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2 Kings 8:122Kgs.8.12

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.

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Hebrew original

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Hazaël dit: Pourquoi mon seigneur pleure-t-il? Et Elisée répondit: Parce que je sais le mal que tu feras aux enfants d'Israël; tu mettras le feu à leurs villes fortes, tu tueras avec l'épée leurs jeunes gens, tu écraseras leurs petits enfants, et tu fendras le ventre de leurs femmes enceintes.

KJV

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.

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    Patrologia Latina Vol. 139 (Migne)

    sis filiis Israel: civitates eorum munitas capies, praegnantes divides, infantes gladio interficies (IV Reg. VIII, 12) . Pari modo rex [Col. 0856C] Gothorum, Totila, ad Dei hominem Benedictum veniens, atque coram eo prostratus et ab ipso de terra elevatus, haec sibi dicentem aud…

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