1. An Offer of Peace Must Be Made to the City

   Before beginning, Deuteronomy 20:10-12

2. Conducted

   By erecting embankments parallel to the walls of the besieged city, Deuteronomy 20:19, 20, Isaiah 29:3, 37:33

3. Battering-Rams Used In

   See Battering-rams

4. Distress of the Inhabitants During 2 Kings 6:24-29, 25:3, Isaiah 9:20, 36:12, Jeremiah 19:9

5. Cannibalism In 2 Kings 6:28, 29

6. Instances Of

   Of Jericho, Joshua 6:1-27

    Rabbah, 2 Samuel 11:1

    Abel, 2 Samuel 20:15

    Gibbethon, 1 Kings 15:27

    Tirzah, 1 Kings 16:17

   Jerusalem, by the sons of Judah, Judges 1:8

    by David, 2 Samuel 5:6, 9

    by Rezin, king of Syria, and Pekah, son of Remaliah, king of Israel, 2 Kings 16:5

    by Nebuchadnezzar, 2 Kings 24:10, 11, Daniel 1:1, 2 Kings 25:1-3, Jeremiah 52:1-34

    by Sennacherib, 2 Chronicles 32:1-23

   Samaria, 1 Kings 20:1, 2 Kings 6:24, 17:5, 18:9-11