Deuteronomy 20:12 If it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it: (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Deuteronomy 20:19 When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them; for you may eat of them, and you shall not cut them down; for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged of you? (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Deuteronomy 20:20 Only the trees of which you know that they are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down; and you shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it fall. (See NAS RSV NIV)
Deuteronomy 28:52 They shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which Yahweh your God has given you. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Deuteronomy 28:53 You shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom Yahweh your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Deuteronomy 28:55 so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat, because he has nothing left him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your gates. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Deuteronomy 28:57 and toward her young one who comes out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she shall bear; for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your gates. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Joshua 10:31 Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, to Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it. (See RSV)
Joshua 10:34 Joshua passed from Lachish, and all Israel with him, to Eglon; and they encamped against it fought against it. (See RSV)
1 Samuel 23:8 Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
2 Samuel 11:1 It happened, at the return of the year, at the time when kings go out to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)
2 Samuel 11:16 It happened, when Joab kept watch on the city, that he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew that valiant men were. (See NIV)
2 Samuel 20:15 They came and besieged him in Abel of Beth Maacah, and they cast up a mound against the city, and it stood against the rampart; and all the people who were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Kings 15:27 Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha struck him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel were laying siege to Gibbethon. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT NAS RSV)
1 Kings 16:17 Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Kings 20:1 Ben Hadad the king of Syria gathered all his army together; and there were thirty-two kings with him, and horses and chariots: and he went up and besieged Samaria, and fought against it. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
2 Kings 6:24 It happened after this, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his army, and went up and besieged Samaria. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
2 Kings 6:25 There was a great famine in Samaria. Behold, they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
2 Kings 16:5 Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
2 Kings 17:5 Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
2 Kings 18:9 It happened in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
2 Kings 19:32 "Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the king of Assyria,'He shall not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither shall he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it. (See NAS RSV NIV)
2 Kings 24:10 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
2 Kings 24:11 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants did besiege it. (Root in KJV WBS YLT)
2 Kings 25:1 It happened in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it around it. (See NAS RSV NIV)
2 Kings 25:2 So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
2 Chronicles 32:1 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. (See NAS NIV)
2 Chronicles 32:9 After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his servants to Jerusalem, (but he himself laid siege against Lachish, and all his power with him,) unto Hezekiah king of Judah, and unto all Judah that were at Jerusalem, saying, (KJV WBS NIV)
2 Chronicles 32:10 Thus says Sennacherib king of Assyria, In whom do you trust, that you abide the siege in Jerusalem? (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Job 19:12 His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent. (WEB RSV NIV)
Job 30:12 On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, They cast up against me their ways of destruction. (See NIV)
Isaiah 1:8 The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a besieged city. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 21:2 A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease. (Root in KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 23:13 ... (See NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 29:3 I will encamp against you all around you, and will lay siege against you with posted troops. I will raise siege works against you. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 37:33 For this cause the Lord says about the king of Assyria, He will not come into this town, or send an arrow against it; he will not come before it with arms, or put up an earthwork against it. (See NAS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 6:6 For this is what the Lord of armies has said: Let trees be cut down and an earthwork be placed against Jerusalem: sorrow on the false town! inside her there is nothing but cruel ways. (See NAS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 10:17 Gather up your wares out of the land, you who abide in the siege. (WEB JPS ASV NAS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 19:9 I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat everyone the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies, and those who seek their life, shall distress them. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 21:4 Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, with which you fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans who besiege you, without the walls; and I will gather them into the midst of this city. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)
Jeremiah 21:9 He who remains in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who goes out, and passes over to the Chaldeans who besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be to him for a prey. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)
Jeremiah 32:2 For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah's house. (Root in KJV WBS YLT)
Jeremiah 32:24 Behold, the mounds, they are come to the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans 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. (See NAS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 33:4 For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are broken down to make a defense against the mounds and against the sword; (See NAS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 37:5 Then Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt: and when the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings of them, they departed from Jerusalem. (Root in KJV JPS DBY WBS YLT NAS)
Jeremiah 37:11 It happened that, when the army of the Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army, (See NAS)
Jeremiah 39:1 It happened when Jerusalem was taken, (in the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and besieged it; (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 52:4 It happened in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about. (See NAS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 52:5 So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 4:2 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. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 4:3 Take for yourself an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city: and set your face toward it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 4:7 You shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm uncovered; and you shall prophesy against it. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 4:8 Behold, I lay bands on you, and you shall not turn you from one side to the other, until you have accomplished the days of your siege. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 5:2 A third part you shall burn in the fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled; and you shall take a third part, and strike with the sword around it; and a third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 17:17 Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company help him in the war, when they cast up mounds and build forts, to cut off many persons. (See NAS RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 21:22 In his right hand is the lot of Jerusalem to appoint battering-rams, to open the mouth for bloodshed, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering-rams against the gates, to cast mounds, to build siege-towers. (DBY NAS RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 24:2 Son of man, write the name of the day, even of this same day: the king of Babylon drew close to Jerusalem this same day. (See NAS RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 26:8 He shall kill your daughters in the field with the sword; and he shall make forts against you, and cast up a mound against you, and raise up the buckler against you. (See NAS RSV NIV)
Daniel 1:1 In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Jerusalem, and besieged it. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Daniel 11:15 So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mound, and take a well-fortified city: and the forces of the south shall not stand, neither his chosen people, neither shall there be any strength to stand. (See NAS RSV NIV)
Micah 5:1 Now you shall gather yourself in troops, daughter of troops. He has laid siege against us. They will strike the judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Nahum 3:14 Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Zechariah 12:2 "Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of reeling to all the surrounding peoples, and on Judah also will it be in the siege against Jerusalem. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)