delivered them continually into the hands of Hazael king of Aram and his son Ben-hadad.

  6. Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be ravished.

  7. Amos 1:135 votes

    This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of the Ammonites, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead in order to enlarge their territory.

  8. Jehoahaz had no army left, except fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand foot soldiers, because the king of Aram had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing.

  9. In those days the LORD began to reduce the size of Israel. Hazael defeated the Israelites throughout their territory from the Jordan eastward through all the land of Gilead (the region of Gad, Reuben, and Manasseh), and from Aroer by the Arnon Valley through Gilead to Bashan.

  10. Their bows will dash young men to pieces; they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb; they will not look with pity on the children.

Which verses point to 2 Kings 8:12?

The 10 strongest of 25.