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
  • Jericho
    Joshua 6:2-20
  • Ai
    Joshua 7:2-4; 8:1-19
  • Makkedah
    Joshua 10:28
  • Libnah
    Joshua 10:29,30
  • Lachish
    Joshua 10:31,32
  • Eglon
    Joshua 10:34,35
  • Hebron
    Joshua 10:36,37
  • Debir
    Joshua 10:38,39
  • Shechem
    Judges 9:34,45
  • Thebez
    Judges 9:50
  • Jabesh-gilead
    1 Samuel 11:1
  • Keilah
    1 Samuel 23:1
  • Ziklag
    1 Samuel 30:1,2
  • Rabbah
    2 Samuel 11:1; 12:26-29
  • Gibbethon
    1 Kings 16:15
  • Tirzah
    1 Kings 16:17
  • 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