Sieges

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Being against round about

Jeremiah 51:2

Built forts and mounts

Ezekiel 4:2 Ezekiel 26:8

Called upon the city to surrender

1 Kings 20:2 1 Kings 20:3 2 Kings 18:18 2 Kings 18:20

Cast arrows and other missiles into the city

2 Kings 19:32

Cities of Israel in Galilee

2 Kings 15:29

Cities of Judah

2 Kings 18:13

Compassing about with armies

2 Kings 6:14 Luke 21:20

Cut off all supplies

2 Kings 19:24

Debir

Joshua 10:38 Joshua 10:39

Dug a trench round the city

Luke 19:43

Eglon

Joshua 10:34 Joshua 10:35

Employed battering rams against the walls

Ezekiel 4:2 Ezekiel 26:9

Encamping against

2 Chronicles 32:1 2 Samuel 12:28

Extreme difficulty of taking cities by, alluded to

Proverbs 18:19

Fenced cities invested by

2 Kings 18:13

Frequently broken down

Judges 9:45

Frequently destroyed by fire

Joshua 8:19

Frequently helped by allies

1 Samuel 11:11 1 Samuel 23:5

Frequently laid ambushes

Judges 9:34

Frequently taken by ambush

Judges 9:43 Judges 9:44

Frequently taken by assault

2 Samuel 12:29 Joshua 10:35

Gibbethon

1 Kings 16:15

Given up to pillage

Jeremiah 50:26 Jeremiah 50:27

Great noise and tumult of, alluded to

Joel 2:5

Hebron

Joshua 10:36 Joshua 10:37

Inhabitants of, exhorted to be courageous

2 Chronicles 32:6 2 Chronicles 32:7 2 Chronicles 32:8

Inhabitants of, often put to the sword

Jeremiah 50:30 Joshua 10:28 Joshua 10:30 Joshua 10:32 Joshua 10:35

Invested the city on every side

Ezekiel 23:24

Jabesh-gilead

1 Samuel 11:1

Jericho

Joshua 6:2 Joshua 6:3 Joshua 6:4 Joshua 6:5 Joshua 6:6 Joshua 6:7 Joshua 6:8 Joshua 6:9 Joshua 6:10 Joshua 6:11 Joshua 6:12 Joshua 6:13 Joshua 6:14 Joshua 6:15 Joshua 6:16 Joshua 6:17 Joshua 6:18 Joshua 6:19 Joshua 6:20

Jerusalem

2 Kings 24:10 2 Kings 24:11 2 Kings 25:1 2 Kings 25:2

Keilah

1 Samuel 23:1

Lachish

Joshua 10:31 Joshua 10:32

Libnah

Joshua 10:29 Joshua 10:30

Makkedah

Joshua 10:28

Often demanded terms of peace

1 Samuel 11:1 1 Samuel 11:2 1 Samuel 11:3

Often lasted for a long time

2 Kings 17:5

Often suffered from famine

2 Kings 6:26 2 Kings 6:27 2 Kings 6:28 2 Kings 6:29 2 Kings 25:3 Ezekiel 6:12

Often suffered from pestilence

Jeremiah 21:6 Jeremiah 32:24

Often suffered much during

Ezekiel 29:18

Pitching against

2 Kings 25:1

Rabbah

2 Samuel 11:1 2 Samuel 12:26 2 Samuel 12:27 2 Samuel 12:28 2 Samuel 12:29

Ramoth-gilead

1 Kings 22:4 1 Kings 22:29

Repaired and newly fortified beforehand

2 Chronicles 32:5 Isaiah 22:9 Isaiah 22:10 Nahum 3:14

Samaria

1 Kings 20:1 2 Kings 6:24 2 Kings 17:5

Setting in array against

Jeremiah 50:9

Shechem

Judges 9:34 Judges 9:45

Sometimes called after the name of the captor

2 Samuel 12:28

Sometimes sown with salt

Judges 9:45

Sometimes used ambushes or sorties

Jeremiah 51:12

Supplied with water beforehand

Nahum 3:14

The inhabitants of, cut off beforehand supplies of water outside, useful to besiegers

2 Chronicles 32:3 2 Chronicles 32:4

The Jews forbidden to cut down fruit trees for the purpose of

Deuteronomy 20:19 Deuteronomy 20:20

The judgments of God

Micah 5:1

The omnipresence of God

Psalms 139:5

Thebez

Judges 9:50

Threatened as a punishment

Deuteronomy 28:52

Tirzah

1 Kings 16:17

Walls of, defended by the inhabitants

2 Chronicles 32:18 2 Kings 18:26 2 Samuel 11:20 2 Samuel 11:21

Were strictly shut up

Joshua 6:1

Ziklag

1 Samuel 30:1 1 Samuel 30:2

Zion in her affliction

Isaiah 1:8

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