Then 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.
Ver. 16. He smote it, and all the women he ripped up.] Opening their wombs crudelitate immani et barbara, because their husbands opened not the gates of their city unto him. a This abhorred cruelty Josephus mentioneth not; as being ashamed that other nations should be acquainted with it. The like was done, Hos 13:16 Amo 1:13 and at the Sicilian vespers, by those pseudo-Catholics.
a Here Manes showed himself to be Epimanes.