¹² And Hazael said, “Why is my lord weeping?” And he ^[a]answered, “Because ^(A)I know the evil that you will do to the sons of Israel: you will set their fortified cities on fire, you will kill their young men with the sword, their little ones you ^(B)will smash to pieces, and you will rip up their pregnant women.”

^17 (A)So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or frail; He handed them all over to him.