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1 | Baby Smashing? | Ps 137:9 | kalos | 111186 | ||
The following are references to the wholesale slaughter of babies in the context of ancient Near Eastern warfare. 2 Kings 8:12 (ESV) And Hazael said, "Why does my lord weep?" He answered, "Because I know the evil that you will do to the people of Israel. You will set on fire their fortresses, and you will kill their young men with the sword and dash in pieces their little ones and rip open their pregnant women." Isaiah 13:16 (ESV) Their infants will be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered and their wives ravished. Hosea 13:16 (ESV) Samaria shall bear her guilt, because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword; their little ones shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open. Nahum 3:10 (ESV) Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity; her infants were dashed in pieces at the head of every street; for her honored men lots were cast, and all her great men were bound in chains. |
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2 | Baby Smashing? | Ps 137:9 | Just Read Mark | 111203 | ||
Massacre of the Innocents In terms of Biblical portrayals of killing babies, I think, also, of the "massacre of the innocents," at the beginning of Matthew's gospel (2:16-18). This answers Jeremiah's prophecy, (Jer 31:15.) This violent world, that we still recognize, is the world Christ was born to redeem. *** So, kalos --- how do we link these scripture verses to interpret Psalm 137? |
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