Bible Verses About Sieges

Then David gathered all the people together, and went out against Rabbath: and after fighting, he took it.

In the seven and twentieth year of Asa, king of Juda, Zambri reigned seven days in Thersa: now the army was besieging Gebbethon, a city of the Philistines.

And Amri went up, and all Israel with him, from Gebbethon, and they besieged Thersa.

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

And sending messengers to Achab, king of Israel, into the city,

He said: Thus saith Benadad: Thy silver and thy gold is mine: and thy wives and thy goodliest children are mine.

And he said to Josaphat: Wilt thou come with me to battle to Ramoth Galaad?

So the king of Israel, and Josaphat, king of Juda, went up to Ramoth-Galaad.

Therefore, he sent thither horses, and chariots, and the strength of an army: and they came by night, and beset the city.

And it came to pass, after these things, that Benadad, king of Syria, gathered together all his army, and went up and besieged Samaria.

And as the king of Israel was passing by the wall, a certain woman cried out to him, saying: Save me, my lord, O king.

And he said: If the Lord doth not save thee, how can I save thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress? And the king said to her: What aileth thee? And she answered:

This woman said to me: Give thy son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.

So we boiled my son, and ate him. And I said to her on the next day: Give thy son, that we may eat him. And she hath hid her son.

In the days of Phacee, king of Israel, came Theglathphalasar, king of Assyria, and took Aion, and Abel Domum Maacha, and Janoe, and Cedes, and Asor, and Galaad, and Galilee, and all the land of Nephthali: and carried them captives into Assyria.

And he went through all the land: and going up to Samaria, he besieged it three years.

In the fourteenth year of king Ezechias, Sennacherib, king of the Assyrians, came up against the fenced cities of Juda, and took them.

And they called for the king: and there went out to them Eliacim, the son of Helcias, who was over the house, and Sobna, the scribe, and Joahe, the son of Asaph, the recorder.

Perhaps thou hast taken counsel, to prepare thyself for battle. On whom dost thou trust, that thou darest to rebel?

Then Eliacim, the son of Helcias, and Sobna, and Joahe, said to Rabsaces: We pray thee, speak to us, thy servants, in Syriac: for we understand that tongue: and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the hearing of the people that are upon the wall.

I have cut down, and I have drunk strange waters, and have dried up with the soles of my feet all the shut up waters.

Wherefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of the Assyrians: He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow into it, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a trench about it.

At that time the servants of Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon, came up against Jerusalem, and the city was surrounded with their forts.

And Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon, came to the city, with his servants, to assault it.

And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, the tenth day of the month, that Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon, came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem: and they surrounded it: and raised works round about it.