19 Bible Verses about Attacks On Jerusalem Foretold

And make an attack on it, shutting it in, building strong places against it, and making high an earthwork against it; and put up tents against it, placing engines all round it for smashing down its walls.

And take a flat iron plate, and put it for a wall of iron between you and the town: and let your face be turned to it, and it will be shut in and you will make an attack on it. This will be a sign to the children of Israel.

And let your face be turned to where Jerusalem is shut in, with your arm uncovered, and be a prophet against it.

You are to have a third part burned with fire inside the town, when the days of the attack are ended; and a third part you are to take and give blows with the sword round about it; and give a third part for the wind to take away, and let loose a sword after them.

Ho! Ariel, Ariel, the town against which David made war; put year to year, let the feasts come round:

Make this come to the minds of the nations, make a statement openly against Jerusalem, that attackers are coming from a far country and their voices will be loud against the towns of Judah.

Make war ready against her; up! let us go up when the sun is high. Sorrow is ours! for the day is turned and the shades of evening are stretched out.

But when you see armies all round about Jerusalem, then be certain that her destruction is near.

For the time will come when your attackers will put a wall round you, and come all round you and keep you in on every side,

For see, I will send for all the families of the kingdoms of the north, says the Lord; and they will come, everyone placing his high seat at the way into Jerusalem, and against its walls on every side, and against all the towns of Judah.

And the daughter of Zion has become like a tent in a vine-garden, like a watchman's house in a field of fruit, like a town shut in by armies.

Get your goods together and go out of the land, O you who are shut up in the walled town.

And I will make war on you like David, and you will be shut in by earthworks, and I will make towers round you.

At his right hand was the fate of Jerusalem, to give orders for destruction, to send up the war-cry, to put engines of war against the doors, lifting up earthworks, building walls.

Up! let us go up by night, and send destruction on her great houses.

And your most fertile valleys were full of war-carriages, and the horsemen took up their positions in front of the town.

I will make them take the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters for food, they will be making a meal of one another, because of their bitter need and the cruel grip of their haters and those who have made designs against their life.

For I will get all the nations together to make war against Jerusalem; and the town will be overcome, and the goods taken from the houses, and the women taken by force: and half the town will go away as prisoners, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the town.

See, I will make Jerusalem a cup of shaking fear to all the peoples round about, when Jerusalem is shut in.