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Sieges

12 links · from Joshua 6:1

1. Joshua 6:1

   Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in.

2. 2 Samuel 5:6

   And the king and his men went to Jerusalem unto the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land: which spake unto David, saying, Except thou take away the blind and the lame, thou shalt not come in hither: thinking, David cannot come in hither.

3. 2 Samuel 20:15

   And they came and besieged him in Abel of Bethmaachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.

4. 1 Kings 15:27

   And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon.

5. 1 Kings 16:17

   And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.

6. 1 Kings 20:1

   And Benhadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together: and there were thirty and two kings with him, and horses, and chariots: and he went up and besieged Samaria, and warred against it.

7. 2 Kings 6:24

   And it came to pass after this, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria.

8. 2 Kings 17:5

   Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.

9. 2 Kings 24:10

   At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.

10. 2 Kings 25:1

    And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about.

11. 2 Chronicles 32:10

    Thus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria, Whereon do ye trust, that ye abide in the siege in Jerusalem?

12. Jeremiah 39:1

    In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and they besieged it.

From Thompson’s Chain-Reference Bible (1908), by Frank Charles Thompson.