Innocent Women and Their Fetuses in Gilead

Amos 1:13. Thus says the LORD*, For three transgressions of the children of Ammon and for four, I shall not turn away its punishment because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead so they could enlarge their border, 14. but I shall kindle a fire in the wall of Rabah and it will devour its palaces, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind. 15. And their king will go into captivity, he and his princes together, says the LORD*.

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This article is one of 839 in the four-volume One New Man Bible Companion by Rev. William J. Morford: commentary, word studies, myths corrected, Jewish roots, and maps.