¹² Then Hazael said, “Why does my lord weep?” Then he said, “Because ^(A)I know the evil that you will do to the sons of Israel: their fortifications you will set on fire, and their young men you will kill with the sword, and their infants you ^(B)will dash in pieces, and their pregnant women you will rip up.”

^17 (A)Therefore He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans who killed their choice men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on choice man or virgin, old man or infirm; He gave them all into his hand.