SIEGE
An offer of peace must be made to the city before beginning a DEU 20:10-12
Conducted by erecting embankments parallel to the walls of the besieged city DEU 20:19,20; ISA 29:3; 37:33
Battering-rams used in
See BATTERING-RAMS
Distress of the inhabitants during a 2KI 6:24-29; 25:3; ISA 9:20; 36:12; JER 19:9
Cannibalism during a 2KI 6:28,29
INSTANCES OF
Jericho JOS 6
Rabbah 2SA 11:1
Abel 2SA 20:15
Gibbethon 1KI 15:27
Tirzah 1KI 16:17
Jerusalem
By the sons of Judah JDG 1:8
By David 2SA 5:6,9
By Rezin, king of Syria, and Pekah, son of Remaliah, king of Israel 2KI 16:5
By Nebuchadnezzar 2KI 24:10,11; DAN 1:1; 2KI 25:1-3; JER 52
By Sennacherib 2CH 32:1-23
Samaria 1KI 20:1; 2KI 6:24; 17:5; 18:9-11
