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SIEGE ;

An offer of peace must be made to the city before beginning a - De 20:10-12

Conducted by erecting embankments parallel to the walls of the besieged city - De 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
- Jud 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; Da 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
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