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Verses
46 results- Verse2 Kings 25:2And the city was kept under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.
- VerseJeremiah 52:5And the city was kept under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.
- VerseJeremiah 10:17Gather up your belongings from this land, you who live under siege.
- VerseEzekiel 4:7You must turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared, and prophesy against it.
- VerseEzekiel 4:2Then lay siege against it: Construct a siege wall, build a ramp to it, set up camps against it, and place battering rams around it on all sides.
People
2 results- PersonJeremiahPriest of Anathoth called before birth to uproot and to plant; the weeping prophet of Jerusalem's fall who bought a field in the siege and announced the new covenant written on…
- PersonSennacheribKing of Assyria whose siege of Jerusalem in 701 BC ended with the angel of Jehovah in the camp — and whose own annals boast of shutting Hezekiah up "like a bird in a cage"…
Places
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7 results- WordH4692 מָצוֹר · mâtsôwr (Hebrew)something hemming in, i.e. (objectively) a mound (of besiegers), (abstractly) a siege, (figuratively) distress. The Hebrew word stands 25 times in the original text.
- WordH6696 צוּר · tsûwr (Hebrew)to cramp, i.e. confine (in many applications, literally and figuratively, formative or hostile). The Hebrew word stands 38 times in the original text.
- WordH2583 חָנָה · chânâh (Hebrew)properly, to incline. The Hebrew word stands 143 times in the original text.
- WordH2314 חָדַר · châdar (Hebrew)properly, to inclose (as a room), i.e. (by analogy,) to beset (as in a siege). The Hebrew word stands 1 time in the original text.
- WordH4694 מְצוּרָה · mᵉtsûwrâh (Hebrew)a hemming in, i.e. (objectively) a mound (of siege), or (subjectively) a rampart (of protection), (abstractly) fortification. The Hebrew word stands 8 times in the original text.
Topics
1 resultProphecies
2 results- ProphecyTyre's Mainland Destruction by NebuchadnezzarEzekiel specifically named Nebuchadnezzar as the first invader against Tyre, predicting a siege with horses, chariots, siege towers, and mounts.
- ProphecyAssyria Will Not Enter JerusalemIsaiah prophesied that Sennacherib's Assyrian army would not enter Jerusalem, shoot an arrow at it, or build siege works against it.
Apologetics
2 results- ApologeticsTyre: Tracing Ezekiel 26 Verse by VerseEzekiel 26:3-14 names specific outcomes for Tyre. This entry traces each clause against Nebuchadnezzar's 13-year siege (c. 585-573 BCE) and Alexander's 332 BCE causeway - with…
- ApologeticsThe Destruction of Jerusalem (70 CE): The Synoptics vs. JosephusJesus' Matthew 24 / Luke 21 oracle against Jerusalem laid beside Josephus's eyewitness account of Titus's 70 CE siege - with the dating question fully steelmanned.
Featured studies
3 results- StudyThe Fall of JerichoNo siege engine, no battering ram: a city falls to a trumpet and a shout, and the book stages Rahab's faith against Achan's sin in the same campaign.
- StudyJeremiah: the Study GuideForty years against the fall of Jerusalem: and the deepest promise in the Old Testament, spoken while the siege ramps were rising.
- StudyNahum: the Study GuideThe sequel to Jonah: the city that repented is judged a century and a half later. God who is slow to anger and will not at all acquit the wicked, the siege of Nineveh in the most kinetic battle…
Voices
1 resultApocrypha (study resources)
9 results- Study resource2 Maccabees 10:33But they that were with Maccabeus laid siege against the fortress courageously four days.
- Study resource1 Maccabees 10:76Then Jonathan laid siege unto it: whereupon they of the city let him in for fear: and so Jonathan won Joppa.
- Study resource1 Maccabees 9:64Then went he and laid siege against Bethbasi; and they fought against it a long season and made engines of war.
- Study resource1 Maccabees 11:61From whence he went to Gaza, but they of Gaza shut him out; wherefore he laid siege unto it, and burned the suburbs thereof with fire, and spoiled them.
- Study resource2 Maccabees 10:18And because certain, who were no less than nine thousand, were fled together into two very strong castles, having all manner of things convenient to sustain the siege,
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H4692מָצוֹר mâtsôwr — something hemming in, i.e. (objectively) a mound (of besiegers), (abstractly) a siege, (figuratively) distressH6696צוּר tsûwr — to cramp, i.e. confine (in many applications, literally and figuratively, formative or hostile)H2583חָנָה chânâh — properly, to inclineH2314חָדַר châdar — properly, to inclose (as a room), i.e. (by analogy,) to beset (as in a siege)H4694מְצוּרָה mᵉtsûwrâh — a hemming in, i.e. (objectively) a mound (of siege), or (subjectively) a rampart (of protection), (abstractly) fortificationG4912συνέχω synéchō — to hold together, i.e. to compress (the ears, with
a crowd or siege) or arrest (a prisoner)