26 Bible Verses about Siege
Want to know what the Bible says about Siege? Here are 26 Bible verses about Siege from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.
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Deuteronomy 20:10-12 NIV
10 When you march up to attack a city, make its people an offer of peace. 11 If they accept and open their gates, all the people in it shall be subject to forced labor and shall work for you. 12 If they refuse to make peace and they engage you in battle, lay siege to that city.
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Deuteronomy 20:19-20 NIV
19 When you lay siege to a city for a long time, fighting against it to capture it, do not destroy its trees by putting an ax to them, because you can eat their fruit. Do not cut them down. Are the trees people, that you should besiege them? 20 However, you may cut down trees that you know are not fruit trees and use them to build siege works until the city at war with you falls.
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Isaiah 29:3 NIV
I will encamp against you on all sides;
I will encircle you with towers
and set up my siege works against you.
I will encircle you with towers
and set up my siege works against you.
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Isaiah 37:33 NIV
“Therefore this is what the Lord says concerning the king of Assyria:
“He will not enter this city
or shoot an arrow here.
He will not come before it with shield
or build a siege ramp against it.
or shoot an arrow here.
He will not come before it with shield
or build a siege ramp against it.
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2 Kings 6:24-29 NIV
24 Some time later, Ben-Hadad king of Aram mobilized his entire army and marched up and laid siege to Samaria. 25 There was a great famine in the city; the siege lasted so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a quarter of a cab of seed pods for five shekels.
26 As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, “Help me, my lord the king!”
27 The king replied, “If the Lord does not help you, where can I get help for you? From the threshing floor? From the winepress?” 28 Then he asked her, “What’s the matter?”
She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son so we may eat him today, and tomorrow we’ll eat my son.’ 29 So we cooked my son and ate him. The next day I said to her, ‘Give up your son so we may eat him,’ but she had hidden him.”
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2 Kings 25:3 NIV
By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city had become so severe that there was no food for the people to eat.
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Isaiah 9:20 NIV
On the right they will devour,
but still be hungry;
on the left they will eat,
but not be satisfied.
Each will feed on the flesh of their own offspring :
but still be hungry;
on the left they will eat,
but not be satisfied.
Each will feed on the flesh of their own offspring :
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Isaiah 36:12 NIV
But the commander replied, “Was it only to your master and you that my master sent me to say these things, and not to the people sitting on the wall—who, like you, will have to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine? ”
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Jeremiah 19:9 NIV
I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh because their enemies will press the siege so hard against them to destroy them.’
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2 Kings 6:28-29 NIV
28 Then he asked her, “What’s the matter?”
She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son so we may eat him today, and tomorrow we’ll eat my son.’ 29 So we cooked my son and ate him. The next day I said to her, ‘Give up your son so we may eat him,’ but she had hidden him.”
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2 Samuel 11:1 NIV
In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war, David sent Joab out with the king’s men and the whole Israelite army. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem.
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2 Samuel 20:15 NIV
All the troops with Joab came and besieged Sheba in Abel Beth Maakah. They built a siege ramp up to the city, and it stood against the outer fortifications. While they were battering the wall to bring it down,
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1 Kings 15:27 NIV
Baasha son of Ahijah from the tribe of Issachar plotted against him, and he struck him down at Gibbethon, a Philistine town, while Nadab and all Israel were besieging it.
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1 Kings 16:17 NIV
Then Omri and all the Israelites with him withdrew from Gibbethon and laid siege to Tirzah.
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Judges 1:8 NIV
The men of Judah attacked Jerusalem also and took it. They put the city to the sword and set it on fire.
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2 Samuel 5:6 NIV
The king and his men marched to Jerusalem to attack the Jebusites, who lived there. The Jebusites said to David, “You will not get in here; even the blind and the lame can ward you off.” They thought, “David cannot get in here.”
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2 Samuel 5:9 NIV
David then took up residence in the fortress and called it the City of David. He built up the area around it, from the terraces inward.
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2 Kings 16:5 NIV
Then Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel marched up to fight against Jerusalem and besieged Ahaz, but they could not overpower him.
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2 Kings 24:10-11 NIV
10 At that time the officers of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon advanced on Jerusalem and laid siege to it, 11 and Nebuchadnezzar himself came up to the city while his officers were besieging it.
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Daniel 1:1 NIV
In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.
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