Their children also shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished—the horrible suffering of the innocent (children and women) alongside the guilty, with the warfare affecting all segments of the population. The graphic violence suggests the brutality of ancient Near Eastern warfare and the totality of judgment. This verse depicts the suffering that extends beyond the direct perpetrators of evil to their families.

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