Ecclesiastes 9:14
There was a little city with few men in it and a great king came against it and besieged it and built great battlements against it.
2 Samuel 20:15-22
And
2 Kings 6:24-20
But it came about after this, that Ben-hadad king of Aram (Syria) gathered his whole army together and went up and besieged Samaria.
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There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:
There was
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There was
2 Samuel 20:15
And the army of Joab came and besieged Sheba in Abel Beth-maacah, and they built up an assault ramp against the city, and it stood against the outer rampart; and all the people who were with Joab were wreaking destruction to make the wall fall.
2 Kings 6:24
But it came about after this, that Ben-hadad king of Aram (Syria) gathered his whole army together and went up and besieged Samaria.
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2 Samuel 20:16
Then a wise woman cried out from the city, “Hear, hear! Tell Joab, ‘Come here so that I may speak to you.’”
Proverbs 21:22
A wise man scales the city [walls] of the mighty
And brings down the stronghold in which they trust.
A wise man scales the city [walls] of the mighty
And brings down the stronghold in which they trust.
1 Corinthians 12:22
But quite the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are [absolutely] necessary;