Fenced Cities Invested By 2 Kings 18:13

Threatened as a Punishment Deuteronomy 28:52

Described As

Encamping against 2 Samuel 12:28, 2 Chronicles 32:1

Pitching against 2 Kings 25:1

Compassing about with armies 2 Kings 6:14, Luke 21:20

Setting in array against Jeremiah 50:9

Being against round about Jeremiah 51:2

Often Lasted for a Long Time 2 Kings 17:5

Great Noise and Tumult Of, Alluded To Joel 2:5

Those Engaged In

Built forts and mounts Ezekiel 4:2, 26:8

Dug a trench round the city Luke 19:43

Invested the city on every side Ezekiel 23:24

Cut off all supplies 2 Kings 19:24

Frequently laid ambushes Judges 9:34

Called upon the city to surrender 1 Kings 20:2, 3, 2 Kings 18:18, 20

Employed battering rams against the walls Ezekiel 4:2, 26:9

Cast arrows and other missiles into the city 2 Kings 19:32

Often suffered much during Ezekiel 29:18

The Jews forbidden to cut down fruit trees for the purpose of Deuteronomy 20:19, 20

Extreme difficulty of taking cities by, alluded to Proverbs 18:19

Cities Invested By

Repaired and newly fortified beforehand 2 Chronicles 32:5, Isaiah 22:9, 10, Nahum 3:14

Supplied with water beforehand Nahum 3:14

The inhabitants of, cut off beforehand supplies of water outside, useful to besiegers 2 Chronicles 32:3, 4

Were strictly shut up Joshua 6:1

Walls of, defended by the inhabitants 2 Samuel 11:20, 21, 2 Kings 18:26, 2 Chronicles 32:18

Sometimes used ambushes or sorties Jeremiah 51:12

Often suffered from famine 2 Kings 6:26-29, 25:3, Ezekiel 6:12

Often suffered from pestilence Jeremiah 21:6, 32:24

Often demanded terms of peace 1 Samuel 11:1-3

Frequently taken by ambush Judges 9:43, 44

Frequently taken by assault Joshua 10:35, 2 Samuel 12:29

Frequently helped by allies 1 Samuel 11:11, 23:5

Inhabitants of, exhorted to be courageous 2 Chronicles 32:6-8

Cities Taken By

Given up to pillage Jeremiah 50:26, 27

Inhabitants of, often put to the sword Joshua 10:28, 30, 32, 35, Jeremiah 50:30

Frequently broken down Judges 9:45

Frequently destroyed by fire Joshua 8:19

Sometimes sown with salt Judges 9:45

Sometimes called after the name of the captor 2 Samuel 12:28

Mentioned in Scripture

Jericho Joshua 6:2-20

Ai Joshua 7:2-4, 8:1-19

Makkedah Joshua 10:28

Libnah Joshua 10:29, 30

Lachish Joshua 10:31, 32

Eglon Joshua 10:34, 35

Hebron Joshua 10:36, 37

Debir Joshua 10:38, 39

Shechem Judges 9:34, 45

Thebez Judges 9:50

Jabesh-gilead 1 Samuel 11:1

Keilah 1 Samuel 23:1

Ziklag 1 Samuel 30:1, 2

Rabbah 2 Samuel 11:1, 12:26-29

Gibbethon 1 Kings 16:15

Tirzah 1 Kings 16:17

Samaria 1 Kings 20:1, 2 Kings 6:24, 17:5

Ramoth-gilead 1 Kings 22:4, 29

Cities of Israel in Galilee 2 Kings 15:29

Cities of Judah 2 Kings 18:13

Jerusalem 2 Kings 24:10, 11, 25:1, 2

Illustrative Of

The omnipresence of God Psalm 139:5

The judgments of God Micah 5:1

Zion in her affliction Isaiah 1:8