Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
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Gill's Exposition
Happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones. That takes the infants from their mothers' breasts, or out of their arms, and dashes out their brains against a "rock", as…
Barnes' Notes
Happy shall he be that taketh ... - Margin, as in Hebrew, rock. This refers to what was not uncommon in ancient warfare, as it is now among savage tribes - the indiscriminate slaughter of those of all…
The pious Jews in Babylon, having afflicted themselves with the thoughts of the ruins of Jerusalem, here please themselves with the prospect of the ruin of her impenitent implacable enemies; but this…
Cambridge Bible
The barbarous customs of Oriental warfare spared neither women nor children in a war of extermination. Cp. Isa 13:16; Hos 10:14; Hos 13:16; Nah 3:10; 2Ki 8:12; Hom. Il.xxii. 63. The stern law of…
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