Bible Concordances
Sieges
Torrey's Topical Textbook
- Fenced cities invested by
2 Kings 18:13
- Threatened as a punishment
Deuteronomy 28:52
- DESCRIBED AS
- Encamping against
2 Samuel 12:28; 2 Chronicles 32:1
- Pitching against
2 Kings 25:1
- Compassing about with armies
2 Kings 6:14; Luke 21:20
- Setting in array against
Jeremiah 50:9
- Being against round about
Jeremiah 51:2
- Often lasted for a long time
2 Kings 17:5
- Great noise and tumult of, alluded to
Joel 2:5
- THOSE ENGAGED IN
- Built forts and mounts
Ezekiel 4:2; 26:8
- Dug a trench round the city
Luke 19:43
- Invested the city on every side
Ezekiel 23:24
- Cut off all supplies
2 Kings 19:24
- Frequently laid ambushes
Judges 9:34
- Called upon the city to surrender
1 Kings 20:2,3; 2 Kings 18:18,20
- Employed battering rams against the walls
Ezekiel 4:2; 26:9
- Cast arrows and other missiles into the city
2 Kings 19:32
- Often suffered much during
Ezekiel 29:18
- The Jews forbidden to cut down fruit trees for the purpose of
Deuteronomy 20:19,20
- Extreme difficulty of taking cities by, alluded to
Proverbs 18:19
- CITIES INVESTED BY
- Repaired and newly fortified beforehand
2 Chronicles 32:5; Isaiah 22:9,10; Nahum 3:14
- Supplied with water beforehand
Nahum 3:14
- The inhabitants of, cut off beforehand supplies of water Outside, useful to besiegers
2 Chronicles 32:3,4
- Were strictly shut up
Joshua 6:1
- Walls of, defended by the inhabitants
2 Samuel 11:20,21; 2 Kings 18:26; 2 Chronicles 32:18
- Sometimes used ambushes or sorties
Jeremiah 51:12
- Often suffered from famine
2 Kings 6:26-29; 25:3; Ezekiel 6:12
- Often suffered from pestilence
Jeremiah 21:6; 32:24
- Often demanded terms of peace
1 Samuel 11:1-3
- Frequently taken by ambush
Judges 9:43,44
- Frequently taken by assault
Joshua 10:35; 2 Samuel 12:29
- Frequently helped by allies
1 Samuel 11:11; 23:5
- Inhabitants of, exhorted to be courageous
2 Chronicles 32:6-8
- CITIES TAKEN BY
- Given up to pillage
Jeremiah 50:26,27
- Inhabitants of, often put to the sword
Joshua 10:28,30,32,35; Jeremiah 50:30
- Frequently broken down
Judges 9:45
- Frequently destroyed by fire
Joshua 8:19
- Sometimes sown with salt
Judges 9:45
- Sometimes called after the name of the captor
2 Samuel 12:28
- MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE
- Jabesh-gilead
1 Samuel 11:1
- Rabbah
2 Samuel 11:1; 12:26-29
- Samaria
1 Kings 20:1; 2 Kings 6:24; 17:5
- Ramoth-gilead
1 Kings 22:4,29
- Cities of Israel in Galilee
2 Kings 15:29
- Cities of Judah
2 Kings 18:13
- Jerusalem
2 Kings 24:10,11; 25:1,2
- Illustrative Of
- The omnipresence of God
Psalm 139:5
- The judgments of God
Micah 5:1
- Zion in her affliction
Isaiah 1:8
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Bibliography Information
Torrey, Reuben Archer. Entry for 'Sieges'. Torrey's Topical Textbook. https://www.studylight.org/​concordances/​eng/​ttt/​s/sieges.html. 1897.