Skip to content- An offer of peace must be made to the city before beginning aDeu 20:10–12
- Conducted by erecting embankments parallel to the walls of the besieged cityDeu 20:19Deu 20:20Isa 29:3Isa 37:33
- Battering-rams used in
- Distress of the inhabitants during a2Ki 6:24–292Ki 25:3Isa 9:20Isa 36:12Jer 19:9
- Cannibalism during a2Ki 6:282Ki 6:29
- INSTANCES OF
- JerichoJos 6
- Rabbah2Sa 11:1
- Abel2Sa 20:15
- Gibbethon1Ki 15:27
- Tirzah1Ki 16:17
- Jerusalem
- By the sons of JudahJdg 1:8
- By David2Sa 5:62Sa 5:9
- By Rezin, king of Syria, and Pekah, son of Remaliah, king of Israel2Ki 16:5
- By Nebuchadnezzar2Ki 24:102Ki 24:11Dan 1:12Ki 25:1–3Jer 52
- By Sennacherib2Ch 32:1–23
- Samaria1Ki 20:12Ki 6:242Ki 17:52Ki 18:9–11
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