Siege Offer of peace must be made to the city before beginning
Deuteronomy 20:12
Conducted by erecting embankments parallel to the walls of the besieged city
Deuteronomy 20:20; Isaiah 29:3; Isaiah 37:33
Battering rams used in
Battering-Ram
Distress of the inhabitants during
2 Kings 6:29; 2 Kings 25:3; Isaiah 9:20; Isaiah 36:12; Jeremiah 19:9
Cannibalism in
2 Kings 6:29
Instances of siege:
- Of Jericho
Joshua 6
- Of Rabbah
2 Samuel 11:1
- Of Abel
2 Samuel 20:15
- Of Gibbethon
1 Kings 15:27
- Of Tirzah
1 Kings 16:17
- Of Jerusalem:
b by the children of Judah
Judges 1:8
b by David
2 Samuel 5:6; 2 Samuel 5:9
b by Rezin, king of Syria, and Pekah, son of Remaliah, king of Israel
2 Kings 16:5
b by Nebuchadnezzar
2 Kings 24:11; Daniel 1:1; 2 Kings 25:3; Jeremiah 52
b by Sennacherib
2 Chronicles 32:23
- Of Samaria
1 Kings 20:1; 2 Kings 6:24; 2 Kings 17:5; 2 Kings 18:11