Bible Verses About Sieges

So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

After these things, and this faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fortified cities, and thought to win them for himself.

he took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the springs which were outside of the city; and they helped him.

So many people gathered together, and they stopped all the springs, and the brook that flowed through the midst of the land, saying, “Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?”

He took courage, and built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised it up to the towers, and the other wall outside, and strengthened Millo in the city of David, and made weapons and shields in abundance.

He set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the broad place at the gate of the city, and spoke comfortably to them, saying,

“Be strong and courageous, don’t be afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude who is with him; for there is a greater with us than with him.

With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the LORD our God to help us, and to fight our battles.” The people rested themselves on the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

They cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city.

You hem me in behind and before. You laid your hand on me.

A brother offended is more difficult than a fortified city; and disputes are like the bars of a castle.

The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a besieged city.

You saw the breaches of the city of David, that they were many; and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool.

You numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall.

I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both man and animal: they shall die of a great pestilence.

Behold, the mounds, they have come to the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Kasdim who fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence; and what you have spoken has happened; and behold, you see it.

For, behold, I will stir up and cause to come up against Babylon a company of great nations from the north country; and they shall set themselves in array against her; from there she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of an expert mighty man; no one shall return in vain.

Come against her from the utmost border; open her storehouses; cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly; let nothing of her be left.

Kill all her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter: woe to them! for their day has come, the time of their visitation.

Therefore her young men will fall in her streets, and all her men of war will be brought to silence in that day, says the LORD.

I will send to Babylon strangers, who shall winnow her; and they shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her around.

Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for the LORD has both purposed and done that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.

and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it all around.

He who is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he who is near shall fall by the sword; and he who remains and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my wrath on them.