Siege

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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

• Ezekiel 6:12 OT

  He who is far off will die of the pestilence. He who is near will fall by the sword. He who remains and is besieged will die by the famine. Thus I will accomplish my wrath on them.

• Jeremiah 21:6 OT

  I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both man and animal. They will die of a great pestilence.

• Jeremiah 32:24 OT

  “Behold, siege ramps have come to the city to take it. The city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans who fight against it, because of the sword, of the famine, and of the pestilence. What you have spoken has happened. Behold, you see it.

• 1 Samuel 11:1-3 OT

  Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabesh Gilead: and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, “Make a covenant with us, and we will serve you.” Nahash the Ammonite said to them, “On this condition I will make it with you,…

• Judges 9:43 OT

  He took the people and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field; and he looked, and behold, the people came out of the city. So, he rose up against them and struck them.

• Judges 9:44 OT

  Abimelech and the companies that were with him rushed forward and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city; and the two companies rushed on all who were in the field and struck them.

• Joshua 10:35 OT

  They took it on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword. He utterly destroyed all the souls who were in it that day, according to all that he had done to Lachish.

• 2 Samuel 12:29 OT

  David gathered all the people together, and went to Rabbah, and fought against it, and took it.

• 1 Samuel 11:11 OT

  On the next day, Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the middle of the camp in the morning watch, and struck the Ammonites until the heat of the day. Those who remained were scattered, so that no two of them were…

• 1 Samuel 23:5 OT

  David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their livestock, and killed them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.

• 2 Chronicles 32:6-8 OT

  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, “Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or dismayed because of the king of…

• Jeremiah 50:26 OT

  Come against her from the farthest border. Open her storehouses. Cast her up as heaps. Destroy her utterly. Let nothing of her be left.

• Jeremiah 50:27 OT

  Kill all her bulls. Let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them! For their day has come, the time of their visitation.

• Joshua 10:28 OT

  Joshua took Makkedah on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, with its king. He utterly destroyed it and all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining. He did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of…

• Joshua 10:30 OT

  Yahweh delivered it also, with its king, into the hand of Israel. He struck it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining in it. He did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.

• Joshua 10:32 OT

  Yahweh delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel. He took it on the second day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, with all the souls who were in it, according to all that he had done to Libnah.

• Jeremiah 50:30 OT

  Therefore her young men will fall in her streets. All her men of war will be brought to silence in that day,” says Yahweh.

• Judges 9:45 OT

  Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city and killed the people in it. He beat down the city and sowed it with salt.

• Joshua 8:19 OT

  The ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand and entered into the city and took it. They hurried and set the city on fire.

• Joshua 6:2-20 OT

  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 shall march around the city, going around the city once. You shall do this six days. Seven priests shall…

• Joshua 7:2-4 OT

  Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth Aven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying, “Go up and spy out the land.” The men went up and spied out Ai. They returned to Joshua, and said to him, “Don’t let all…

• Joshua 8:1-19 OT

  Yahweh said to Joshua, “Don’t be afraid, and don’t be dismayed. Take all the warriors with you, and arise, go up to Ai. Behold, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, with his people, his city, and his land. You shall do to Ai and her…

• Joshua 10:29 OT

  Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, to Libnah, and fought against Libnah.

• Joshua 10:31 OT

  Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, to Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it.