SIEGE

Passages on this topic · 58

• Deuteronomy 20:10

  When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it.

• Deuteronomy 20:11

  It shall be, if it makes you answer of peace, and opens to you, then it shall be, that all the people who are found therein shall become forced laborers to you, and shall serve you.

• Deuteronomy 20:12

  If it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it.

• Deuteronomy 20:19

  When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an ax against them; for you may eat of them. You shall not cut them down; for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged by you?

• Deuteronomy 20:20

  Only the trees that you know are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down. You shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it falls.

• Judges 1:8

  The children of Judah fought against Jerusalem, took it, struck it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.

• 2 Samuel 5:6

  The king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who spoke to David, saying, “The blind and the lame will keep you out of here”; thinking, “David can’t come in here.”

• 2 Samuel 5:9

  David lived in the stronghold, and called it David’s city. David built around from Millo and inward.

• 2 Samuel 11:1

  At the return of the year, at the time when kings go out, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem.

• 2 Samuel 20:15

  They came and besieged him in Abel of Beth Maacah, and they cast up a mound against the city, and it stood against the rampart; and all the people who were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.

• 1 Kings 15:27

  Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha struck him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel were besieging Gibbethon.

• 1 Kings 16:17

  Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.

• 1 Kings 20:1

  Ben Hadad the king of Syria gathered all his army together; and there were thirty-two kings with him, with horses and chariots. He went up and besieged Samaria, and fought against it.

• 2 Kings 6:24

  After this, Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his army, and went up and besieged Samaria.

• 2 Kings 6:25

  There was a great famine in Samaria. Behold, they besieged it, until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove’s dung for five pieces of silver.

• 2 Kings 6:26

  As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, saying, “Help, my lord, O king!”

• 2 Kings 6:27

  He said, “If Yahweh doesn’t help you, where could I get help for you? From of the threshing floor, or from the wine press?”

• 2 Kings 6:28

  The king said to her, “What is your problem?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’

• 2 Kings 6:29

  So we boiled my son, and ate him: and I said to her on the next day, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him;’ and she has hidden her son.”

• 2 Kings 16:5

  Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to wage war. They besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him.

• 2 Kings 17:5

  Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.

• 2 Kings 18:9

  In the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.

• 2 Kings 18:10

  At the end of three years they took it. In the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.

• 2 Kings 18:11

  The king of Assyria carried Israel away to Assyria, and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,

• 2 Kings 24:10

  At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.

• 2 Kings 24:11

  Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it,

• 2 Kings 25:1

  In the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it around it.

• 2 Kings 25:2

  So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

• 2 Kings 25:3

  On the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

• 2 Chronicles 32:1

  After these things and this faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, entered into Judah, and encamped against the fortified cities, and intended to win them for himself.

• 2 Chronicles 32:2

  When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come, and that he was planning to fight against Jerusalem,

• 2 Chronicles 32:3

  he took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the springs which were outside of the city, and they helped him.

• 2 Chronicles 32:4

  So, many people gathered together and they stopped all the springs and the brook that flowed through the middle of the land, saying, “Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find abundant water?”

• 2 Chronicles 32:5

  He took courage, built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised it up to the towers, with the other wall outside, and strengthened Millo in David’s city, and made weapons and shields in abundance.

• 2 Chronicles 32:6

  He set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the wide place at the gate of the city, and spoke encouragingly to them, saying,

• 2 Chronicles 32:7

  “Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or dismayed because of the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude who is with him; for there is a greater one with us than with him.

• 2 Chronicles 32:8

  An arm of flesh is with him, but Yahweh our God is with us to help us and to fight our battles.” The people rested themselves on the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

• 2 Chronicles 32:9

  After this, Sennacherib king of Assyria sent his servants to Jerusalem, (now he was before Lachish, and all his power with him), to Hezekiah king of Judah, and to all Judah who were at Jerusalem, saying,

• 2 Chronicles 32:10

  Thus says Sennacherib king of Assyria, “In whom do you trust, that you remain under siege in Jerusalem?

• 2 Chronicles 32:11

  Doesn’t Hezekiah persuade you, to give you over to die by famine and by thirst, saying, ‘Yahweh our God will deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?’

• 2 Chronicles 32:12

  Hasn’t the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, ‘You shall worship before one altar, and you shall burn incense on it?’

• 2 Chronicles 32:13

  Don’t you know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of the lands? Were the gods of the nations of the lands in any way able to deliver their land out of my hand?

• 2 Chronicles 32:14

  Who was there among all the gods of those nations which my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of my hand?

• 2 Chronicles 32:15

  Now therefore don’t let Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you in this way. Don’t believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you out of my hand?”

• 2 Chronicles 32:16

  His servants spoke yet more against Yahweh God, and against his servant Hezekiah.

• 2 Chronicles 32:17

  He also wrote letters insulting Yahweh, the God of Israel, and speaking against him, saying, “As the gods of the nations of the lands, which have not delivered their people out of my hand, so shall the God of Hezekiah not deliver his people out of my hand.”

• 2 Chronicles 32:18

  They called out with a loud voice in the Jews’ language to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city.

• 2 Chronicles 32:19

  They spoke of the God of Jerusalem as of the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of men’s hands.

• 2 Chronicles 32:20

  Hezekiah the king and Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz, prayed because of this, and cried to heaven.

• 2 Chronicles 32:21

  Yahweh sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty men of valor, and the leaders and captains, in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. When he had come into the house of his god, those who came out of his own bowels killed him there with the sword.

• 2 Chronicles 32:22

  Thus Yahweh saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria and from the hand of all others, and guided them on every side.

• 2 Chronicles 32:23

  Many brought gifts to Yahweh to Jerusalem, and precious things to Hezekiah king of Judah; so that he was exalted in the sight of all nations from then on.

• Isaiah 9:20

  One will devour on the right hand, and be hungry; and he will eat on the left hand, and they will not be satisfied. Everyone will eat the flesh of his own arm:

• Isaiah 29:3

  I will encamp against you all around you, and will lay siege against you with posted troops. I will raise siege works against you.

• Isaiah 36:12

  But Rabshakeh said, “Has my master sent me only to your master and to you, to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, who will eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?”

• Isaiah 37:33

  Therefore Yahweh says concerning the king of Assyria, ‘He will not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither will he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.

• Jeremiah 19:9

  I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat everyone the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies, and those who seek their life, shall distress them.”’

• Daniel 1:1

  In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Jerusalem, and besieged it.