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Sieges

Fenced cities invested by - 2Ki 18:13

Threatened as a punishment - De 28:52

DESCRIBED AS

• Encamping against
- 2Sa 12:28; 2Ch 32:1
• Pitching against
- 2Ki 25:1
• Compassing about with armies
- 2Ki 6:14; Lu 21:20
• Setting in array against
- Jer 50:9
• Being against round about
- Jer 51:2

Often lasted for a long time - 2Ki 17:5

Great noise and tumult of, alluded to - Joe 2:5

THOSE ENGAGED IN

• Built forts and mounts
- Eze 4:2; 26:8
• Dug a trench round the city
- Lu 19:43
• Invested the city on every side
- Eze 23:24
• Cut off all supplies
- 2Ki 19:24
• Frequently laid ambushes
- Jud 9:34
• Called upon the city to surrender
- 1Ki 20:2,3; 2Ki 18:18,20
• Employed battering rams against the walls
- Eze 4:2; 26:9
• Cast arrows and other missiles into the city
- 2Ki 19:32
• Often suffered much during
- Eze 29:18

The Jews forbidden to cut down fruit trees for the purpose of - De 20:19,20

Extreme difficulty of taking cities by, alluded to - Pr 18:19

CITIES INVESTED BY

• Repaired and newly fortified beforehand
- 2Ch 32:5; Isa 22:9,10; Na 3:14
• Supplied with water beforehand
- Na 3:14
• The inhabitants of, cut off beforehand supplies of water
outside, useful to besiegers - 2Ch 32:3,4
• Were strictly shut up
- Jos 6:1
• Walls of, defended by the inhabitants
- 2Sa 11:20,21; 2Ki 18:26; 2Ch 32:18
• Sometimes used ambushes or sorties
- Jer 51:12
• Often suffered from famine
- 2Ki 6:26-29; 25:3; Eze 6:12
• Often suffered from pestilence
- Jer 21:6; 32:24
• Often demanded terms of peace
- 1Sa 11:1-3
• Frequently taken by ambush
- Jud 9:43,44
• Frequently taken by assault
- Jos 10:35; 2Sa 12:29
• Frequently helped by allies
- 1Sa 11:11; 23:5
• Inhabitants of, exhorted to be courageous
- 2Ch 32:6-8

CITIES TAKEN BY

• Given up to pillage
- Jer 50:26,27
• Inhabitants of, often put to the sword
- Jos 10:28,30,32,35; Jer 50:30
• Frequently broken down
- Jud 9:45
• Frequently destroyed by fire
- Jos 8:19
• Sometimes sown with salt
- Jud 9:45
• Sometimes called after the name of the captor
- 2Sa 12:28

MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE

• Jericho
- Jos 6:2-20
• Ai
- Jos 7:2-4; 8:1-19
• Makkedah
- Jos 10:28
• Libnah
- Jos 10:29,30
• Lachish
- Jos 10:31,32
• Eglon
- Jos 10:34,35
• Hebron
- Jos 10:36,37
• Debir
- Jos 10:38,39
• Shechem
- Jud 9:34,45
• Thebez
- Jud 9:50
• Jabesh-gilead
- 1Sa 11:1
• Keilah
- 1Sa 23:1
• Ziklag
- 1Sa 30:1,2
• Rabbah
- 2Sa 11:1; 12:26-29
• Gibbethon
- 1Ki 16:15
• Tirzah
- 1Ki 16:17
• Samaria
- 1Ki 20:1; 2Ki 6:24; 17:5
• Ramoth-gilead
- 1Ki 22:4,29
• Cities of Israel in Galilee
- 2Ki 15:29
• Cities of Judah
- 2Ki 18:13
• Jerusalem
- 2Ki 24:10,11; 25:1,2

Illustrative Of

• The omnipresence of God
- Ps 139:5
• The judgments of God
- Mic 5:1
• Zion in her affliction
- Isa 1:8
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