cast up a bank The besiegers erected a mound of earth against the city wall to enable them to batter the upper and weaker part of it. This stood in "the trench" or outwork of the city: a term which includes the low outer wall and the space between it and the main wall. For mention of siege mounds see 2 Kings 19:32; Isaiah 29:3; Jeremiah 6:6; Jeremiah 32:24; Jeremiah 33:4; Ezekiel 4:2; Ezekiel 17:17; Ezekiel 21:22; Ezekiel 26:8; Daniel 11:15. They are represented on the bas-reliefs depicting the siege of Lachish which were found at Kouyunjik. Layard's Monuments of Nineveh, Vol. II. PI. 18, 21.

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