Siege

• 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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