Bible Dictionary: Gates of Cities: Battering Rams Used Against

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Ezekiel 21:22
At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount, and to build a fort.
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The Wars of the Jews or History of the Destruction of Jerusalem
... John Laid Against Him And Recovers Certain Cities Which Had ... The Banks Were Completed
And The Battering Rams Brought, And ... Orders To Set Fire To The Gates Of The ...
/.../josephus/the wars of the jews or history of the destruction of jerusalem/

The Old Testament and Archeology
... their environs, without number, [and] by the battering of rams ... and] whosoever came
out of the gates of the ... His cities, which I had plundered, I separated from ...
/.../the christian view of the old testament/chapter iv the old testament.htm

The Assyrian Revival and the Struggle for Syria
... The stronghold of Larbusa fell before the battering-ram, to be followed ... their houses
burned, and prisoners were impaled outside the gates of their cities. ...
/.../chapter ithe assyrian revival and.htm

Justinian.
... from which fifty men to each should direct battering-rams. ... The state in which several
gates remain to this day ... battle over the grave of sunken cities, in view ...
/.../allies/the formation of christendom volume vi/chapter iv justinian.htm

Of Antichrist, and his Ruin: and of the Slaying the Witnesses.
... large: He gave silver, gold, bullocks, rams, lambs; with ... saints; and there another,
that did used to set ... a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/of antichrist and his ruin .htm

The Last Days of the Old Eastern World
... secure for him the opening of the gates of Athens ... and had received the homage of
the cities of Thessaly ... to hamper each other's movements, and their rams of brass ...
/.../chapter iithe last days of 2.htm

The First Theban Empire
... and no representation of the hand-worked battering-ram has ... a stronghold by breaking
down its gates with their ... But the ancient royal cities of Kheops and his ...
/.../chapter iiithe first theban empire.htm

The Medes and the Second Chaldaean Empire
... much the same terms as I have used above, and ... the northeast, and several lines of
walled cities"among which ... two small forts placed close to the main gates. ...
/.../chapter iiithe medes and the.htm

Memoir of John Bunyan
... but some of them betrayed one of the gates; the women ... re-publishing the Book of Sports,
to be used on Sundays ... a shout and the tiny blast of rams'-horns (Joshua 6 ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/memoir of john bunyan.htm