From Nave’s Topical Bible
Siege
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 30Passages listed
- 10Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- An offer of peace must be made to the city before beginning aDeuteronomy 20:10–12
- Conducted by erecting embankments parallel to the walls of the besieged cityDeuteronomy 20:19Deuteronomy 20:20Isaiah 29:3Isaiah 37:33
- Battering-rams used in
- See Battering-rams
- Distress of the inhabitants during a2 Kings 6:24–292 Kings 25:3Isaiah 9:20Isaiah 36:12Jeremiah 19:9
- Cannibalism during a2 Kings 6:282 Kings 6:29
- INSTANCES OF
- JerichoJoshua 6
- Rabbah2 Samuel 11:1
- Abel2 Samuel 20:15
- Gibbethon1 Kings 15:27
- Tirzah1 Kings 16:17
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- Jerusalem
- By the sons of JudahJudges 1:8
- By David2 Samuel 5:62 Samuel 5:9
- By Rezin, king of Syria, and Pekah, son of Remaliah, king of Israel2 Kings 16:5
- By Nebuchadnezzar2 Kings 24:102 Kings 24:11Daniel 1:12 Kings 25:1–3Jeremiah 52
- By Sennacherib2 Chronicles 32:1–23
- Samaria1 Kings 20:12 Kings 6:242 Kings 17:52 Kings 18:9–11
The passages, in Bible order (30)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Deuteronomy 20:10–12
When you approach a city to fight against it, you are to make an offer of peace.
Commentary on Deuteronomy 20:10–122 voices
When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
Proclaim peace unto it - Interpreters are greatly divided concerning the objects of this law. The text, taken in connection with the context, (see Deu 20:15-18), appears to state that this proclamation or offer of peace to a city is only to be understood of those cities which were situated beyond the limits of the seven anathematized nations, because these latter are commanded to be totally destroyed. Nothing can be clearer than this from the bare letter of the text, unless some of the words, taken separately, can be shown to have a different meaning.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832Evangelical
- Deuteronomy 20:19
When you lay siege to a city for an extended time while fighting against it to capture it, you must not destroy its trees by putting an axe to them, because you can eat their fruit. You must not cut them down. Are the trees of the field human, that you should besiege them?
Commentary on Deuteronomy 20:191 voice
The Logos in his goodness, richly equipped with love of humankind, teaches that it is not right to cut down cultivated trees, still less to cut crops for purposes of vandalism before harvest, and even less still to destroy, root and branch, cultivated fruit, whether of the land or of the soul. It does not even allow the razing of enemy land. Yes, and farmers find their profit from the law.
Clement of Alexandria· The Stromata Book 2, 215Patristic
- Deuteronomy 20:20
But you may destroy the trees that you know do not produce fruit. Use them to build siege works against the city that is waging war against you, until it falls.
Commentary on Deuteronomy 20:201 voice
Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Joshua 6:1
Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the Israelites. No one went out and no one came in.
Commentary on Joshua 6:12 voices
Now Jericho was straitly shut up, because of the children of Israel,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
This verse is strictly parenthetical. It is inserted to explain the declaration commenced Jos 5:14, and interrupted by Joshuas question and obeisance Jos 5:14-15, but resumed in Jos 6:2. Straitly shut up - See the margin, i. e., not only shut, but barred and bolted.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
- Judges 1:8
Then the men of Judah fought against Jerusalem and captured it. They put the city to the sword and set it on fire.
Commentary on Judges 1:81 voice
Now the children of Judah had fought against Jerusalem, and had taken it,.... Which accounted for their carrying Adonibezek thither.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 2 Samuel 5:6
Now the king and his men marched to Jerusalem against the Jebusites who inhabited the land. The Jebusites said to David: “You will never get in here. Even the blind and lame can repel you.” For they thought, “David cannot get in here.”
Commentary on 2 Samuel 5:61 voice
And the king and his men went to Jerusalem,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 2 Samuel 5:9
So David took up residence in the fortress and called it the City of David. He built it up all the way around, from the supporting terraces inward.
Commentary on 2 Samuel 5:91 voice
So David dwelt in the fort,.... The strong hold of Zion, which he took: and called it the city of David; from his own name, to keep up the memory of his taking it, and of his habitation in it: and David built round about, from Millo and inward; built a wall about it, and enlarged the place, increased the buildings both within and without.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 2 Samuel 11:1
In the spring, at the time when kings march out to war, David sent out Joab and his servants with the whole army of Israel. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah, but David remained in Jerusalem.
Commentary on 2 Samuel 11:11 voice
And it came to pass, that after the year was expired,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 2 Samuel 20:15
And Joab’s troops came and besieged Sheba in Abel-beth-maacah and built a siege ramp against the outer rampart of the city. As all the troops with Joab were battering the wall to topple it,
Commentary on 2 Samuel 20:151 voice
And they came and besieged him in Abel of Bethmaachah,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 1 Kings 15:27
Then Baasha son of Ahijah of the house of Issachar conspired against Nadab, and Baasha struck him down at Gibbethon of the Philistines while Nadab and all Israel were besieging the city.
Commentary on 1 Kings 15:271 voice
And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 1 Kings 16:17
Then Omri and all the Israelites marched up from Gibbethon and besieged Tirzah.
Commentary on 1 Kings 16:171 voice
And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him,.... He, and the army under him, broke up the siege of that place, and marched to Tirzah; which, according, to Bunting (c) were thirty six miles distant from each other: and they besieged Tirzah; the royal city, in which Zimri was. (c) Travels, &c. p. 162.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 1 Kings 20:1
Now Ben-hadad king of Aram assembled his entire army. Accompanied by thirty-two kings with their horses and chariots, he marched up, besieged Samaria, and waged war against it.
Commentary on 1 Kings 20:11 voice
And Benhadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 2 Kings 6:24–29
Some time later, Ben-hadad king of Aram assembled his entire army and marched up to besiege Samaria.
Commentary on 2 Kings 6:24–291 voice
"Some time later King Ben-hadad of Aram mustered his entire army; he marched against Samaria and laid siege to it." This is that Ben-hadad who had been condemned to death by God; and Ahab had received the order to execute him. But he spared his …
Ephrem the Syrian· ON THE SECOND BOOK OF KINGS 6:24, 373Patristic
- 2 Kings 6:28
Then the king asked her, “What is the matter?” And she answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son, that we may eat him, and tomorrow we will eat my son.’
Commentary on 2 Kings 6:282 voices
"Some time later King Ben-hadad of Aram mustered his entire army; he marched against Samaria and laid siege to it." This is that Ben-hadad who had been condemned to death by God; and Ahab had received the order to execute him. But he spared his …
Ephrem the Syrian· ON THE SECOND BOOK OF KINGS 6:24, 373Patristic
And the king said unto her, what aileth thee?....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 2 Kings 6:29
So we boiled my son and ate him, and the next day I said to her, ‘Give up your son, that we may eat him.’ But she had hidden her son.”
Commentary on 2 Kings 6:292 voices
So we boiled my son, and did eat him,.... Thus what was predicted, by way of threatening, began to be accomplished, Deu 28:53; see Gill on Deu 28:53, and of which there were other instances of a like kind at the siege of Jerusalem, both by Nebuchadnezzar and Vespasian: and I said unto her on the next day; after her child had been wholly ate up: give thy son, that we may eat him; according to agreement: and she hath hid her son; either to save him alive, or to eat him herself alone.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
"Some time later King Ben-hadad of Aram mustered his entire army; he marched against Samaria and laid siege to it." This is that Ben-hadad who had been condemned to death by God; and Ahab had received the order to execute him. But he spared his …
Ephrem the Syrian· ON THE SECOND BOOK OF KINGS 6:24, 373Patristic
- 2 Kings 16:5
Then Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to wage war against Jerusalem. They besieged Ahaz but could not overcome him.
Commentary on 2 Kings 16:51 voice
Then Rezin king of Syria, and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem to war,.... To fight with Ahaz, moved to it by the Lord, to chastise Ahaz for his idolatry, 2Ki 15:37. but could not overcome him; so as to take Jerusalem, and set up another king there, as their scheme was, Isa 7:5 though they had both at other times got great advantages over him, and slew many of his people, and carried them captive, see 2Ch 28:5.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed