Sustained battle against fortified cities, preventing renewal of supplies; a common tactic in OT times. Samaria and Jerusalem both fell to sieges.

Deuteronomy 20:12,19-20

Sieges used by and against Israel

Judges 9:50
1 Samuel 11:1
2 Samuel 11:1; 20:15
1 Kings 20:1

Ben-Hadad II twice besieged Samaria, unsuccessfully

See also

1 Kings 20:15-20
2 Kings 6:24; 7:3-7
2 Kings 17:5-6

Shalmaneser V besieged Samaria

See also

2 Kings 18:9-12
2 Kings 18:17,35-36

Sennacherib besieged Jerusalem, unsuccessfully

2 Chronicles 32:1-5
Isaiah 29:5-8; 37:36-37
2 Kings 25:1

Nebuchadnezzar besieged Jerusalem

See also

2 Kings 25:2-11
2 Chronicles 36:17-20

pp Jer 39:1-10

pp Jer 52:4-15

Luke 19:43

Jesus Christ warned that Jerusalem would be besieged and destroyed

See also

Luke 21:20-24

The Roman army destroyed Jerusalem in A.D. 70 using an embankment to besiege the city.

Deuteronomy 28:51-57

Sieges caused great suffering and people adopted desperate measures for survival

2 Kings 6:24-29; 18:27

See also

5208 armies
5214 attack
5229 bed
5245 captain
5246 captivity
5345 influence
5355 invitations
5605 warfare
7215 exile, the
7239 Jerusalem