0 Does God allow pregnant women to be ripped apart?

Does God allow pregnant women to be ripped apart?


Yes

Sometimes pregnant woment are ripped up to punish those who rebel against him.

Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up. Hosea 13:16

And sometimes the Bible just reports these incidents without comment.

Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they opened not to him, therefore he smote it; and all the women therein that were with child he ripped up. 2 Kings 15:16

No

God punished the Ammonites for ripping up the pregnant women of Gilead.

Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border. Amos 1:3

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