12 At this Hazʹa·el said: “Why is my lord weeping?” To this he said: “Because I well know what injury+ you will do to the sons of Israel. Their fortified places you will consign to the fire, and their choice men you will kill with the sword, and their children you will dash to pieces,+ and their pregnant women you will rip up.”+

13 “This is what Jehovah has said, ‘“On account of three revolts of the sons of Amʹmon,*+ and on account of four, I shall not turn it back,+ on account of their slitting open the pregnant women of Gilʹe·ad, for the purpose of widening out their own territory.+