Deuteronomy 28:52

The curse of siege: enemies will hem Israel in behind the very walls they trusted until those defenses fall. It warns that no human fortification can save a people who abandon the Lord.

Cross-references · 21

• Matt 24:15–16So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination of desolation,’ described by the prophet Daniel (let the reader understand),
• 2 Kgs 17:1–6In the twelfth year of the reign of Ahaz over Judah, Hoshea son of Elah became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria nine years.
• Luke 19:43–44For the days will come upon you when your enemies will barricade you and surround you and hem you in on every side.
• 2 Kgs 18:13In the fourteenth year of Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked and captured all the fortified cities of Judah.
• Dan 9:26Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. Then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations have been decreed.
• Jer 37:8Then the Chaldeans will return and fight against this city. They will capture it and burn it down.
• Zech 12:2“Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples. Judah will be besieged, as well as Jerusalem.
• Jer 21:4–7this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will turn against you the weapons of war in your hands, with which you are fighting the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the wall, and I will assemble their forces in the center of this city.
• Isa 1:7Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you—a desolation demolished by strangers.
• 2 Kgs 24:10–11At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched up to Jerusalem, and the city came under siege.
• Isa 62:8The LORD has sworn by His right hand and by His mighty arm: “Never again will I give your grain to your enemies for food, nor will foreigners drink the new wine for which you have toiled.
• Zeph 1:15–16That day will be a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of destruction and desolation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,
• Matt 22:7The king was enraged, and he sent his troops to destroy those murderers and burn their city.
• Ezek 4:1–8“Now you, son of man, take a brick, place it before you, and draw on it the city of Jerusalem.
• Zech 14:2For I will gather all the nations for battle against Jerusalem, and the city will be captured, the houses looted, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be removed from the city.
• 2 Kgs 25:1–4So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army. They encamped outside the city and built a siege wall all around it.
• Jer 10:18For this is what the LORD says: “Behold, at this time I will sling out the inhabitants of the land and bring distress upon them so that they may be captured.”
• Jer 52:4–7So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army. They encamped outside the city and built a siege wall all around it.
• Jer 39:1–3In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army and laid siege to the city.
• Lev 26:25And I will bring a sword against you to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
• Luke 21:20–24But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, you will know that her desolation is near.

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