→ 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