Siege

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• 1 Kings 20:2 OT

  He sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel, into the city, and said to him, “Ben Hadad says,

• 1 Kings 20:3 OT

  ‘Your silver and your gold is mine. Your wives also and your children, even the best, are mine.’ ”

• 2 Kings 18:18 OT

  When they had called to the king, Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebnah the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder came out to them.

• 2 Kings 18:20 OT

  You say (but they are but vain words), ‘There is counsel and strength for war.’ Now on whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?

• Ezekiel 26:9 OT

  He will set his battering engines against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers.

• 2 Kings 19:32 OT

  “Therefore Yahweh says concerning the king of Assyria, ‘He will not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there. He will not come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.

• Ezekiel 29:18 OT

  “Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre. Every head was made bald, and every shoulder was worn; yet he had no wages, nor did his army, from Tyre, for the service that he had served…

• 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.

• Proverbs 18:19 OT

  A brother offended is more difficult than a fortified city. Disputes are like the bars of a fortress.

• 2 Chronicles 32:5 OT

  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.

• Isaiah 22:9 OT

  You saw the breaches of David’s city, that they were many; and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool.

• Isaiah 22:10 OT

  You counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall.

• Nahum 3:14 OT

  Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.

• 2 Chronicles 32:3 OT

  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 OT

  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?”

• Joshua 6:1 OT

  Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the children of Israel. No one went out, and no one came in.

• 2 Samuel 11:20 OT

  it shall be that, if the king’s wrath arise, and he asks you, ‘Why did you go so near to the city to fight? Didn’t you know that they would shoot from the wall?

• 2 Samuel 11:21 OT

  Who struck Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Didn’t a woman cast an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?’ then you shall say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.’ ”

• 2 Kings 18:26 OT

  Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, Shebnah, and Joah, said to Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in the Syrian language, for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Jews’ language, in the hearing of the people who are on the…

• 2 Chronicles 32:18 OT

  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.

• Jeremiah 51:12 OT

  Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon! Make the watch strong! Set the watchmen, and prepare the ambushes; for Yahweh has both purposed and done that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.

• 2 Kings 6:26-29 OT

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

• 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.