Siege

“When you approach a city to fight against it, you are to make an offer of peace.”

“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?”

“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.”

“I will camp in a circle around you; I will besiege you with towers and set up siege works against you.”

“So this is what the LORD says about the king of Assyria: ‘He will not enter this city or shoot an arrow into it. He will not come before it with a shield or build up a siege ramp against it.”

“Some time later, Ben-hadad king of Aram assembled his entire army and marched up to besiege Samaria.”

“By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.”

“They carve out what is on the right, but they are still hungry; they eat what is on the left, but they are still not satisfied. Each one devours the flesh of his own offspring.”