Bible Verses About Sieges

The city remained under siege into the eleventh year of King Tzidkiyahu.

On the ninth day of the [fourth] month, when the famine in the city was so severe that there was no food for the people of the land,

After these events and this faithfulness of [Hizkiyahu's], Sancheriv king of Ashur came, invaded Y'hudah and besieged the fortified cities, thinking that he would break in [and capture] them.

he consulted his leading men and military advisers about sealing off the water in the springs outside the city. After gaining their support,

a large crowd was gathered to block all the springs and the stream flowing through the countryside. They reasoned, "Why should the kings of Ashur come and find an ample supply of water?"

Then, taking courage, he rebuilt all the broken sections of the wall, raised towers on it, built another wall outside that, strengthened the Millo in the City of David, and made a large quantity of spears and shields.

He appointed military commanders over the people, then gathered them before him in the open space at the city gate and spoke these words of encouragement to them:

"Be strong! Take courage! Don't be afraid or distressed on account of the king of Ashur or all the horde he brings with him. For the One with us is greater than the one with him -

he has human strength, but we have ADONAI our God to help us and fight our battles!"The people took heart at the words of Hizkiyahu king of Y'hudah.

They were shouting loudly in the language of the Judeans to the people of Yerushalayim who were on the wall in order to terrify them and make them fearful, so that they could capture the city.

You have hemmed me in both behind and in front and laid your hand on me.

It is harder to win an offended brother than a strong city; their fights are like the bars of a fortress.

The daughter of Tziyon is left like a shack in a vineyard, like a shed in a cucumber field, like a city under siege."

You saw how many breaches there were in the City of David, you collected water from the lower pool,

you surveyed the houses in Yerushalayim, tearing some down to fortify the wall.

I will strike the inhabitants of this city, humans and animals alike, and they will die of a terrible plague.

the siege-works are already there; they have come to the city to capture it; and the city, by means of sword, famine and plague, is being handed over to the Kasdim fighting against it. What you foretold is being fulfilled; here, you see it, yourself.

for I will stir up and bring against Bavel an alliance of great nations from the country to the north. They will array themselves against her; from there she will be captured. Their arrows are like those of a death-dealing warrior; none will return in vain.

Attack her from every direction! Open her stores of grain! Pile her up like heaps of grain; destroy her completely; leave nothing!

Kill all her bulls! let them go down to be slaughtered! Woe to them! for their day has come, the time for them to be punished."

This is why her young men will fall in her open places, why all her warriors will be silenced on that day," says ADONAI.

Against Bavel I will send foreigners to winnow her and leave her land empty. They will besiege her from every side on the day of disaster.

Raise a standard against the walls of Bavel! Strengthen the guard! Post the sentries! Prepare ambushes! For ADONAI has both planned and accomplished what he promised to do to those living in Bavel.

Show it under siege - build towers against it, raise earthworks against it, set up camps against it, and surround it with battering rams.

Those far away will die from the plague, those nearby will fall by the sword, and whoever stays and is besieged will die from famine. This is how I will spend my fury on them.