Siege

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Deuteronomy 20:10-12 OT

  When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it. It shall be, if it gives 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…

• Deuteronomy 20:19 OT

  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…

• Deuteronomy 20:20 OT

  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.

• Isaiah 29:3 OT

  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 37:33 OT

  “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.

• 2 Kings 6:24-29 OT

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

• 2 Kings 25:3 OT

  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.

• Isaiah 9:20 OT

  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 36:12 OT

  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?”

• Jeremiah 19:9 OT

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

• 2 Kings 6:28 OT

  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 OT

  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.”

• Joshua 6:1-27 OT

  Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the children of Israel. No one went out, and no one came in. Yahweh said to Joshua, “Behold, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and the mighty men of valor. All of your men of war…

• 2 Samuel 11:1 OT

  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 OT

  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 OT

  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 OT

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

• Judges 1:8 OT

  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 OT

  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 OT

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

• 2 Kings 16:5 OT

  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 24:10 OT

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

• 2 Kings 24:11 OT

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

• Daniel 1:1 OT

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