Thematic Bible: Conducted by erecting embankments parallel to the walls of the besieged city

And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with watch-posts, and I will raise forts against thee.

Verse Concepts

Attacks On Jerusalem Foretold

When thou shalt besiege a city many days, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by lifting up an axe against them; for thou canst eat of them; and thou shalt not cut them down, for is the tree of the field a man that it should be besieged? Only the trees which thou knowest are not trees for meat, thou mayest destroy and cut them down, and build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it fall.

Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.

Verse Concepts

Attacks On Jerusalem Turned Back