Job 19:12

12. Gives the three stages of a siege: invasion; the throwing up of a mound; and, finally, complete investment. In their attacks on walled places both the Assyrians and the Egyptians used to cast up mounds or “banks.”’ 2 Kings 19:32; Isaiah 37:33; Jeremiah 32:24. These not only enabled the besiegers to push their battering rams up to the fortress, but at the same time to scale its walls. The judgments of God, subjecting man to extreme suffering, are often spoken of under the figure of a siege. Isaiah 29:3.