Siege
19 references
- An offer of peace must be made to the city before beginning a Deut. 20:10-12
- Conducted by erecting embankments parallel to the walls of the besieged city Deut. 20:19,20; Isa. 29:3; 37:33
- Battering-rams used in
- See BATTERING-RAMS
- Distress of the inhabitants during a 2 Kgs. 6:24-29; 25:3; Isa. 9:20; 36:12; Jer. 19:9
- Cannibalism during a 2 Kgs. 6:28,29
- INSTANCES OF
- Jericho JOS 6
- Rabbah 2 Sam. 11:1
- Abel 2 Sam. 20:15
- Gibbethon 1 Kgs. 15:27
- Tirzah 1 Kgs. 16:17
- Jerusalem
- By the sons of Judah Judg. 1:8
- By David 2 Sam. 5:6,9
- By Rezin, king of Syria, and Pekah, son of Remaliah, king of Israel 2 Kgs. 16:5
- By Nebuchadnezzar 2 Kgs. 24:10,11; Dan. 1:1; 2 Kgs. 25:1-3; Jer. 52
- By Sennacherib 2 Chr. 32:1-23
- Samaria 1 Kgs. 20:1; 2 Kgs. 6:24; 17:5; 18:9-11
From Nave's Topical Bible (1896). Public domain.