Sieges

Fenced cities invested by 2 Kings 18:13
Threatened as a punishment Deuteronomy 28:52
DESCRIBED AS
- Encamping against 2 Samuel 12:28; 2 Chronicles 32:1
- Pitching against 2 Kings 25:1
- Compassing about with armies 2 Kings 6:14; Luke 21:20
- Setting in array against Jeremiah 50:9
- Being against round about Jeremiah 51:2
Often lasted for a long time 2 Kings 17:5
Great noise and tumult of, alluded to Joel 2:5
THOSE ENGAGED IN
- Built forts and mounts Ezekiel 4:2; 26:8
- Dug a trench round the city Luke 19:43
- Invested the city on every side Ezekiel 23:24
- Cut off all supplies 2 Kings 19:24
- Frequently laid ambushes Judges 9:34
- Called upon the city to surrender 1 Kings 20:2,3; 2 Kings 18:18,20
- Employed battering rams against the walls Ezekiel 4:2; 26:9
- Cast arrows and other missiles into the city 2 Kings 19:32
- Often suffered much during Ezekiel 29:18
The Jews forbidden to cut down fruit trees for the purpose of Deuteronomy 20:19,20
Extreme difficulty of taking cities by, alluded to Proverbs 18:19
CITIES INVESTED BY
- Repaired and newly fortified beforehand 2 Chronicles 32:5; Isaiah 22:9,10; Nahum 3:14
- Supplied with water beforehand Nahum 3:14
- The inhabitants of, cut off beforehand supplies of water Outside, useful to besiegers 2 Chronicles 32:3,4
- Were strictly shut up Joshua 6:1
- Walls of, defended by the inhabitants 2 Samuel 11:20,21; 2 Kings 18:26; 2 Chronicles 32:18
- Sometimes used ambushes or sorties Jeremiah 51:12
- Often suffered from famine 2 Kings 6:26-29; 25:3; Ezekiel 6:12
- Often suffered from pestilence Jeremiah 21:6; 32:24
- Often demanded terms of peace 1 Samuel 11:1-3
- Frequently taken by ambush Judges 9:43,44
- Frequently taken by assault Joshua 10:35; 2 Samuel 12:29
- Frequently helped by allies 1 Samuel 11:11; 23:5
- Inhabitants of, exhorted to be courageous 2 Chronicles 32:6-8
CITIES TAKEN BY
- Given up to pillage Jeremiah 50:26,27
- Inhabitants of, often put to the sword Joshua 10:28,30,32,35; Jeremiah 50:30
- Frequently broken down Judges 9:45
- Frequently destroyed by fire Joshua 8:19
- Sometimes sown with salt Judges 9:45
- Sometimes called after the name of the captor 2 Samuel 12:28
MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE
- Jericho Joshua 6:2-20
- Ai Joshua 7:2-4; 8:1-19
- Makkedah Joshua 10:28
- Libnah Joshua 10:29,30
- Lachish Joshua 10:31,32
- Eglon Joshua 10:34,35
- Hebron Joshua 10:36,37
- Debir Joshua 10:38,39
- Shechem Judges 9:34,45
- Thebez Judges 9:50
- Jabesh-gilead 1 Samuel 11:1
- Keilah 1 Samuel 23:1
- Ziklag 1 Samuel 30:1,2
- Rabbah 2 Samuel 11:1; 12:26-29
- Gibbethon 1 Kings 16:15
- Tirzah 1 Kings 16:17
- Samaria 1 Kings 20:1; 2 Kings 6:24; 17:5
- Ramoth-gilead 1 Kings 22:4,29
- Cities of Israel in Galilee 2 Kings 15:29
- Cities of Judah 2 Kings 18:13
- Jerusalem 2 Kings 24:10,11; 25:1,2
Illustrative Of
- The omnipresence of God Psalm 139:5
- The judgments of God Micah 5:1
- Zion in her affliction Isaiah 1:8

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